“Microplastics are a foreign object in your body,” said Judith Enck, a former regional administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency who co-wrote a new book, The Problem with Plastic. “You’re ...

Poo anxiety, bashful bowels, shy bowel syndrome: they're all terms for what's medically known as parcopresis or difficulty ...

One of the best stories ever told on our show. Mitch Morse in 2023 was in on a play action pass. He pooped his pants. The Bills staff saw it and rushed him to the blue medical tent. His family was ...

Maxed out on fines and under a public health investigation, Brevard County condemned a woman’s house after many years of ...

In Northwest Alaska, a proposed 211-mile mining road has divided an Inupiaq community already devastated by climate change.

Dear Lucas: I have a particular neighbor who thinks it is OK to throw away dog poop bags in my trash can when the bins are at the street for pickup. I’m too shy to ask the person to stop, but I ...

Do you suffer from parallelophobia? If you deal with an irrational fear of parallel parking, you're not alone. Nearly half of all Americans suffer from this condition, and in Britain, many would ...

Much of the food you eat is absorbed by your digestive system, which includes your stomach and your intestines. But some of what you eat makes it all the way through those twists and turns and comes ...

A few weeks ago, “South Park” season 28 quietly ended its season on episode five and premiered a brand-new season two weeks later without any fanfare. In fact, many viewers and news outlets completely ...

If you’ve ever been struck by urgent signals from your bowels in the middle of a work meeting, a first date, or a milestone event, it may have felt like the worst possible time to need to go. You ...

"Ghost poop" is a bowel movement that seemingly disappears without a trace after you flush the toilet. There’s no sign of it either in the toilet paper that you used to wipe your butt or in the toilet ...

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 ...