Alex Lyons has Ulcerative Colitis one of the most common forms of inflammatory bowel disease.

If you have ulcerative colitis (UC), your first line of treatment will likely be medication. But even with medication, sometimes symptoms continue to flare, tanking your quality of life along the way.

"Due to the timing of diagnosis during this critical period of physical, intellectual, and psychosocial development, the higher rate of colectomy, and their longer lifespan without a colon, it is ...

Greater access to innovative treatments could be linked to a drop in patients requiring surgery for a type of inflammatory bowel disease, a 20-year study suggests. The number of patients using ...

While most patients with ulcerative colitis (UC) get adequate symptom relief with drug therapy and lifestyle modifications, a minority do not -- either because the medications don't work, or they do ...

UEG 2025 Novel Agent Promising for Refractory Ulcerative Colitis Once-daily oral obefazimod met the primary endpoint of clinical remission at 8 weeks in a highly refractory population of ulcerative ...

What Is Infusion for Ulcerative Colitis? If your doctor has recommended infusion therapy, this is probably because standard treatment hasn’t helped relieve symptoms caused by moderate-to-severe ...

NEW YORK A new study led by Mayo Clinic researchers found that ulcerative colitis patients had a 41% reduction in colectomy when treated with infliximab for one year, according to a study published in ...

Ulcerative colitis usually affects the large intestine and causes continuous inflammation. Crohn's disease can affect any part of the digestive tract and often shows patchy inflammation. Smoking can ...

Here's what colitis is, what leads to it and how the condition is most commonly treated.