It’s about shifting out of fight-or-flight and into rest-and-digest.

In part one of our exclusive gut health series, gastroenterologist Trisha Pasricha identifies the everyday habits throwing our digestion out of whack and how to get things back on track (hint: You’ll ...

I was halfway across the Queensboro Bridge when a not-so-unfamiliar feeling hit me: I had to take a shit. I was 1.5 miles into my run, and I had emptied the tank just before I left my apartment. As I ...

A woman in her 30s was diagnosed with colorectal cancer after six years of doctors dismissing symptoms, believing they were ...

Viral hacks promise control over menstrual flow. But they reveal deeper gaps in education about vaginal health and the menstrual cycle.

The urge to poop occurs when your rectum fills up, triggering receptors in the anus to signal the brain: go poop. The longer the stool sits in the rectum, the more water is absorbed from it, making it ...

Death comes for people in the strangest of places, in the most unexpected ways. And in 1016 CE, legend has it, it came for Edmund Ironside, king of the English, while he was seated on his toilet. The ...

A push to encourage the non-flushing of sanitary products has seen toilet blockages across Chichester plummet, according to Southern Water. It has been working with the town's university on getting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 300,000 "easy, hygienic and discreet" disposal bags have been distributed around campus [Getty Images] A push to ...