Rectal examination is believed dangerous and is commonly deferred or omitted in patients with acute myocardial infarction. To evaluate the safety and specific usefulness in this clinical setting of an ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “Although several colorectal cancer screening methods have been shown to reduce colorectal cancer, nearly ...

When David Thau, a lobbyist in Washington, D.C., was 34, he periodically experienced pain in his stomach, irregular bowel movements, blood in his stool and vomiting, and he visited doctors ...

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 ...

In this era of skyrocketing health-care costs, how many serial stool guaiac tests would a patient have to have in order to obtain results equivalent to screening colonoscopy for colorectal cancer?

Studies involving gut pathophysiology have traditionally relied on tissue biopsies. Because of the invasiveness, this method is largely unacceptable in human neonates and has thus limited our ability ...

Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. The finger-up-the-bottom examination for prostate cancer has been drawn into question. An international panel of ...

Dr. Emily W. Lopes: An 89-year-old man was evaluated at this hospital because of recurrent bloody stools. Two years before the current evaluation, the patient underwent repair of a right inguinal ...

Lactose intolerance is an inability to digest a type of sugar found in milk and dairy products. Breath, blood, and stool tests are types of lactose intolerance tests that can measure the body’s ...