Stool samples can help doctors diagnose some health conditions. Tips for collecting a stool sample include urinating before collecting the sample and using any tools that the sample kit provides.

If you are having digestive symptoms, your doctor may prescribe an at-home stool test, in which you collect stool samples and send them to a lab or bring them to your doctor’s office for analysis.

A stool test is a diagnostic procedure that involves analyzing fecal matter, or poop, to check for signs of infection, inflammation, or disease. The specific analysis depends on a person’s symptoms ...

Fecal specimen collection in the clinical setting is often unfeasible for large population studies, especially because cancer patients on immunotherapy often experience constipation. A method for ...

ORLANDO -- Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) reported mostly favorable responses with the use of mail-order kits ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an improved stool collection kit of Geneoscopy’s RNA-based colorectal cancer (CRC) screening test, ColoSense. The new kit enhances user ...

Among survey respondents with IBD who had used the mail-order option, 90.5% said they would recommend using a mail-order kit for future stool sample collection, and 83% said they would be interested ...