Bringing your phone into the bathroom can also be unhygienic, the experts said. Fecal matter — and the bacteria in it — can ...

Scrolling on your smartphone while on the toilet may be doing more than passing the time. A new study has found it could raise your risk of hemorrhoids by nearly 50%, thanks to the extra minutes spent ...

“If you feel like you’re always spending more than five minutes on the toilet, you’re not scrolling and you’re just struggling to go, then that’s a sign you should talk to your doctor,” Pasricha said.

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 ...

Of all the crappy ways smartphones have affected our health, this one is a real kick in the pants. A first-of-its-kind study links excessive scrolling on the phone while sitting on the toilet with ...

A recent study found that smartphone use while doing a number two is linked to a 46% increased risk of developing hemorrhoids. A healthy toilet trip should only last two to three minutes, yet the ...

A new study advises limited smartphone use to 5 minutes, as sitting on an “open toilet bowl” provides no support to the pelvic floor, leading to hemorrhoids Getty Scrolling on your phone while you sit ...

You probably press them every day, multiple times a day if you have a toilet made in the last 20 years. But many people in ...

Smartphone use on the toilet — which often included reading the news or scrolling through social media — was associated with ...