Whether you’re in your twenties or well into menopause, your pelvic floor muscles can affect everything from bladder and bowel control to confidence in the bedroom. Here’s how to protect and ...

IT’S a disease that only affects old men. Wrong. You won’t die of it, you die with it. Wrong again! Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in England, overtaking breast cancer for the first ...

Inflammatory bowel disease is a chronic condition of unknown origin characterized by severe inflammation and mucosal destruction in the intestine. There are two main forms: Crohn s disease ...

Some supplements claim they have ingredients that help you go to the bathroom less. Here’s what the science says about their ...

Bowel habits vary from person to person. However, sudden changes can indicate an underlying health condition, such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) or inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). For some ...

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a group of intestinal disorders that cause prolonged inflammation of the digestive tract. It can include ulcerative colitis (UC) or Crohn’s disease.

A large percentage of children who have functional constipation also experience fecal incontinence, as loose stool leaks out around the hard mass. Approximately one-third of children with functional ...

A glass of milk a day could help keep bowel cancer away – or so finds a study by Oxford University and Cancer Research UK. The research suggests that increasing daily milk intake by as little as ...

“The scans revealed that I had stage 2 cancer, but luckily it hadn’t spread. I elected to have bowel resection surgery later that summer, but stayed positive given it had been caught early. “I spent ...

All 50-74-year-olds in England will now receive a home-testing kit for bowel cancer every two years ... found to be early-stage cancer. Keyhole surgery removed it, in July, and Mr Ball is now ...