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 ...

New research has found vegetarians are one-third less likely than meat-eaters to develop diverticular disease, according to a report in the British Medical Journal. Diverticular disease, affecting the ...

Diverticular disease, a condition characterised by the formation of small pouches (diverticula) in the colon wall, poses significant clinical challenges worldwide. Although often asymptomatic, ...

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 ...

The first year of the COVID pandemic significantly altered how patients and providers treated diverticulitis, causing a significant drop in operations to manage the disease but a corresponding ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you regularly deal with abdominal pain, it could be a sign of a gastrointestinal issue that becomes more common with age.

Trick or treat? Something I won't be hearing at my own door this Halloween. Myself and the other misers of our village will once again be shunning anyone ringing the bell in search of sugar.