ORLANDO -- Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) reported mostly favorable responses with the use of mail-order kits for stool sample collections, according to a survey study. Among survey ...

A study conducted by UCLA researchers indicates sending unsolicited stool test kits to people aged 45-49 is the most effective way to increase colon cancer screening. Photo by Tamas Soki/EPA ...

Colorectal cancer is highly treatable when caught early—and FIT tests make screening easier than ever with a simple at‑home ...

Cologuard is a colon cancer screening test you can do at home. It’s a noninvasive, stool-based test that comes in a kit. You use the kit to collect a stool sample. Then you send the sample to a lab ...

People are three times more likely to undergo at-home colon cancer screening if they're provided a free test, a new study says. About 30% of patients mailed a free stool test kit completed their ...

Health insurance companies send all kinds of things in the mail: brochures about benefits, branded items such as coasters and duffel bags, and reminders to get certain health tests done. Some have ...

New research has found that at-home gut microbiome tests lack standardization, resulting in different results from the same stool sample.

Parents may soon be able to determine whether their young child has autism by using a new stool test kit developed by researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The test, which analyzes gut ...

Automatically mailing a stool test kit to people's homes might be the best way to boost colon cancer screening among younger adults, a new study says. More 45- to 49-year-olds went ahead with cancer ...