Anal fissures, piles, abscesses, and fistulas differ in pain, bleeding, and infection, know the signs early.

To get to The Throbbing Domain, you need to get past the flesh wall at the end of The Caves and The Boneyard. You can do so in two ways: Get lucky with the Strength skill check at the end of each ...

While neoadjuvant immunotherapy and chemoradiotherapy can improve rectal cancer patient outcomes, there is a need to better identify those who will respond well. Here, the authors present a single-arm ...

Pain when you poop is usually a symptom of a health issue like constipation, irritable bowel syndrome, or hemorrhoids. Many of these health conditions can be treated easily and your symptoms will be ...

Fever can be one of the first symptoms of an infection somewhere in your body. Infections can sometimes be life threatening.

Hydrotherapy of the colon, also known as colonic cleansing or irrigation, involves using water to flush waste out of the large intestine. The colon, or large intestine, absorbs water and salts from ...

Simon Spichak finished his MSc at University College Cork, where he studied the interactions between the microbes in the gut and the brain. He became interested in science communication during his ...