You can now investigate your health worries from home, using DIY testing kits that claim to screen for a range of conditions ...

One of the changes that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently made to the childhood immunization schedule ...

Mohammad Samad's stage 3 colon cancer was misdiagnosed as stress, IBS, and Crohn's disease.

From mammograms to at-home faecal immunochemical tests, eligibility for national screening programmes varies across ages and ...

Stomach paralysis. Cyclical vomiting. Foul-smelling sulphur burps. After years of investigating the hidden costs of the ...

From breast and cervical to bowel and lung screening, we explain the four NHS cancer screening programmes available in the UK and who qualifies ...

Subtle changes in the gut can signal a higher risk of cancer long before a tumor shows up on a scan. Researchers are ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 30 (Bernama) -- Medical specialists have warned Malaysians against dismissing persistent upper abdominal discomfort as ‘gastric’, saying misuse of the term could delay the diagnosis ...

A calprotectin stool test is a noninvasive way to measure intestinal inflammation. It can help diagnose conditions like inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), gastrointestinal infections, and colorectal or ...

Regular stool tests already used in NHS care, combined with dietary information, could help identify people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) at higher risk of relapse, a major study appearing in ...

Virtually every aspect of your health can be traced back to your microbiome. But some tests are better than others.

Scientists have developed a tool to measure the activity of a molecule linked to gut inflammation within faecal samples. The optical tool, known as a luminescent reporter, lights up when it detects ...