Everyone knows someone who has had a colonoscopy and heard the stories about the preparations. Wouldn’t you rather have a day ...

How to prep for your colonoscopy during colorectal cancer awareness month plus more health and wellness tips from this week.

Background: There is a two-fold higher rate of failed colonoscopy secondary to inadequate bowel preparation among hospitalized versus ambulatory patients. Split-dose bowel preparation is widely used ...

New guidelines allow low-risk patients to use 2 liters of prep fluid instead of 4, split the dose, and limit diet changes to the day before a colonoscopy. People with constipation, certain neurologic ...

After hearing all the commotion about colonoscopy prep, you may be glad to hear routine colon cancer screenings don’t start until age 45. A colonoscopy may be required sooner though if you are ...

This week I opted to get a colonoscopy. Because the colorectal cancer statistics have been freaking me out. A story published in Scientific American reports that while the death rates of most cancers ...