When preparing for a big test or athletic event, try to take a load off. A new, small study found that triathletes performed better on a cognitive test that simulates the experience of rapid ...

Defecating or urinating is often referred to as answering the call of nature. But if you must answer the call in public in ...

Ending the practice of defecating in the open, rather than in a toilet, will have “transformational benefits” for some of the world’s most vulnerable people, says the UN’s partner sanitation body, the ...

One of the problems bedevilling Nigeria is the health effects of open defecation whose impact, according to available statistics, is huge. In this special report, OKWY IROEGBU-CHIKEZIE writes that it ...

For Uganda, a country whose millions of citizens still practice open defecation, it must use students to go into communities and sensitize them against this vice, Dr. Moses Ntaro has recommended. Dr.