A 2022 study estimates that at-home flu tests have a sensitivity of about 63% if the test is performed within 72 hours of ...

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

Causes of black stool: Consuming certain dark foods, such as black licorice, blueberries, or foods with deep colouring, can temporarily darken stool (Images: Canva) A jet‑black, sticky stool that has ...

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 ...

(NEXSTAR) — An unexpected delivery at your door may not always be an unwelcome surprise — just ask one Kentucky boy about the thousands of dollars worth of lollipops that arrived at his home earlier ...

A large real-world study found that fewer than half of adults who started colorectal cancer (CRC) screening with an at-home stool test completed the recommended repeat test, creating gaps in ...

Background: The New Zealand (NZ) FIT for Symptomatic Pilot (FSP) aimed to determine the feasibility of using faecal immunochemical test (FIT) as a triaging tool to assess patients presenting with ...

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 ...