With a rising prevalence of gastrointestinal issues among Americans, Live It Up broke down the five most common conditions.

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Additionally, the researchers also conducted brain scans in 30 adult men and women, finding that the same “dessert stomach” region of the brain was activated upon consuming a sugar solution.

Doctors note several key symptoms that might indicate a stomach ulcer. The most common include a burning pain in your stomach, feeling unusually full after eating, and unexplained weight loss.

To investigate whether a similar mechanism was at play in humans, the researchers fed volunteers a sugar solution – and found that the same region of the brain reacted to the substance.

The big meal is over, you're full, but the craving for sweets remains. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research in Cologne have now discovered that what we call the "dessert ...

As if cold and flu season weren't bad enough, this winter is turning out to be a particularly bad one for stomach bugs. By Dec. 11, 495 outbreaks of norovirus had been reported nationwide ...

Stomach cancer rates also vary by region. Compared with people living in the contiguous United States, women and men in Hawaii are roughly 33 percent and 28 percent more likely to be diagnosed ...

An empty adult stomach starts as a folded pouch about the size of a soda can — 0.5 liter (16 ounces) — and during a meal it can grow to the size of a 2 liter (0.5 gallon) plastic soda bottle ...

The camera will probe your esophagus, stomach, and the top end of your intestines to see if stomach paralysis or something else – like an ulcer – is causing your symptoms. Ultrasound.

In 2021, Alyssa Burks, now 33, became perpetually fatigued, developed heartburn, and started having trouble swallowing. Tests later revealed she had stage-four stomach (a.k.a. gastric) cancer. Now ...

Blasting a patch of patients’ stomach lining with thermal energy curbed hunger and cut pounds, researchers reported in a small pilot study to be presented at the annual Digestive Disease Week ...