Bowel cancer has been making headlines around the world, following the death last week of actor James Van Der Beek. The former Dawson’s Creek actor was diagnosed with colorectal cancer at age 45.

The National Cancer Institute estimates that more than 150,000 people will receive a colorectal cancer diagnosis in 2025, and factors like gender, age, and family health history can increase your risk ...

Bowel incontinence is when someone leaks stool or has an entire bowel movement by accident. This might be because they couldn’t get to the bathroom in time or didn't realize what’s happening. It’s ...

Endometriosis is an ongoing, painful condition in which tissue like the kind that lines your uterus (the endometrium) grows outside of your uterus. With this condition, doctors usually find a small ...

If you're regularly waking up bloated and backed up, there are some easy ways to build a more productive morning bathroom routine. "Bowel movements go in cycles for many individuals, like it's part of ...

Researchers examined the clinical, lifestyle, and multi-omic data of more than 1,400 healthy adults. How often people poop, they found, can have a large influence on one's physiology and health.

Ever taken a "ghost poop?" For a topic most people shy away from talking about in real life, bowel movements are an extremely popular subject of discussion online. So-called ghost poops have gone ...

Raquel A., 33, never guessed she had cancer, even though she had symptoms that worried her. A few years ago, her bowel movements became increasingly frequent and abnormal, which she figured was due to ...

Bowel retraining is a program that people can follow to help regain control over the bowels or to help relieve chronic constipation. It involves training the body to have bowel movements each day at ...

Lisa Marie Presley's cause of death was a small bowel obstruction, according to an autopsy report obtained Thursday from the Los Angeles County medical examiner. Presley, the only child of Elvis and ...