Fecal occult blood testing (FOBT) has been proposed as an alternative to colonoscopic screening for the detection of colorectal cancer, but requires multiple stool samples because occult bleeding is ...

Home gut health tests can give inaccurate and misleading results and require greater regulation to ensure they are safe and ...

Scientists are still trying to identify what a healthy gut microbiome looks like, but new research may offer a clue.

As the name suggests, a faecal microbiota transplant introduces gut microbes from a carefully screened healthy donor’s stool ...

Scientists have identified a new way to distinguish healthy guts from diseased ones and track how some illnesses progress by measuring how gut bacteria interact with one another. According to a study ...

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 ...