More and more, it may seem that the answer to common health quandaries leads to a single culprit: our guts. The gut microbiome – the ecosystem of bacteria and other tiny organisms that live in our ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...