At-home health tests are booming—but are they reliable? Doctors explain which home tests are worth trying, which to skip, and ...

A small glass vial buried nearly two millennia ago is forcing archaeologists to confront an uncomfortable truth about ancient ...

Archaeologists analyzing a vial from Turkey have found the first physical evidence that ancient civilization used human feces ...

Tiny traces of chemicals in the breath are beginning to reveal big secrets about the gut. New research suggests that by “sniffing” these molecules, clinicians may someday diagnose microbiome-related ...

When some ancient Romans were feeling a little under the weather, they were treated with human feces. While this practice was ...

Dallas — One person’s waste could be another’s shot at fighting cancer.

That single vial—an unguentarium recovered from a tomb in ancient Pergamon, once a major medical hub—has now delivered rare, chemical evidence that human feces were used as medicine in the Roman world ...

A new paper in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry finds that common medications used for flea and tick control in dogs and cats may pose a significant environmental risk for insects in the wild.

When you’ve taken your dog in for a veterinary checkup, chances are you have heard the veterinarian discuss a fecal test and seen a fecal sample be collected as part of the exam. A fecal test for dogs ...

A study conducted by University of Portsmouth researchers focused on donkey feces, but it yielded findings with far broader implications for the environment and human health. Although fecal samples ...