Defecation urgency in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a common and devastating symptom, involves sensory as well as emotional components, suggesting that the brain plays as much of a role in urgency ...

A Baton Rouge restaurant has put up a fence in front of their store, claiming that unhoused people have repeatedly defecated on their property The fence was a “last resort” after months of trying to ...

Rose George’s absorbing book is about the global reality and politics of human defecation. Most of this book’s readers will be owners of or members of a community with ready access to a flush commode ...

The scourge that open defecation continues to constitute in 21st century Nigeria was quite rightly the focus of attention at the maiden two-day Toilet Business Owners Conference which took place in ...

For decades, biology textbooks and popular science writing repeated a striking claim: bacterial cells in the human body ...

We aimed to investigate the prevalence of true rectocele and obstructed defecation (OD) in patients with pelvic organ prolapse (POP), to investigate the correlation between true rectocele and OD, and ...

Traders and buyers at the Odo Olowu Warehouse Market in Lagos have decried persistent open defecation along the Oshodi-Mile 2 ...

A restaurant is putting up a fence for an unconventional reason. Baton Rouge restaurant Roul’s Deli built a fence around the front of their Plank Road location on March 30 after repeated incidents of ...