Doctors have long used the guideline of three bowel movements per week up to three per day as normal, based on surveys of thousands of healthy people with no gut diseases, or medications affecting ...

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 ...

Sherri Gordon, CLC is a certified professional life coach, author, and journalist covering health and wellness, social issues, parenting, and mental health. She also has a certificate of completion ...

Americans are being urged to be extra vigilant this winter, as a suite of influenza A mutations has created a dominant virus strain that's spreading more rapidly and evading our natural and ...

A new flu strain, Subclade K (A(H3N2)), is surging across the U.S. following the holiday season. Since October, the flu has caused at least 7.5 million illnesses, over 19,000 hospitalizations, and ...

Robert Burakoff, MD, MPH, is a board-certified gastroenterologist who serves as vice chair of Ambulatory Services at Lower Manhattan Hospital and professor of medicine at the Weill Cornell Medical ...

This year’s flu season is shaping up to be a nasty one—driven by a new variant of the influenza virus that may be able to slip past our vaccine defenses. A mutated form of the influenza A strain H3N2 ...

According to the Cleveland Clinic, constipation is one of the most frequent gut health complaints in the US. One of the most ...