US astronauts Suni Williams and Barry Wilmore have been stranded in low earth orbit onboard the International Space Station ...

The age range for screening lowered in recent years to include younger individuals as the incidence rate of colon cancer has shifted. Dr. Stephen Amann, a gastroenterologist at Digestive Health ...

In December of that year, she saw a big gush of bright red blood after a bowel movement and then consistent bleeding almost every time she went to the bathroom. When Dutton mentioned those warning ...

There is a new and less invasive option to test for colon cancer and it doesn’t require a stay at the hospital or mailing a stool sample.

“By the time symptoms appear — such as blood in the stool — the cancer is usually quite advanced.” Shukla’s warning comes ...

The common diabetes drug metformin works partly by excreting sugar from the bloodstream into the intestines, where gut ...

Scientists are developing a less invasive portable device that would use blood samples to detect colorectal cancers.

If you have a positive result, that means that it showed blood in the stool. (In this case, “positive” is not necessarily good!) A negative test result means that no blood was found in the ...

Breastfeeding can promote lower blood pressure among children, a new study says.Longer-term breastfeeding appears to ...