Credit: Reese Pharmaceutical. ColoTest is designed to detect blood in stool, which may be an early indication for colorectal cancer, diverticulitis, gastrointestinal disorders, colitis or polyps.

Fecal specimen collection in the clinical setting is often unfeasible for large population studies, especially because cancer patients on immunotherapy often experience constipation. A method for ...

But at one point, this was poo that Poyet and her colleagues, including her partner Mathieu Groussin, had collected as part ...

Among survey respondents with IBD who had used the mail-order option, 90.5% said they would recommend using a mail-order kit for future stool sample collection, and 83% said they would be interested ...

Bottom Line: Over 10% of fecal immunochemical tests (FIT) used for routine colorectal cancer (CRC) screening in a safety-net health system contained unsatisfactory samples that could not be processed.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Mixed-donor nonintensive fecal microbiota transplantation induced significant weight loss in certain people with ...

Stool samples were collected before chemotherapy, with 162 pre- and 194 postsurgery. The gut microbiome was measured by shotgun metagenomic sequencing. Associations of gut microbial diversity, taxa ...

An ova and parasites exam is a relatively routine examination that people with severe diarrhea might undergo if they are admitted to a hospital. As the name suggests, the test checks for the presence ...