This digestive disorder can cause pain and constipation, but lifestyle and diet changes can help reduce symptoms.

For some people, mild cases of diverticulitis may resolve on their own. For others with mild to moderate cases of the disease, treatment typically involves antibiotics. Patients are also advised ...

J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2007;22(9):1360-1368. Our study has several limitations. The most important limitation is that the comparative studies we included in our review were not randomized ...

Probiotics can reduce antibiotic-associated diarrhea but don't fully restore gut microbiota. Further studies are essential to ...

Learn why antibiotics are not effective against influenza, and what better options exist for preventing and treating the flu.

For healthy older adults, using antibiotics is not associated with an increased risk of cognitive impairment or dementia, according to a new study.

Superbugs, bacteria that are immune to multiple antibiotics, pose a great challenge to modern medicine. Researchers have now identified a weakness in the bacterial machinery that drives antibiotic ...

Merck will discontinue its drug for a bacterial infection that can lead to fatal diarrhea, the U.S. Food and Drug ...

Disadvantages to using topical antibiotics include the increased costs and potential for local irritation, contact dermatitis and anaphylaxis. Topical agents including the OTC antimicrobials or ...

diff infection in people with UC? In people without UC, C. diff infections most commonly result from taking certain antibiotics. But people with UC can often get C. diff infections even when they ...

Experimentally determined structure of 2-nitroimidazole hydrolase and its comparison with other related enzymes shed light on the mechanism of action of an unusual antibiotic degrading enzyme in ...