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

A young pregnant patient assumed abdominal pain and rectal bleeding was from her pregnancy. She was diagnosed with Stage IV ...

Colon cancer is now the deadliest cancer for adults under 50, yet it remains one of the most preventable since polyps ...

How a dreaded medical chore is getting a longevity rebrand.

Scientists have identified why some gut microbes successfully stay in the gut after fecal transplants, while others are much more transient. The King's College London discovery could help make the ...

"I had something nagging at me all last year, just, 'You need to get checked, you need to get checked.'" ...

March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, and a local woman who was shocked by a diagnosis in her late 30s is sharing her story.

Diet plays a big role in colon cancer prevention and regularly choosing certain foods, like cruciferous vegetables, may help ...

Early research also indicates there could be some differences in symptoms between men and women.

Affecting roughly half a million Americans each year, bacterial infections caused by Clostridioides difficile —commonly known as C. diff —are a serious and persistent problem for patients and ...

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...