http://jama.jamanetwork.com/ en-us Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:48:04 GMT Silverchair editor@jama.jamanetwork.com webmaster@jama.jamanetwork.com http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleID=1103996 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT Torpy JM, Lynm C, Golub RM. <span class="paragraphSection">Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) such as ulcerative colitis and Crohn disease make the bowel (intestine) inflamed, irritated, swollen, and unable to function in a healthy way. Ulcerative colitis affects the large intestine (the colon) and the rectum but does not involve the small intestine (the part of the bowel that connects the stomach to the colon and that is responsible for almost all the body's food digestion and absorption of nutrition). Crohn disease affects both the small intestine and the colon.</span> 307 1 104 104 10.1001/jama.2011.1889 http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleID=1103996