Researchers have investigated the role that estrogen plays in signaling more gut pain, and it isn't working alone.

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a chronic condition that causes gut pain and bloating, and women are far more likely to ...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) affects more than 10% of the global population and is expected to become the fifth leading cause of death worldwide within the next two decades. Perhaps surprisingly, ...

Estrogen may cause certain colon cells, shown in green in this microscope image, to release a hormone called peptide YY. This, in turn, causes a different type of colon cell, colored magenta, to pump ...

Cholesterol clears the brain once metabolized to 24-hydroxycholesterol, but that is not the only way 24HC can be beneficial, according to Silvia Maioli at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. In ...

ER+/PR+ breast cancer is a subtype of ER positive breast cancer where the tumor cells express both estrogen receptors (ER) and progesterone receptors (PR) on the surface. As the most common type of ...

(Left) Distribution of gender among never-smoking lung cancer patients analyzed in this study with predominance of females. (Middle) Screening results for genetic mutations in never-smoking lung ...