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 Why Anal Health Is Medicine’s Most Ignored Topic Ten years ago, I met a local news health reporter at my cousin’s house. By then, I had been a general surgery attending for almost a decade and was shocked by the lack of public health education about anal health care issues. I had also amassed a […]

Let’s talk about something most people suffer through in silence: that maddening, relentless itch in the place where, as they say, the sun don’t shine. Anal itching — medically known as pruritus ani, colloquially known as “itchy butt” — is one of the most common problems affecting the anal area. Most people never mention it

Each one of us is born a one-of-a-kind individual. Your hair color, eye color, facial features, height, skin color, and the shape of your fingers and toes — everything about you is uniquely yours, a masterpiece of genetics and environment that shapes your physical body. When you think about your outer appearance this way, it