When we think about health, we often focus on skin, energy, or weight. But if you’re ignoring what’s happening in the toilet ...

In a new Health survey, a third of adults in the U.S. said they had poop abnormalities in the last month. Here's what they're ...

Type 3: Sausage-shaped stool with cracks on the surface Type 4: Thinner, more pencil-like stools that are smooth and soft Type 5: Soft blobs with clear edges Type 6: Mushy pieces with ragged edges ...

The 52-year-old truck driver in my office had rushed in a few minutes earlier. He had passed a large black stool (well known as an indicator of internal bleeding) and feared the worst. A test for ...

Doctors are warning that certain stool shapes and colors, such as narrow and bloody poops, could be a sign of colorectal cancer, which is spreading rapidly among young people in the US.

Both are common stool blood screening tests that, when abnormal, require a follow-up colonoscopy to evaluate for precancerous and cancerous colorectal growths known as polyps.

In a retrospective study of more than 200,000 Veterans, the researchers found that patients who received colonoscopy more than 13 months after an abnormal stool blood test were up to 1.3 times ...

Mortality was also higher among patients who underwent colonoscopy 19 to 21 months (HR = 1.52; 95% CI, 1.51-1.99) and 22 to 44 months (HR = 1.39; 95% CI, 1.03-1.88) after an abnormal stool test ...

The study population included 20,581 adults (mean age, 63.6 years; 51.4% women; 86% white) from 38 health care organizations who had an abnormal stool-based screening test result for CRC, with ...