Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's easy to see your body aging on the outside – wrinkles, dark spots, gray hair, the whole shebang – but as we grow older, our ...

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has recently been diagnosed with diverticulitis, which has been cited as the cause of his ...

At the age of 70, 70 percent of the population will have diverticulosis. However, this doesn’t mean that all of these patients will ever experience diverticulitis. So, what’s the difference, and how ...

While a human fetus is developing, the vitelline duct connects the intestines to the umbilical cord. When this duct does not properly close, the small intestine walls create a pouch or a condition ...

An article in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology examines the distribution of colonic diverticula. 1. The research team examined patients undergoing screening colonoscopy at the University of ...

Diverticulitis can cause rectal bleeding. In fact, diverticular bleeding is the most frequent cause of lower gastrointestinal bleeding. Share on Pinterest Grace Cary/Getty Images Diverticulitis is a ...

Patients with diverticular disease have a 33% increased risk of overall cancer, researchers have found, which is equivalent to one extra cancer case per 16 patients with diverticular disease followed ...

Could smoking be a risk factor for diverticular disease? The authors examined data from 35,809 Swedish women who participated in a large mammography screening trial. Data on smoking and other ...

That long-standing advice to avoid nuts, seeds, and corn if you have diverticulitis? It turns out those dietary restrictions might have been unnecessary all along. Emerging research is challenging ...

It's easy to see your body aging on the outside – wrinkles, dark spots, gray hair, the whole shebang – but as we grow older, our insides also inevitably change. By the time most people reach the ripe ...