Researchers investigated the bathroom habits of 125 adults. People who use their smartphones while sitting on the toilet face are at higher risk for painful, itchy hemorrhoids, according to new ...

Survey participants who reported using a smartphone while on the toilet had a higher risk of hemorrhoids than non-users. Chethan Ramprasad of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, U.S., and colleagues ...

Growing up, Amaka Godfrey remembers how much of her life revolved around water. She'd have to lug a can of water to her primary school in Nigeria each day, which had no water of its own. Later, in ...

Colorado football coach Deion Sanders has been trying to remove the stigma associated with incontinence and bladder issues after having his cancerous bladder removed in May. He even has discussed the ...

Ben Shelton quit during his third-round match at the US Open on Friday because of a left shoulder injury. The No. 6-seeded Shelton, a two-time major semifinalist, stopped after dropping the fourth set ...

A 17-year-old student of a government-run residential school in Karnataka's Shahapur taluk gave birth to a baby inside the institution's toilet. The shocking incident prompted a police investigation.

An MSP has been accused of placing a secret camera in a toilet at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. Colin Smyth was suspended by Labour earlier this month on a separate charge of possessing ...

Jocelyn Solis-Moreira is a freelance health and science journalist based in New York. There’s nothing like shutting the bathroom door, maybe even locking it and hiding away from one’s family, even ...

The federal Department of Health was forced to trial a cheaper kind of toilet paper to avoid an employee 'blocking the loo on a regular basis', internal emails have revealed. Email correspondence from ...

Reece Walsh capped a week of drama surrounding his toilet water stunt with a cheeky try celebration — and then came clean on the saga following his brilliant performance against Melbourne. Walsh put a ...

From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Paloma Beltran with Shawn M. LaTourette, New Jersey’s commissioner of environmental ...