As spring break crowds swarm the Texas coast, most Gulf beaches are testing clean for fecal‑indicator bacteria. Still, a handful of sites around Galveston and the Bolivar Peninsula are flashing ...

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 ...

White specks in poop can come from undigested food like seeds, vegetables, or nuts. You might have parasites if you also have symptoms like diarrhea, itching around the anus, or stomach pain. Your ...

It’s a fact of life. For those who own dogs, most know almost everything about their pooch’s poop. Every stool is inspected, bagged and then carefully binned. On any day, they can tell you if the ...

If we’re being totally honest here, most people are a little obsessed with poop. It makes sense. While talking about poop is considered taboo in pop culture, it’s a consistent activity in your ...

Something was terribly wrong with the young woman’s liver, but doctors had no idea what. By Lisa Sanders, M.D. “Drinking makes me sick,” the 19-year-old woman told her family the night before Easter ...

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 ...

It’s news that could pass for satire: LA’s Department of Transportation is urging riders not to poop on city buses. As policy goes, the “please don’t” approach is a stinker. Mayor Karen Bass, the City ...

As melting snow reveals weeks’ worth of uncollected dog waste, frustration at the state of the sidewalks has boiled over. As melting snow reveals weeks’ worth of uncollected dog waste, frustration at ...

The complaints are piling up. A putrid sidewalk so blanketed with poop that it’s barely passable has become a symbol of the Big Apple’s winter crap crisis — as complaints over dog waste reach record ...