A study suggests that habitual meat intake may relate to a higher risk of ulcerative colitis flares. Image credit: Kriangkrai Thitimakorn/Getty Images The prevalence of IBD is rising, and current ...

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 ...

An AI-powered stool test designed to assess early autism risk in children will be piloted for free in Hong Kong, as its developers pursue international regulatory expansion. The Chinese University of ...

Health insurance companies send all kinds of things in the mail: brochures about benefits, branded items such as coasters and duffel bags, and reminders to get certain health tests done. Some have ...

Editor’s note: This story was updated to clarify recommendations for colorectal cancer screening. As a gastroenterologist, the most meaningful part of my job is preventing colorectal cancer by ...

A large real-world study found that fewer than half of adults who started colorectal cancer (CRC) screening with an at-home stool test completed the recommended repeat test, creating gaps in ...

Scientists at the University of Geneva have created the first detailed catalogue of gut bacteria at the subspecies level, unlocking powerful new ways to detect colorectal cancer. By applying machine ...

Q. My doctor prescribed a Cologuard test instead of a colonoscopy. No one mentioned how often Cologuard could result in false positive test results, as mine did. So, a colonoscopy was necessary after ...

Over half of all Massachusetts beaches had an unsafe level of fecal bacteria last year, and 47 beaches reached the danger zone at least a quarter of the time they were tested, according to an ...