Laine Hicks turned a dirty job into a thriving business, Holy Crap Poop Scoop, in Monroe. Discover how he found success in pet waste removal.

The National Cancer Institute estimates that more than 150,000 people will receive a colorectal cancer diagnosis in 2025, and factors like gender, age, and family health history can increase your risk ...

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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 ...

Most people have a preferred way of communication—phone, text, email—but bare-nosed wombats have an unusual way of relaying information. The Australian marsupial communicates by … there's no delicate ...

You may be sitting on – so to speak – a very valuable asset that scientists would love to get their hands on: your poop. As well as blood, plasma and organs, you can now donate fecal samples to stool ...

Everyone poops. But how often? Given the fact that modern society has, for good reason, sequestered the ritual to isolation, it’s normal to wonder what it’s like—and the frequency with which it ...

If you’ve ever been struck by urgent signals from your bowels in the middle of a work meeting, a first date, or a milestone event, it may have felt like the worst possible time to need to go. You ...

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Research shows that up to 20% of Americans deal with chronic constipation. If you’re part of that no-sign-up-required club, you’ve probably tried some of the buzzier remedies—drinking coffee, eating ...

Blood in the stool is not a direct symptom of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), but some IBS complications may cause short-term rectal bleeding. Symptoms of IBS most commonly include abdominal cramping, ...