The color of your poop (stool) can provide clues about diseases or conditions affecting the digestive tract. Some of the causes are harmless, like eating colored foods or taking certain medications, ...

Everyone poops, but it’s still something a lot of us have an awfully hard time talking about. (Unless you’re my 6-year-old and 3-year-old, who cannot talk about poop enough, it turns out.) But it’s ...

Stool comprises digested food, proteins, bacteria, salts, and other substances produced and released by your intestines. What your poop looks like can be important. Unexpected changes could be a sign ...

A simple health check with the help of a stool color chart could save infants suffering from congenital biliary atresia from deadly liver damage, health officials said, adding that the ...

Since the chart to analyze infants’ stool has been used, the number of cases of biliary atresia being treated rose more than 30 percent, its designer said. A simple health check with the help of a ...