Get ready for a butt-load of ugly truth. A doctor is pulling back the curtain on what really happens when you’re under ...

I just turned 45 and am dreading my first colonoscopy. Why do I need to be screened if I’m not having issues? Can you walk me ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You know that you should book a mammogram every two years and a dental cleaning every year, but what about the rest of your body?

A colonoscopy is recommended every decade for people over 45. The screening is used to detect colon cancer. But roughly 40% of eligible Americans don't get a colonoscopy, often because they don't want ...

In June, at his doctor’s recommendation, Tom Contos of Chicago underwent a procedure that’s performed more than 15 million times a year in the United States: a colonoscopy. When the hospital charged ...

Rooted in the innovations of upper endoscopy, colonoscopy emerged in the 1960s as a powerful tool that helps doctors keep your colon and rectal health in check. The numbers are backing this up. With ...

A colonoscopy is a procedure that diagnoses and helps monitor inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). This can play an essential role in preventing and treating colorectal cancer. Doctors diagnose IBD using ...

On Sunday, the New England Journal of Medicine published the interim results of a landmark trial examining the effect of inviting people to colonoscopy screening. The paper, which STAT covered, ...

When Brooks Bell was 38, doctors told her she was too young to have colon cancer, dismissing her textbook symptoms as "likely hemorrhoids." A few months later, after pushing for tests, the North ...