It's easy to feel lost in the vast wilderness that is stomach-or more accurately, abdominal-pain. But doctors have learned to read our midsection like a map. And where our pain radiates from often ...

Scientists have discovered that oestrogen activates pathways in the colon that trigger pain and make the female gut more ...

A 63-year-old woman showed up at the emergency department of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston with severe stomach pain, nausea, and vomiting. She told doctors that for the past month she had ...

Women are dramatically more likely than men to suffer from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a chronic condition causing ...

The dismissive phrase “it’s all in your head” takes on new meaning when you understand that women literally process pain through different neural pathways than men. This isn’t about pain tolerance or ...

A woman's abdominal discomfort turned out to be caused by a build up of food in her stomach. And the treatment involved diet soda. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

I am a woman in my 80s. Is it safe to take 400 mg of ibuprofen a day? I take it with breakfast. I never take more than this. — J.S.B. ANSWER: The biggest concern I have with daily ibuprofen use in a ...

Crohn’s disease, a long-term inflammatory bowel disease that currently cannot be cured, causes repeated flare-ups of symptoms including diarrhoea, stomach pain, anal pain, weight loss and blood or ...

You'd probably expect your stomach to feel sore the day after you took a core strengthening class. But if your abdominal area feels sore even if you haven't exercised, you should look further for the ...

The biggest concern with daily ibuprofen use in a woman in her 80s is damage to the stomach, including ulcers.