Have you ever heard of the gut-brain axis in dogs? This bidirectional communication network impacts your pup's overall health ...
New research has found that at-home gut microbiome tests lack standardization, resulting in different results from the same ...
If a blue-and-white box has arrived at your door, you’re not alone. Millions of adults across the U.S. now receive a ...
Identical stool samples sent to seven direct-to-consumer microbiome testing companies produced substantially different ...
US companies providing gut-microbiome home-testing kits can give consumers very different results. That’s the finding of ...
New research has found that different gut health testing companies can provide wildly different results from the same fecal ...
The results were even more disparate than the team had expected. Of the more than 1,200 taxonomic groups of microbes ...
The FDA has cleared a multiplex polymerase chain reaction test designed to detect 11 clinically relevant gastrointestinal ...
Colorectal cancer is highly treatable when caught early—and FIT tests make screening easier than ever with a simple at‑home ...
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 ...
Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...