Study finds little agreement across 21 direct-to-consumer tests ...

New research has found that different gut health testing companies can provide wildly different results from the same fecal ...

New research has found that at-home gut microbiome tests lack standardization, resulting in different results from the same ...

The results were even more disparate than the team had expected. Of the more than 1,200 taxonomic groups of microbes identified by all the tests combined, just three microbial genera were present in ...

Commercial home tests that analyze stool samples promise insights into a person’s gut microbiome. But how reliable are those results? A study published in Communications Biology delivers a sobering ...

Scientists have long known that vast colonies of bacteria, viruses and other microorganisms—a population collectively called the microbiome—live on and inside the human body. In just the past few ...

State health officials have issued a health advisory for the water off Midtown Beach in Palm Beach, after a March 2 test ...

Colorectal cancer is one of the cancers where, if found early, it has a 91% chance of survival for the patient. If you find ...

The Florida Department of Health in Volusia County is urging swimmers, surfers and others to avoid the water at a couple of spots along the coast due to health concerns. Water testing completed on Feb ...

Researchers in Turkey say they have unearthed archaeological evidence that the Romans used human feces in medical treatments. Although Roman texts described the practice, this is the first time that ...

Claire knew her son had a parasite in his stomach. Her doctors, however, thought otherwise. Yes, the little boy would get stomach pains after eating, but without diarrhoea, there probably wasn’t much ...