A GRANDPA has been forced to eat just one meal a day to make his lifesaving medicine last, as the UK faces a major shortage of the drug. Paul Elcombe, 62, from Kent, takes Creon three times a day ...

A Kent man says he is restricting himself to one meal a day to make his medication last due to a shortage of the drug. Paul Elcombe, 62, from Hartley, takes Creon three times a day after having ...

Pancreatin is a supplement that helps your body digest food when your own pancreas doesn’t naturally produce enough digestive enzymes to do it. It works by digesting food as it passes through the gut.

In the early 1950s, experiments by two teams of researchers, Salvador Luria working with Mary Human and Joe Bertani working with Jean Weigle, showed that some strains of bacteria were more ...

The digestive system is the series of tubelike organs that convert our meals into body fuel. There are about 30 feet (9 meters) of these convoluted pipeworks, starting with the mouth and ending ...

The human body digests carbohydrates, proteins and fats. These carbohydrates, proteins and fats are digested into nutrients and absorbed into the body. Enzymes are biological catalysts which speed ...

The selective bond-breaking powers of enzymes bring new versatility for building nanoparticles with a wide range of technical and medical potential. The selective bond-breaking powers of enzymes ...

Anxious parents have told the Daily Express of an NHS medicine supply crisis - as they desperately hunt supplies of a life-saving drug cystic fibrosis (CF) sufferers must take with every meal.

All living things depend on millions of chemical reactions that happen constantly. Chemical reactions that keep you alive happen fast! When you eat food, breathe, play, and grow, all of these are ...

Digestive disorders are medical conditions that affect how the digestive system functions. They can be acute or chronic. Gastrointestinal reflux disease (GERD), irritable bowel syndrome (IBS ...

A cystic fibrosis patient has been forced to ship in crucial medication from India - so she can eat due to national shortages. Lois Ffrench, aged 23, was unable to get her regular prescription of ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. What did you have for breakfast today and where is that food now? Well, depending on how long ago ...