A simple stool sample may hold a clearer record of what you eat than a food diary ever could. In a new study, researchers ...

Banking samples of your own poop in your youth and then transplanting them back when you're old might be a key to healthy aging, scientists suggest. Stool samples frozen and stored when a person is ...

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 ...

Using new technology, researchers at UC Davis and Stanford University are able to study microbes and metabolism in different parts of the human digestive system for the first time. (Getty Images) Most ...

Different dairy foods appear to influence the gut’s bacteria and wall-attached microbial community in distinct ways.

Carley Millhone is a writer and editor based in the Midwest who covers health, women's wellness, and travel. Her work has appeared in publications like SELF, Greatist, and PureWow. Jay N. Yepuri, MD, ...

Consumers simply prick a finger, place a drop of blood on a sample card, sealed into an envelope (provided) and mail it to ...

What do all the microbes living rent-free in your gut have to do with disease risk? Perhaps a lot. A groundbreaking analysis of decades-old stool and blood samples from the early AIDS epidemic ...

The thought of transplanting another person’s poop into your colon may sound unpleasant, and understandably so. Feces are a smelly mixture of water, undigested food, dead and living bacteria, and ...