There’s a reason surgeons wear masks and gloves. The last thing you want is to get crap in someone’s body. That is, unless you are one of the two UC Davis Medical Center neurosurgeons who very ...

Someone’s poop could be another person’s medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital, as part of an experimental new treatment that has prospective patients lining up and friends offering to donate their ...

The time you spend on the pot can offer health clues, says an expert doctor on what's normal, what's not, and why it matters.

Researchers from universities in Canada recently conducted an experiment to determine how fecal microbiota transplantation capsules or poop pills can be used to treat patients with Clostridium ...

An emerging treatment for a common hospital-acquired infection could be (slightly) less gross in the future. Researchers have found that delivering a fecal microbiota transplant (FMT) in a pill—a poop ...

Holding in poop on occasion is not harmful, but doing this often can lead to constipation, impaction, inflammation, and more severe complications. People who hold in their poop too often may start to ...

Are you going to poop immediately after having your meal A doctor explains how this can be a sign of your poor gut health ...

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