As promised, Rubén Blades is paying tribute to his longtime collaborator and friend Willie Colón. Colon died on Saturday at age 75. Once his family announced the news, Blades took to Instagram. “What ...

When Ramón “CZ” Colón-López handed over the flag as Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, there was no prolonged farewell tour, no gradual easing out of the spotlight.

It turns out that despite everything you’ve heard, getting a colonoscopy is wonderful. By Sam Anderson For many of us, a colonoscopy is a distant inevitable horror, like the heat death of the universe ...

Chronic inflammation may be quietly reshaping the colon and making it more vulnerable to early-onset colorectal cancer. Scientists found that colon tissue in younger patients was stiffer, even in ...

Colon cancer is now the No. 1 cause of cancer deaths in Americans under 50. It claimed that spot seven years earlier than previously projected. Colon cancer deaths among people under 50 have risen ...

Most types of cancer have become less deadly over time in adults younger than age 50 in the U.S. but colon and rectum cancers continue to cost lives at alarming rates, according to a new report from ...

The state of New Jersey is suing a scrap metal recycling company after at least two major fires at junkyards allegedly led to hazardous conditions for nearby residents in Camden. The lawsuit was filed ...

Ozempic and Wegovy might help people avoid colon cancer as well as promote weight loss or control diabetes, a new study says. People who took a GLP-1 drug were 36% less likely to get colon cancer than ...

Colon cancer diagnosis involves colonoscopy, imaging, and blood tests, with staging guiding treatment decisions. Stage 1 treatment typically involves surgery, while stage 2 may include chemotherapy ...

Patients with colon cancer using GLP-1 receptor agonists (the class of drugs behind treatments like Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro) had substantially lower five-year death rates than those not using ...