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 ...

To prevent the outbreak of cholera in the nation's capital, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Rural Water Supply and ...

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.

I have enormous pride in what my own country, Bangladesh, has been able to achieve in virtually eliminating open defecation over the last two decades, and often ask myself why other countries haven’t ...

More people have mobile phones than access to toilets, the UN reminded us last week as the general assembly designated 19 November official UN world toilet day. Six billion of the world's population ...

A group of villagers walks through Jiling, in the Nuwakot district of central Nepal, with eyes glued to the ground. They cut narrow paths around rice fields and yield to goats until they find what ...

Today marks World Toilet Day, an annual United Nations observance of toilets and an occasion to raise awareness about the 4.2 billion people who still lack access to proper sanitation. The UN General ...

Kolkata: The state urban development & municipal affairs dept has put a ban on open defecation, public urination, spitting in ...