Scientists have discovered that collecting stool samples at home is as life-saving as invasive colonoscopy procedures.

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 ...

A Congressional bill restores funding for most NASA space science missions, but there is no money for returning samples ...

ORLANDO -- Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) reported mostly favorable responses with the use of mail-order kits for stool sample collections, according to a survey study. Among survey ...

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 ...

Carley Millhone is a writer and editor based in the Midwest who covers health, women's wellness, and travel. Her work has appeared in publications like SELF, Greatist, and PureWow. Jay N. Yepuri, MD, ...

A friend of mine once said that there’s more history in a square yard of Kansas soil than in all the history books in all the world’s libraries. That might have been a bit of hyperbole, but he had a ...