"No one specific food or drink is likely to cause constipation on its own for most individuals — however, your daily eating ...

Hard stool, which is often difficult or painful to pass, is a common symptom of constipation. Learn more about the causes and treatment of hard stool here.

You might be surprised by what your trips to the bathroom can say about your health, as gastroenterologists explain.

The NHS warns that chronic constipation can lead to dangerous fecal impaction, and Healthline recommends seeking medical attention if it's been a full week without a bowel movement.

"I went from a minor toothache to almost dead in about three days. So any time I hear someone question whether or not to get ...

Keeping a healthy mix of friendly microbes in the gut—known as eubiosis—is crucial for good health. When that delicate ...

A fecal transplant performs as well as antibiotics in treating people with a bacterial infection that can cause ...

Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) could be considered as first-line therapy for primary Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI).

Currently, C. difficile is first treated with antibiotics like vancomycin, against which the bacteria has not developed a ...

The study’s lead author, Orlando DeLeon at the University of Chicago, said it was a "wake-up call to the field that maybe we shouldn't willy-nilly put large bowel microbes into different parts ...

Fecal microbiota transplants (FMT) have been touted as a potential treatment for a variety of conditions, from inflammatory bowel diseases, obesity, and type 2 diabetes to autism.

Fecal microbiota transplants are common medical procedures dating back decades that can help restore the gut health of people with colon infections - but scientists now warn of newly discovered ...