Brown Stool Brown stool is generally considered a normal, healthy stool. The color is the result of a pigment called bilirubin this created when the liver breaks down red blood cells.

Biliary atresia, which occurs in roughly one out of 14,000 newborns in the United States, is the leading cause of liver failure in children and the number one reason for liver transplantation in ...

The analysis showed that the stool color card would prevent three more deaths and 11 more liver transplants among the 303 children than the traditional no-screening approach and would do so for ...