Robert Burakoff, MD, MPH, is a board-certified gastroenterologist who serves as vice chair of Ambulatory Services at Lower Manhattan Hospital and professor of medicine at the Weill Cornell Medical ...

We may turn up our noses at poo, but manure makes the natural world work. Poo is the waste matter all living things excrete from their bodies. Each kind of animal makes a slightly different sort, ...

Qin Rao, MD, is a board-certified physician based in New York City. He currently works as a gastroenterologist and hepatologist at Manhattan Gastroenterology. Probiotics may help relieve constipation ...

Large doses of antidiarrheal drugs like bismuth subsalicylate (Pepto-Bismol, Kaopectate) can cause very light stools that usually turn brown again after stopping. White or clay-colored stool can ...