Antibiotic use has been linked to changes in the gut’s bacterial species that can last for four to eight years 1. The gut ...

There’s a useful chart that can help you determine if your stool falls into a healthy or not-so-healthy category.

Every dog owner has done it. You pick it up. You squint at it. You think, "Is that… normal?" And then you immediately wish you had never looked that closely in the first place. But here's the truth.

Bulk-forming laxatives like Metamucil take 12 to 72 hours to work. Suppositories can cause a bowel movement within 15 to 60 minutes. Laxatives increase or induce defecation (discharge of feces from ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan have identified two gut bacteria that appear to work together to trigger chronic constipation. The microbes, Akkermansia muciniphila and Bacteroides ...

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan have found two gut bacteria working together that contribute to chronic constipation. The duo, Akkermansia muciniphila and Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron, ...