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 colonoscopy is an exam that lets your physician see your entire colon. Before the test, your health care team will give you instructions for how to clear your colon of any stool. This process is ...

A colonoscopy is a telescopic and visual examination of the colon and rectum. It helps doctors detect abnormalities in the bowel, including signs of colorectal cancer. More than 15 million colonoscopy ...

More men are getting colonoscopies to screen for cancer since the Affordable Care Act reduced how much Medicare beneficiaries pay out of pocket for the preventive tests, a recent study found. The ...

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. “I ...

If you're in your 40s, you might think colon cancer is something to worry about decades from now. But alarming new research ...