While going for a colonoscopy might not be a particularly glamorous part of your day, a recent viral trend has seen people sharing videos of themselves chowing down after fasting for the important ...

I let the Mexiclan — a text chat of my closest friends — know what I was about to do. Memes citing the farting scene from "Blazing Saddles" and others too rude to mention in a family paper immediately ...

A new European study on colonoscopies -- the largest of its kind -- has complicated results, and it's left some people wondering whether they should have the procedure to screen for colon cancer. A ...

10 Things You Should Know About Colonoscopy And Colon Health #colonoscopy #colon #colonhealth #healthapta Curious about what really goes on during a colonoscopy? Discover the top 10 eye-opening ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a physician and behavioral scientist at Duke University. Colon cancer is often preventable with timely screening. One way to ...

The U.S. Multi-Society Task Force on Colorectal Cancer has released updated guidelines for improved bowel preparations before colonoscopies, published by the American Journal of Managed Care March 4. ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mayim Bialik shared her colonoscopy story to reduce the stigma around the procedure. (Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for Los Angeles ...

We all want to live our lives as long, and as healthy as possible. We work on eating healthy, exercising, and getting screening blood work to stave off diabetes or heart disease, but what about cancer ...

Colonoscopy has come under attack as an unnecessarily expensive procedure and much of the public scrutiny has focused on payment to physicians. But, should physicians be paid less for the procedure?

Get ready for a butt-load of ugly truth. A doctor is pulling back the curtain on what really happens when you’re under sedation during a colonoscopy — and it may change how you schedule the rest of ...