On Sunday, the New England Journal of Medicine published the interim results of a landmark trial examining the effect of inviting people to colonoscopy screening. The paper, which STAT covered, ...

I’m not a very good patient. It’s not that I’m particularly difficult or demanding, it’s just that I have been fortunate to be a reasonably healthy individual for most of my life so I tend to be a ...

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, polyps, unexplained diarrhea, ...