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 ...

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

Changes in the way that humans live and eat have resulted in tremendous alterations in the gut microbiome, especially over the past few decades. These changes have been linked to increased rates of ...

A 'smart toilet' in development uses artificial intelligence (AI) to scan stool for consistency and presence of blood — and early evidence suggests it is more accurate than patient self-reporting, a ...