England is expanding wastewater surveillance to detect virus outbreaks early, giving hospitals more time to respond before ...

During the first few years of the COVID-19 pandemic, the virus SARS-CoV-2 was detected in an increasing number of non-human ...

A simple stool sample may hold a clearer record of what you eat than a food diary ever could. In a new study, researchers ...

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 ...

An AI-powered stool test designed to assess early autism risk in children will be piloted for free in Hong Kong, as its developers pursue international regulatory expansion. The Chinese University of ...

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 ...

Chinese University's faculty of medicine on Wednesday launched what it described as pioneering technology designed to assess the risk of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in children. Developed in ...

Blood-filled test tubes hidden under clothing and in false-bottom suitcases led Chinese authorities to smuggling rings that shipped more than 100,000 blood samples from pregnant women for fetal sex ...

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 ...