Over 500 people in South Africa have fallen ill from a gastrointestinal illness linked to poor water quality in two cities.

Based on recent headlines, you may think we are in the midst of a 'sexually transmitted diarrhea' outbreak. Here's what's really going on.

Travellers’ diarrhoea is one of the most predictable miseries of international travel, striking between 30 and 70 percent of visitors to high-risk regions and derailing military deployments, holidays ...

"By introducing microorganisms into the gut of germ-free mice, we have conclusively demonstrated that gut colonization of microbiota is a prerequisite for feces to float," the aut ...

Robert Burakoff, MD, MPH, is a board-certified gastroenterologist who serves as vice chair of Ambulatory Services at Lower Manhattan Hospital and professor of medicine at the Weill Cornell Medical ...