Study finds major methodological differences across seven direct-to-consumer stool tests, producing taxonomic profiles as variable as those between individuals — limiting clinical use.

New research has found that at-home gut microbiome tests lack standardization, resulting in different results from the same ...

Scientists have long known that vast colonies of bacteria, viruses and other microorganisms—a population collectively called the microbiome—live on and inside the human body. In just the past few ...

US companies providing gut-microbiome home-testing kits can give consumers very different results. That’s the finding of ...

When given the opportunity to complete a use-at-home cancer screening kit, more people get screened for cancer. For example, in one trial focusing on screening for cervical cancer using these types of ...

Objectives To evaluate the performance of the acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance system in Ghana’s Upper West Region between 2021 and 2023 against WHO benchmarks in order to identify strengths ...

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 have discovered that gut-born bacteria may hold the secret for treatments of everything from IBD to Parkinson’s disease. Now they just need samples from the people living in the most ...

TARTU, Estonia — Medications prescribed years ago may still be influencing the bacteria living in your gut today, according to new research that challenges the assumption that drug effects end when ...

Introduction Undernutrition during pregnancy is linked to adverse pregnancy and birth outcomes and has downstream effects on the growth and development of children. The gut microbiome has a profound ...