A new European study on colonoscopies – the largest of its kind – has complicated results, and it’s left some people wondering whether they should have the procedure to screen for colon cancer.

A study on colonoscopies has complicated results, and it’s left some people wondering whether they should have the procedure to screen for colon cancer. Click to toggle navigation menu.

In the new study, nearly 30 percent of the physicians doing the procedures had rates below the recommended minimum quality rate. In their paper, the study’s authors acknowledge these limitations.

The 66-year-old New York City woman said she joined the study six years ago after having trouble walking, which “scared me to death,” but so did the idea of a heart procedure.

In this study, the Kareem's procedure was performed on 80 patients with intact gut and disabling symptoms -- 92% were adults and 8% were children. Soon after surgery, the digestive symptoms ...

An experimental study from researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania links a specific procedure - embryo culture - that is part of the assisted reproduction ...

Researchers in this study were looking at a specific procedure that showed promising results for heart valves. The procedure provides another option to the traditional open-heart surgery needed to ...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Aug. 24, 2022 – Scientists at Wake Forest University School of Medicine have demonstrated that a neurosurgical procedure used to research and measure dopamine and ...

Kishida's team noted that infection was observed in 1 (.21%) out of the 486 patients that did not participate in the research procedure and 2 (1.72%) of the 116 patients that did have the procedure.

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A new European study on colonoscopies — the largest of its kind — has complicated results, and it's left some people wondering whether they should have the procedure to screen for colon cancer.