Despite thousands of years of pant-crapping history, there’s a surprising amount we don’t know about diarrhea. There’s a couple ways we’ve figured out how to treat the symptom. But lots of scientists’ ...

Robert Burakoff, MD, MPH, is a board-certified gastroenterologist who serves as vice chair of Ambulatory Services at Lower Manhattan Hospital and professor of medicine at the Weill Cornell Medical ...

Poop transplants work as well as antibiotics to treat a common and deadly cause of diarrhea, and perhaps even better, researchers reported Saturday. Their small and unusual study suggests that doctors ...

It may be hard to consider poop having healing benefits to the human body, but a new study found that fecal transplants can do a better job in curing bacterial infections than some antibiotics. The ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Keep in mind that this was a very small trial in Norway. Scientists write research letters to medical journals when they don't ...

Talking about poop (stool), especially its colour and consistency, is not really one of the most comfortable dinner-table ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The CDC and USDA are investigating a diarrhea outbreak linked to a pet store chain The CDC and USDA are ...