AN EVALUATION of the importance of routine stool testing in the internist's office for occult blood was made by reviewing 1600 consecutive office records of new patients. Stool specimens brought to ...

Scientists at the University of Geneva have created the first detailed catalogue of gut bacteria at the subspecies level, ...

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 ...

A colonoscopy is still the gold standard. It can find and remove precancerous growths during the same procedure, which no ...