A man in the Chinese province of Henan has sued his girlfriend after she put him through an intense childbirth simulation ...

The man in Henan province had to be hospitalised and have part of his small intestine removed after undergoing the painful ...

Boyfriend undergoes imitation labour to prove ‘love’ for girlfriend, suffers pain, vomiting, loses section of small intestine ...

In an ill-fated attempt to prove his devotion, a man in China ended up in hospital and lost a section of his small intestine after enduring a three-hour labour pain simulation at his girlfriend's ...

The microbiome of the small intestine is distinct from the colon, and likely plays important roles beyond digestion. An overgrowth of bacteria in this region, most commonly a result of slow ...

Small intestine cancer is a rare cancer that develops in the tissues of the small intestine, a 20-foot-long organ that connects the stomach to the large intestine (colon). Its job is to break down ...

Purdue University scientists isolated it from layers of tissue called small-intestine submucosa, or SIS, after they discovered more than a decade ago that the small intestine possessed unusual healing ...

The small intestine is a very dynamic environment; food passes through depending on the varying speed of a person’s digestion, and the pipe expands and contracts.

Many of us tend to overlook the importance of the colon, or large intestine, compared to organs like the liver, kidneys, and ...

A Kobe University team found that glucose is excreted into the small intestine, where bacteria transform it into short-chain fatty acids. The endocrinologist OGAWA Wataru explains: “The production of ...

Partially digested food arrives in the intestine from the stomach. Digested food is absorbed in the small intestine. This means that it passes through the wall of the small intestine and into the ...

Ah, love—the ultimate test of patience, devotion, and, apparently, one’s ability to survive simulated childbirth. A man in ...