Constipation is often treated as a simple plumbing problem, too little movement, too much delay. But emerging research suggests that, in some people, the culprit may not be sluggish muscles or faulty ...

New findings suggest CT colonography is almost as good at identifying certain polyps as a traditional colonoscopy. Doctors tested a CT colonography without asking patients to take a laxative. Instead ...

The health service constitutes constipation as being bowel movements that are fewer than three each week, which can lead to symptoms like painful cramps in the tummy area, straining to poo, or not ...

As women are more likely to experience constipation they are more likely to seek solutions such as the fibremaxxing trend on ...

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A new condition of "bacterial constipation" has been discovered, which might lead to better treatments if going to the loo gives you a hard time ...