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I am a 76-year-old male who is in relatively good health. For the past six months, I have been experiencing diarrhea on and ...

A fossilized larva dating back over half a billion years has been discovered with its brain, digestive system, and nerve ...

As Christmas Eve draws near, we're reminded of the tireless elves behind the scenes, toiling in workshops to bring festive ...

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The sigmoid colon stores fecal matter until you have a bowel movement. Some conditions affecting the sigmoid colon can cause pain in the lower left abdomen. The sigmoid colon is the section of the ...

The ascending colon is on the right side of the abdomen and starts at the cecum. It absorbs water and nutrients from partially digested food and turns it into stool. In this article, learn more about ...

Herbivores face the dilemma that the level of feed intake is negatively related to factors that determine digestive efficiency, such as thoroughness of ingesta comminution by chewing, and retention of ...

When summer’s bounty of bugs, seeds, and nectar starts to wane, most birds in Colorado seek warmer climes with good food to offer. But one group of birds sticks it out year-round, subsisting on ...

The new study reports the highest naturally occurring blood sugar concentrations in mammals ever observed, a finding that suggests bats have evolved strategies to survive, and even thrive, with this ...