On today’s episode of The Spotlight, Mecca and Owen sat down with Dr. Jeff Scott from Happy Colon Foods to talk about ...
Brooks Bell first noticed something was off while on a work trip when she saw blood in her stool. It was 2018. She was 38 years old. When she got home, she was reassured—by two different doctors—that ...
Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 79-year-old female who is currently on biannual infusions for osteoporosis and high cholesterol. In 2018, I was diagnosed with Lynch syndrome with an MSH6 deviation. The genetic ...
We conducted a cross-sectional study using a web-based survey among members of Ukraine's endoscopy society EndoAcademy (Kyiv, Ukraine) (October-November 2023). The questionnaire assessed colonoscopy ...
Health insurance companies send all kinds of things in the mail: brochures about benefits, branded items such as coasters and duffel bags, and reminders to get certain health tests done. Some have ...
The cost of a medical procedure, like a colonoscopy, can vary dramatically between hospitals in the same state. Researchers find little connection between higher hospital prices and better quality of ...
Having a doctor stick a camera up your butt searching for cells that could turn into cancer is never going to be fun. But it’s still the most effective way to screen for colon and rectal cancer, the ...
Royalty-free licenses let you pay once to use copyrighted images and video clips in personal and commercial projects on an ongoing basis without requiring additional payments each time you use that ...
Colon cancer is the second-deadliest cancer in the US, partly due to low screening rates. New and emerging screening tools, like blood and breath tests, may offer alternatives to in-office screenings.
In a research study, some doctors will wear Apple Vision Pro during colonoscopies to explore how spatial computing can support real-time cancer detection. We've been hearing about potential case uses ...
Many patients with commercial insurance and Medicare still face out-of-pocket costs for bowel preparations despite ACA mandates. Low-volume bowel preparations are more likely to incur costs than ...