Scientists have developed a breakthrough method to track diet using stool metagenomic data.

Medically reviewed by Jay N. Yepuri, MD Disimpaction is a procedure to treat fecal impaction caused by a large, hardened lump ...

Many doctors use the Bristol stool chart to help evaluate the health of bowel movements. The chart is a form scale, meaning ...

1. The use of fecal microbiota, live-jslm (RBL; REBYOTA®) in the prevention of recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection (rCDI) in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) was associated with ...

When bowel movements are infrequent or irregular ... In severe cases, prolonged stool retention can lead to fecal impaction, which may require medical intervention,” said Dr Jindal. Dr Rahul Dubbaka, ...

Adenomatous polyps typically do not cause symptoms unless they progress to colon cancer. Even then, there may be no sign of a problem until the malignancy is advanced. This is why colon cancer ...

Reductions were seen in median Gastrointestinal Symptom Rating Scale-Irritable Bowel Syndrome score ... with type 1 diabetes with moderate-to-severe gastrointestinal symptoms, fecal microbiota ...

but patients must undergo unpleasant bowel preparation and then be anesthetized during the procedure. Fecal blood tests can also be used to screen for colon cancer, but those must be done every ...

Colon cancer cases are soaring in young people, alarming experts and leaving doctors scrambling for answers as to why. Now, a study published by a team of international researchers in the journal ...

She was later an Air Force officer. By Clay Risen Nancy Leftenant-Colon, a granddaughter of enslaved people who in 1948 became the first Black nurse to serve in the regular U.S. armed forces ...