Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Roughly eight years after treatment, 81% of female colon cancer survivors still had GI symptoms, say researchers who analyzed ...

The gut is responsible for absorbing all the healthy nutrients in our food. Anything that gums up the system, such as a buildup of toxins, could be affecting your overall well-being. If you haven’t ...

Gwyneth Paltrow's "Goop" teamed up with the Clean Program to create a colon cleanse. (ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images) Gwyneth Paltrow's lifestyle blog has its own colon cleanse for "Goop" groupies. The ...

Colon cleanses might not offer the health benefits they claim. Potential risks of colon cleanses include infection, burns, and dehydration. A colon cleanse called bowel preparation is medically ...

There are several screening methods for colon cancer including: fecal occult blood test; sigmoidoscopy; colonoscopy; barium enema. Doctors consider colonoscopy to be the most sensitive and accurate ...

Some of the body’s most important work takes place in one of the least talked-about locations: the colon. A healthy colon helps the body absorb nutrients from the foods we eat. It also helps eliminate ...

Smooth muscle lesions of the large bowel, excluding the rectum, are generally rare, and diffuse smooth muscle lesions, termed leiomyomatosis, are even rarer. In this report, we document, for the first ...

A colon cleanse may help with constipation. You can do a natural colon cleanse at home using water, diet, and some over-the-counter products. Digestive health is integral to feeling happy, healthy, ...

A doctor has outlined a shocking case in which a woman was left brain dead after an internet hoax went horribly wrong. The incident, outlined on medical YouTube channel Chubbyemu, involves a ...

Researchers have found that colon cancer tumor cells produce energy for growth differently in women and men, and that this difference is associated with a more aggressive form of tumor growth with a ...

A new study by Johns Hopkins researchers shows that obese white women may be less likely than normal-weight counterparts and African-Americans of any weight or gender to seek potentially lifesaving ...