Magnesium citrate helps relieve occasional constipation by increasing water in the stool. Higher doses can cause side effects like diarrhea, cramps, or nausea. People with certain health conditions ...

After 29 months without a contract, a new hospice union resists the financialization of end-of-life care. When hospice nurse Kristina Nauheimer joined the growing unionization push among end-of-life ...

Swimming in Palm Beach's coastline may be out of the question this Christmas season after Florida health officials announced a health advisory for the waters at Midtown Beach due to high levels of ...

Constipation — having bowel movements less often than usual or stools that are hard or difficult to pass — can affect how you feel throughout your day, disrupt routines, and make other multiple ...

As well as blood, plasma and organs, you can now donate fecal samples to stool banks for research and use in transplants. One scientist from the University of New South Wales Sydney (UNSW Sydney) has ...

Home appliance brand Kohler is getting into the smart camera business, although its new camera isn’t designed to catch crooks in the act. Instead, Kohler’s smart cam is aimed at something more ...

On the gut health side of TikTok there's a genre of videos where people jokingly celebrate having a "ghost poop" -- a bowel movement where the first wipe comes back clean. Some have gone so far to ...

Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) may be an effective adjunctive therapy for depression, especially in patients with symptoms linked to gut disorders such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).

Over the holiday weekend, many people looking to cool off from the summer heat were disappointed as some beaches were closed or authorities advised against swimming because of unsafe levels of ...

ONE WAS HURT. WELL, IT’S LABOR DAY WEEKEND AS WELL. AND OF COURSE, THOUSANDS OF US ARE GOING TO HEAD TO THE BEACH. BUT AT THE SAME TIME, A LOT OF THOSE BEACHES ARE ACTUALLY WARNING AGAINST SWIMMING.

Labor Day vacationers across the East Coast are facing "fecal contamination" warnings at their beaches this holiday weekend. Water quality warnings have struck coastal areas from Maine to Florida this ...