Alexander Lake, DO, a gastroenterologist at AdventHealth, joined Gayle Guyardo, host of the globally syndicated health and ...

Snakes get rid of waste in the same way that other animals do. Once everything has been completely digested, the waste goes ...

The workings of the small intestine have long been a mystery, but now we are discovering the hidden roles this organ plays in ...

A man was hospitalized after more than three feet of his small intestine broke through a two-inch hole in his abdomen where ...

Those afflicted often experience gastrointestinal symptoms like stomach pain, bloating, constipation, gas and diarrhea. But ...

Medically reviewed by Marla Anderson, MD Small intestine cancer is a rare cancer that develops in the tissues of the small intestine, a 20-foot-long organ that connects the stomach to the large ...

Hart shows off his gnarly stomach stitches in additional photos, before praising his wife for taking "charge at the hospital" and their kids for visiting him. Carey Hart is once again apologizing ...

The small intestine sends what’s left to the large intestine. The large intestine’s job is to absorb any leftover nutrients. Then it recycles extra water from the stew-like chyme.

Carey Hart thanked his wife Pink for her support after a gruesome injury where he “severed [his] small intestine from his colon.” “Welp, I ran out of talent,” the motocross and off-road ...

Stock image of a cockroach. Credit : Getty Images A 23-year-old man who sought medical care for pain and indigestion discovered that the source of his agony was a cockroach in his small intestine.

The first of three sections of the small intestine, the duodenum, produces large quantities of mucus to protect the intestinal lining from acid in the chyme.

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have found that the small intestine grows in response to pregnancy in mice. This partially irreversible change may help mice support a pregnancy and ...