Ulcerative Colitis News & Features
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Can You Really Know What to Expect in the Long Haul?
Ulcerative colitis is a relapsing-remitting disease, so it’s hard to predict symptoms over time. Here’s what to expect and how to recognize remission.
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To Fast or to Feast?
These tips will help you enjoy the foods at social events when you have ulcerative colitis and still steer clear of a flare.
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My Life With Ulcerative Colitis
An amateur athlete makes peace with his ulcerative colitis diagnosis and refuses to let his condition undermine his goals.
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Ghosted After a UC Diagnosis: How to Respond
Did a friend or potential romantic partner stop taking to you after your ulcerative colitis diagnosis? Learn why it happens and what you can do about it.
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Why You Need an Ulcerative Colitis Support Community
When you have ulcerative colitis (UC), it can help to find people who understand what you’re going through. Learn why you should find your UC support community and how to make it happen.
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What a Doctor Wants You to Know About Ulcerative Colitis
From treatment to remission, symptoms to support, here’s what a doctor who treats it every day wants you to know about ulcerative colitis.
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What Happens When You Stop Taking UC Meds?
Medicines can help keep inflammation in check, but you may not like taking them. Learn when you can quit your meds and what happens when you do.
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How Can Emotional Support Animals Help With Ulcerative Colitis
Learn how emotional support animals can help with the stress that often comes with ulcerative colitis flare-ups.
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How to Advocate for Yourself With UC
When you have ulcerative colitis (UC), you have to be able to stand up for yourself when it comes to getting the proper medical care and making sure you’re taking care of yourself. Learn how -- from doctors who treat UC every day.
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UC: Can the Autoimmune Protocol Diet Help?
Can a diet called the autoimmune protocol, or AIP, improve your ulcerative colitis? Possibly. Some people say elimination diets, like AIP and others, put their disease in remission.
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Can Marijuana or CBD Help With Ulcerative Colitis?
Can marijuana or CBD help manage the symptoms of ulcerative colitis?
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UC: How Can It Affect Your Sex Life?
If you have ulcerative colitis, you might be wondering whether it’s possible to have a satisfying sex life. The short answer is yes.
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Fecal Transplants May Help Ease Painful Colitis
The team behind the small study said the strategy may work by introducing millions of healthy bacteria into the dysfunctional tract.
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Arthritis Drug Promising for Ulcerative Colitis
But treatment isn't yet approved by FDA to treat inflammatory bowel condition
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This Soothes Tough-to-Treat Colitis in Study
Eased symptoms, healed colons in 1 in 4 patients
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Study: Fecal Transplants May Help Colitis
After 8 weeks of fecal transplants, some people with tough-to-treat ulcerative colitis had no rectal bleeding or diarrhea, according to a new study. WebMD has the details.
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Eagles Co-Founder Glenn Frey Dies at Age 67
Eagles Co-Founder Glenn Frey Dies at Age 67
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Expert Q&A: What You Need to Know About Ulcerative Colitis
When you find out you have ulcerative colitis, you’ll want to learn as much as possible about this condition. Get answers to questions about this type of inflammatory bowel disease.
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Tips for Living With an Ileostomy
If you need to get an ileostomy, you’ll have lots of questions about how to care for it and how it will affect your life. Use these tips to help you make everyday life easier.
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How Can I Manage Ulcerative Colitis When I Travel?
Just because you’ve been diagnosed with ulcerative colitis doesn’t mean you have to give away your frequent flier miles. WebMD shares tried-and-true travel tips will have you booking that dream vacation now.
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Surgery May Beat Drugs for Ulcerative Colitis: Study
Patients 50 and up with advanced disease benefited the most
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Sleep Duration Linked to Ulcerative Colitis Risk in Study
Getting too much, too little may raise chances of inflammatory bowel condition
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Entyvio Approved for Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn's Disease
Two chronic gastrointestinal diseases
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Ulcerative Colitis: Social Relationships and Dating
Friendship can be a good medicine when you have ulcerative colitis. Learn how to keep your social life going when you don’t always feel like going out.
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Ulcerative Colitis: Social Relationships and Dating
Friendship can be a good medicine when you have ulcerative colitis. Learn how to keep your social life going when you don’t always feel like going out.
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