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Inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD, describes Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, two chronic diseases that cause inflammation in the intestines. IBD, which affects about 3 million adults in the United States, is an autoimmune disorder -; a condition in which the body's immune system attacks healthy tissues.
Hundreds of Normal Community High School students walked out of school Wednesday, part of a national campaign of students calling for tougher gun safety laws.
Two Bloomington-Normal high schoolers are inviting you to participate in one of their Indian culture’s most important celebrations – Holi, the Festival of Colors.
This latest work is part of an ongoing effort to improve surgical care in sub-Saharan Africa, where 93 percent of the population lacks access to safe, effective, and timely surgical, obstetric, and anesthesia care. That puts the region at the epicenter of a global crisis that leaves 5 billion people without the lifesaving surgical care needed to treat injuries and disease, according to the 2015 Lancet Commission on Global Surgery. Studies find high levels of excess morbidity and mortality resulting from poor surgical quality in African countries, where patients are twice as likely to die af...