MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'colonoscopies'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 03:30:35 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3302396&cid=t_217435_111_f&fid=36048&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAHeartyLife%2F%7E3%2FFs5n-F6Sz34%2F If you go for a colonoscopy to check out the health of your bowels (colon), it may be in your best interest to ensure the doctor who is performing the test is a gastroenterologist, a GI doctor. While general practitioners can and do perform some colonoscopies, they don’t have the formal training of the GI doctors and can easily miss something that may otherwise have been noted. According to a study published in the Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, GI doctors who performed colonoscopies had a higher colorectal cancer detection rate than did other doctors. Researchers looked at 110,402 residents who lived in the province of Ontario, Canada, and who were 50 to 80 years old at the time of their colonoscopy. All had been told that their colonoscopy was negative, meaning nothing u... A Hearty Life blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3302396 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:55:39 +0100 3302396 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3243758&cid=t_217435_87_f&fid=34872&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blisstree.com%2Fhealthbolt%2Ftake-home-a-personal-colonoscopy-video%2F We may be entering a whole new world of home videos if researchers from Indiana University Hospital in the United States have their way. If you were offered the chance to take home a video of your very own colonoscopy, would you? Would you go as far as to pay for one? The researchers conducted a survey of patients who underwent colonoscopies to see if they would like a video and if they would be willing to pay for one. Currently, videos are done if a procedure is going to be used as a teaching tool, but otherwise, recording is not done. However, since the effectiveness of colonoscopies are one of the tests that depend on the skill of the practitioner, a number of suspicious lesions may be missed during the procedure if it is not recorded. It turned out that a majority of the respondents sa... Healthbolt blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3243758 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:52:20 +0100 3243758 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2463078&cid=t_217435_111_f&fid=36048&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAHeartyLife%2F%7E3%2FxuV4wyW1fBo%2F Young adults in the United States are being diagnosed with more colorectal cancer today than years ago despite a decline that started in the mid-1980s. Screening played a large role in colorectal cancer prevention and detection, which helped lower the numbers. Colonoscopies can detect polyps, overgrowth of tissue, that can become cancerous. If they’re detected and removed through colonoscopy, that’s one less chance of developing the cancer. And, if colorectal cancer does occur, if it’s detected early enough, colorectal cancer has 90% cure rate. But, this is really only for people over 50 years old as regular colon screenings aren’t usually suggested for younger people who aren’t considered to be high risk. Now, however, according to an article published in the... A Hearty Life blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2463078 Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:29:08 +0100 2463078 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2035950&cid=t_217435_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F482654883%2F The agency is adding the warnings to the drugs, which are used before colonoscopies, following reports of kidney damage in several patients. So far, the FDA has received more than 20 reports of a serious form of kidney failure among patients taking the bowel-cleansing drugs, known as oral phosphate products, the Associated Press writes. The new labeling applies Visicol and OsmoPrep, which are prescription tablets made by Salix Pharmaceuticals. The drugs should be used with caution in patients older than 55, those who suffer dehydration and kidney disease, and those who take meds that affect kidneys. “There are many people who use these and use them fine,” Charles Ganley, who heads FDA’s office of nonprescription products, told reporters on a teleconference. “But th... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2035950 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:00:08 +0100 2035950