Surgery to remove the colon and rectum can help eliminate UC symptoms, but you may still have gastrointestinal symptoms later on. Learn what to expect from the procedure.

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.

Treatment failure occurs when an ulcerative colitis medication isn’t helping symptoms. Most important, know that it’s not your fault. Learn what to do next.

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. Subscribe to our newsletter for the ...

Listen Photo via ShutterStock) Surgical removal of the colon was associated with lower mortality than drug therapy in ulcerative colitis patients. " title ...

Researchers in Canada found using steroids before ulcerative colitis surgery is associated with a higher risk for postoperative sepsis and clotting, Gastroenterology & Endoscopy news reported. The ...

Unfortunately the cause of ulcerative colitis is unknown, although both genetic and the environmental causes have been proposed. Most patients with ulcerative colitis do not have anyone else in the ...

"Medical Journeys" is a set of clinical resources reviewed by physicians, meant for the medical team as well as the patients they serve. Each episode of this 12-part journey through a disease state ...

"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 ...

ROCHESTER, Minn -- A new study led by Mayo Clinic researchers has found that ulcerative colitis patients had a 41 percent reduction in colectomy after a year when treated with infliximab, according to ...

People with ulcerative proctitis, a milder and more limited form of ulcerative colitis, are not at higher risk of developing rectal cancer than the general population. This is shown in a new Swedish ...