Study finds little agreement across 21 direct-to-consumer tests ...

New research has found that at-home gut microbiome tests lack standardization, resulting in different results from the same ...

New research has found that different gut health testing companies can provide wildly different results from the same fecal ...

The results were even more disparate than the team had expected. Of the more than 1,200 families of microbes identified by all the tests combined, just three microbe families were present in all seven ...

"It has been a paradox that we repeatedly find the same bacterium in connection with colorectal cancer, while at the same time it is a completely normal part of the gut in healthy people," says ...

Colorectal cancer is highly treatable when caught early—and FIT tests make screening easier than ever with a simple at‑home ...

A HEALTHY teenager died from multiple organ failure after a “tummy bug” triggered a rare kidney condition, an inquest heard.

Constipation affects your skin as well as your digestion. It causes ageing inflammation and leaves your face puffy and dull.

The FDA has cleared a multiplex polymerase chain reaction test designed to detect 11 clinically relevant gastrointestinal pathogens from a single stool sample.The Xpert GI Panel (Cepheid) can identify ...

More cases of colorectal cancer are detected at an early stage with screening. This is according to new research based on data from over 278,000 60-year-olds, who were randomly selected to undergo one ...

The REBOUND Study aims to understand how "hallmarks of ageing" are affected following bowel cancer treatment in older people.