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

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Experts agree that the microbiome is important to human health. But many are skeptical about how useful these kits are.'Photograph ...

Automatically mailing a stool test kit to people's homes might be the best way to boost colon cancer screening among younger adults, a new study says. More 45- to 49-year-olds went ahead with cancer ...

A fecal lactoferrin test can detect intestinal inflammation. High lactoferrin levels in stool suggest that inflammation is present. This may indicate a bacterial infection or inflammatory bowel ...

A large real-world study found that fewer than half of adults who started colorectal cancer (CRC) screening with an at-home stool test completed the recommended repeat test, creating gaps in ...