A 64-year-old Chinese man who felt a strange sensation in his stomach and went to the doctor was shocked to discover that a toothbrush had been stuck in his intestines for 52 years.

He underwent emergency surgery and was eventually discharged eight days after the operation An 83-year-old man was hospitalized after his small intestine partially burst through his skin.

Carey Hart is once again apologizing to wife P!nk, after a stunt landed him in the hospital.

THE small intestine comprises the longest portion of the alimentary canal and yet receives small consideration in the diagnosis of intestinal tumors. The reason is the rarity of neoplasms in the sm ...

High-voltage electrical pulses to the upper region of the small intestine in a minimally invasive procedure can significantly improve type 2 diabetes, researchers reported at the Digestive Disease ...

Should an item manage to pass through the stomach, it then has to move through 12 feet of small intestines before entering the large intestines.

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have found that the small intestine grows in response to pregnancy in mice. This partially irreversible change may help mice support a pregnancy and ...

Your small intestine is around five metres long, making it the longest section of your digestive tract. Although it is longer than your large intestine it has a smaller diameter.

However, it has not been established whether the morphology of the mucosa of the small intestine is abnormal in vitamin B 12 deficiency not associated with primary disease of the small intestine ...

As far back as the 16th century, we were mapping out the murky territory of the human small intestine in anatomy books. We know, for example, that this digestive tract is—on average—about 6 ...