A pharmacist explained why your stool softener doesn’t seem to actually help when you’re constipated — and how to repurpose ...

Most of it ends up in landfills, where it generates planet-warming methane. And, all those poop bags can shed microplastics into the environment. Here’s how you can reduce that environmental poo ...

The team analyzed whale poop for iron, known to be especially limited in the Southern Ocean, as well as copper.

Cephalopods that eat more bivalves, such as scallops, are more likely to have white poop, whereas octopuses that feast on red crabs tend to excrete red feces.

Holding in poop on occasion is not harmful, but doing this often can lead to constipation, impaction, inflammation, and more severe complications. People who hold in their poop too often may start ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Flu expert says bird flu virus may be spread by infected feces blowing in the wind. Dr. Michael Osterholm is a medical detective and Director of the Center for Infectious Disease ...

A lawsuit filed against Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital alleges a surgical sponge was negligently left inside a patient after surgery, according to a complaint filed in McHenry County ...

Four people have been killed in a renewed boundary dispute involving two communities in Ivo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. NAN reports that the land dispute is between the Umuobor and ...

We use them to clean the dishes we eat off, but your kitchen sponge is a damp ... of holes and pockets – each providing a niche for a community of microbes to settle down in.

Qin Rao, MD, is a board-certified physician based in New York City. He currently works as a gastroenterologist and hepatologist at Manhattan Gastroenterology. Dietary fiber is a type of ...

The birth control or contraceptive sponge is a polyurethane disc soaked ... then bear down and exhale (as if you were trying to poop). Bearing down helps the muscles inside the vaginal canal ...