A nutritionist has explained why certain symptoms should not be ignored and the gut problems they could indicate ...

Your gut health can have rollover effects to other parts of your body. When your gut is happy and healthy, you may notice that other parts of your body feel happy and healthy too. And when your gut ...

One small 2004 study included people with IBS and abnormal lactulose breath test (LBT)—a sign of SIBO ... People with fat malabsorption—meaning the intestine can't properly absorb fat—will have ...

Colonoscopies are widely used, but there is another option available: fecal tests. Both types of test attempt to find cancers and large polyps — growths on the wall of the colon — that ...

The FDA has approved the Cologuard Plus test, a noninvasive stool DNA test to screen adults 45 and older at average risk for colorectal cancer (CRC). 1 “To meaningfully improve outcomes in colorectal ...

Exact Sciences won Food and Drug Administration approval on Friday for an improved version of a stool-based screening test for colon cancer that should result in fewer cancer-free patients ...

Clostridioides difficile is a notoriously nasty intestinal bug, with few effective treatments and no approved vaccines. But the same technology that enabled the first COVID-19 vaccines has shown ...

This group had higher pre-test probability of SIBO, because if the whole cohort of 169 patients are considered and if it is assumed that IBS patients without bloating or flatulence did not have ...

Occasional changes in stool (poop) colors usually occur as a result of the food you eat. A persistent change in the color of your stool could also indicate an underlying health condition and ...

This test detects microscopic amounts of human blood protein in the stool, which is a sign of bleeding that could be coming from early cancer or from a polyp that could develop into cancer if left ...