Understand the first dirty diapers. Early poop is meconium: a black or dark-green, thick, sticky, tar-like substance. It’s made up of intestinal cells, lanugo (the downy hair some babies are born with ...

Everybody poops, but how often people go could reveal a lot about their long-term health, according to research published Tuesday in the journal Cell Reports Medicine. The study of more than 1,400 ...

Doctors have long used the guideline of three bowel movements per week up to three per day as normal, based on surveys of thousands of healthy people with no gut diseases, or medications affecting ...