NIST's fecal RM helps standardize microbiome research to ensure accuracy, consistency, comparability, and reproducibility in ...

A unit of RM 8048 consists of four vials each from two dietary pools: omnivore and vegetarian. Credit: NIST The National ...

Tim Story, a Mississippi football coach, was given months to live after late-stage colon cancer. He enrolled in a clinical ...

A simple stool test may reveal why some people are sensitive to food emulsifiers such as CMC, offering insights into IBD risk ...

A test for fecal occult blood looks for blood in your ... Other tests require you to collect stool samples on more than one day. You then send the samples, in a special container and envelope ...

Researchers have been unable to find the original source in a Welsh Shigella outbreak that affected more than 50 people. In ...

Colorectal cancer is the second most common cancer and the third leading cause of cancer related deaths in men and women under age 50.According to the American ...

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. (WBNG) -- March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, and experts recommend getting screened for the disease if you are 45 years old. According to the Colorectal Cancer Alliance, one ...

As colorectal cancer rates rise in adults under 50, new at-home screening options offer opportunities for early detection.

While the heavily advertised at-home stool tests certainly can be a useful, extra screening tool for detecting colon cancer, ...