Study finds little agreement across 21 direct-to-consumer tests ...

After Russell Jordan sent a stool sample through the mail to the microbiome company Viome, his idea of what he should eat shifted. The gym owner in Sacramento, California, had always consumed large ...

New research has found that different gut health testing companies can provide wildly different results from the same fecal ...

Many pet owners know the importance of bringing a stool or fecal sample to their pets' regular veterinary checkups, but not everyone does it regularly after puppy and kitten stages have passed. The ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am an 80-year-old male in excellent health. I’ve had a colonoscopy every five years following my first in my mid-50s, in which five benign polyps were found. I was told colonoscopies ...

ORLANDO -- Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) reported mostly favorable responses with the use of mail-order kits for stool sample collections, according to a survey study. Among survey ...

TAMPA (BLOOM) – Our stool tells us a lot about ourselves. From nutrient absorption to how well our bodies metabolize medication, analyzing our poop can provide us with loads of information. Gayle ...