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Mayim Bialik, 47, is raising awareness about colonoscopies on Instagram. The Jeopardy!host shared photos and videos from the hospital prep room before she underwent the standard procedure.
Lance Bass is taking his fans along with him as he has a colonoscopy. The pop star shared a photo of himself from a hospital bed, urging others to get screened too.
Mikee Quintos had fans laughing with her new social media upload, a funny and candid video of her groggy self after undergoing colonoscopy.
Between January and the end of March, the campaign created a 68% increase in colonoscopy leads, the health system says. More than 100 patients scheduled gastroenterology appointments after seeing ...
A new survey by MedStar Health found 79% of people don’t know when to start screening, and about 40% of people who should get a colonoscopy have not received one yet. Dr. Priyanka Kanth, a ...
Chrissy Teigen shared an update after undergoing her first colonoscopy on Wednesday, ... Celebrity Makeup Artist Kristofer Buckle Shows Off Dramatic Before-and-After Photos of Plastic Surgery, ...
Even if his patients won't do the colonoscopy, with the Shield test "at least we can catch some patients who need a screening." The sensitivity of the Shield test is similar to the Cologuard test ...
In his op-ed “Colonoscopy Prep Is Worse Than IKEA” (June 3), Jim Sollisch gives readers the impression that there has been a universal shift to a three-day bowel preparation for colonoscopies ...
Before a colonoscopy, ask the doctor about his or her detection rate for polyps. And find out how long, on average, the doctor takes to withdraw the scope from the patient. About 10 minutes is the ...
The prep for a colonoscopy remains perhaps the biggest impediment to screening. That’s why the approval last year of a pill-based prep option for patients is welcome news.