Experts believe that 1 in 8 people who get food poisoning while traveling may end up with a chronic condition that can linger for months or even years.

People's digestive systems respond differently to gallbladder removal. Some may experience more significant changes than others. Here's what you need to know.

Bile salts are natural surfactants present in the human gastrointestinal tract. Therefore, it is essential to consider their effect on the dissolution and crystallization tendency of oral drug ...

Diarrhea in children may cause food and stool to pass faster ... or putty-colored stools. Generally, bile salts from the liver give stool its normal brown color. A child may have clay-colored stools ...

Having white stool after diarrhea might result from taking antidiarrheal drugs. However, it could also be a symptom of a serious medical condition, such as liver disease or a blocked bile duct.

Certain bile acids affect C. difficile germination or vegetative growth. We hypothesised that loss of gut microbiota-derived bile salt hydrolases (BSHs) predisposes to CDI by perturbing gut bile ...