Scientists are rethinking defecation as a universal trait after studies showed several animals digest food without producing faeces. Species such as sponges, jellyfish, flatworms, tardigrades, and ...

Dyssynergic defecation is a disorder that can cause a person to have chronic constipation. It occurs when there is a coordination issue between the muscles that control bowel movements. There are ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . SAN DIEGO — In this exclusive video from Digestive Disease Week, William Chey, MD, professor of medicine, and ...

Defecation is commonly treated as a universal feature of animal life, a visible outcome of digestion and metabolic turnover. In biological terms, however, waste handling takes multiple forms, shaped ...

When a beetle gets swallowed up whole by a predatory frog, it's not necessarily the end of the insect's time on Earth. New research delves into how some aquatic beetles can survive being devoured by, ...

Researchers at Kyushu University have demonstrated that yogurt intake increases the diversity of gut microbiota and alters its composition. Furthermore, bathing in chloride hot springs after yogurt ...