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

This multicentric study involved four CRC population-based screening programmes of Northern (Alto Vicentino, Bussolengo and Feltre Local Health Units) and Central Italy (Florence ISPO Cancer ...

Depositing your poo to be stored on ice for use later in life could soon become the norm, if scientists get their way. Gut health researchers want to create a bank of stool samples, in a similar ...

NICE has recommended quantitative faecal immunochemical testing (FIT) using HM-JACKarc or OC-Sensor to guide referral for adults with signs or symptoms suggestive of colorectal cancer. For full list ...

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Thank you to everyone who has provided a faecal sample from their cat for our study. As you know, we have been looking at the intestinal flora of cats and whether certain factors affect the kind of ...

Chandigarh: Central University of Punjab at Bathinda has distributed faecal test kits to detect cancer, especially stomach cancer, among locals of four villages — Jhumba, Baho, Yatri and Ghudda — ...

Poo transplants are offered to patients suffering debilitating gut conditions. But people the hopes that the treatment could cure a swathe of other conditions has led to a surge in people performing ...

Would you be willing to have someone else’s blood coursing through your veins to help you stay alive? Would you be happy to take someone’s kidney if your own one had failed? Well then, what about this ...

Colorectal cancer may be associated with a variety of symptoms, including blood in faeces. Small amounts of hidden blood in faeces (known as faecal occult blood) can show that there is bleeding from ...