Nobody wants to have to deal with a painful, potentially embarrassing hemorrhoid, but you could be increasing your risk with ...

You probably don’t think of your poop as art or a book, but each time you finish doing your, um, business, your fecal matter tells a story. That’s because we are what we eat, and whatever we eat ...

Madeline Lauf, founder and CEO of Begin Health, discovered that she didn’t need to take medicine for life to fix her digestive health issues. She just needed prebiotics. The discovery led her to start ...

Hi, I’m Trisha Pasricha, a gastroenterologist and the Ask a Doctor columnist at The Washington Post. I completed my internal medicine residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and fellowships in ...

A crusade to combat the proliferation of poop in Colorado’s backcountry entered a new frontier this week with the creation of a “Clean 14” initiative focusing on the state’s iconic 14,000-foot peaks.