Your rectum is the last part of your colon. It’s where stool forms before you have a bowel movement. Rectal prolapse is when part of the rectum bulges out of the anus. At first, a prolapse may happen ...

Rectal prolapse occurs when part or all of the rectum slides out of place and sticks out of the anus, turning the rectum inside out. The rectum is the final section of the large intestine before the ...

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro recently proposed that people go “poop every other day” in order to help save the planet. I’m not an expert on climate change. But as a physician, I can comment on ...