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 ...

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.

Defecation urgency in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a common and devastating symptom, involves sensory as well as emotional components, suggesting that the brain plays as much of a role in urgency ...

With over 48 million Nigerians still practising open defecation and a nationwide shortage of toilets, some public health physicians doubt the country’s ability to achieve open defecation-free status ...

Any analysis worth its salt of what it means to be poor will include indicators explicitly linked to health – nutrition, for example, or mortality rates. But in reality, the many different aspects of ...

The open defecation invites pigs from the neighbouring slums, making hospital all the more inhospitable. A large number of patients from Chatra and Koderma districts of Jharkhand visit ANMMCH on a ...

Residents of Chorkor, a coastal community in Accra, are grappling with the challenges of open defecation, posing significant health risks to the community. The lack of access to sanitary facilities ...