The parasite that causes the disease lives in the intestines of raccoons and can cause serious illness in humans.

For pet parents, few things are more alarming than noticing blood in your dog’s stool. Whether it’s a little or a lot, a dog ...

A rare parasitic infection known as raccoon roundworm has been confirmed in Los Angeles. The infection, Baylisascaris ...

“That fish went right into the garbage,” she said with disgust. The worm she saw was likely an anisakid roundworm, the most common parasite found in marine fish. Variously called herring ...

While most animals can’t tolerate the region’s dryness and cold, some microbes and invertebrates, including roundworms and water bears, thrive in this frozen desert. Water bears, or tardigrades, are ...

A fecal impaction is a large, hard mass of stool that gets stuck so badly in your colon or rectum that you can’t push it out. You may also be unable to sense or respond when stool is in your rectum.

Jung Hae-in and Jung So-min are no strangers to love stories. But portraying the romance of childhood friends who cross paths as adults in the K-drama “Love Next Door” is a matter of the ...

This is because UC affects the rectum, which plays an important role in holding in stool. “When the rectum is inflamed, we can see urgency, diarrhea, and blood in the stool,” she said.

Occasional morning diarrhea (watery or loose stool) is completely normal and usually not something to worry about. However, if diarrhea is happening frequently or consistently (which is called chronic ...

However, Great Pet Care may make a small affiliate commission if you click through and make a purchase. Soft stool in general is defined as feces that are not fully formed, or that is soft in ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: The Lake County Sheriff’s Department initially named the suspect Dimas Gabriel Yanez but later clarified on Tuesday, Sept. 3, that the 26-year-old’s last name is Yanes.

Bowel cancer has been catapulted into the spotlight in recent years. Not only have there been a number of high profile deaths — such as influencer Dame Deborah James — a series of studies have ...