A crusade to combat the proliferation of poop in Colorado’s backcountry entered a new frontier this week with the creation of a “Clean 14” initiative focusing on the state’s iconic 14,000-foot peaks.

Climbers ascending Mount Everest will be expected to collect their poop in doggy bags and carry their waste back to base camp, according to new regulations from local officials as they attempt to ...

You probably don’t think of your poop as art or a book, but each time you finish doing your, um, business, your fecal matter tells a story. That’s because we are what we eat, and whatever we eat ...

Madeline Lauf, founder and CEO of Begin Health, discovered that she didn’t need to take medicine for life to fix her digestive health issues. She just needed prebiotics. The discovery led her to start ...

Hi, I’m Trisha Pasricha, a gastroenterologist and the Ask a Doctor columnist at The Washington Post. I completed my internal medicine residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and fellowships in ...