The process of excretion or defecation is as important as eating food. Getting rid of the waste products in your body reduces the chances of infections and bacterial diseases to affect you. There are ...

We think about eating but we never think how it goes out of our system, isn’t it? Well, it may seem awkward but defecation is as important part of the body functions, as it is to consume food. You may ...

The focus of two recent Nobel prizes, a species of roundworm has made possible another advance in the understanding of how cells talk to one another. A new mechanism through which cells in the worm's ...

As a result of spinal cord injury (SCI) patients may have a partial or complete loss of the sensations of defecation. To compensate this impairment, nurses initiate bowel management programs.