Finding blood in your stool can be an alarming experience, and medical experts emphasize that this symptom deserves immediate attention. While some causes may be manageable with simple treatments ...

Cystic fibrosis can also cause constipation and abdominal pain. The lifelong condition is usually diagnosed during childhood.

Other tests require you to collect stool samples on more than one day. You then send the samples, in a special container and envelope, directly to your doctor's office for analysis with a ...

Researchers at the Institute for Systems Biology have developed MEDI, a groundbreaking method that detects food-derived DNA in stool samples to determine dietary habits. This non-invasive ...