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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Using deep sedation for index average-risk screening colonoscopy procedures did not improve polyp or adenoma ...

Colonoscopy, for 20 years a recommended form of screening to catch precancerous polyps, appears no better at helping to reduce deaths from colorectal cancer than a less invasive test, say researchers ...

Dear Dr. Roach: After reading your recent column on sedation during colonoscopy, I wanted to mention that I have asked for no sedation during two colonoscopies in the past several years. I did this ...

The use of the anesthesia propofol puts patients to sleep faster, brings them out of their oblivion more quickly and may help doctors find more precancerous polyps during a colonoscopy than the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Given a choice, most doctors and nurses who perform colonoscopy would choose to be fully anesthetized when undergoing the procedure themselves - unless they had to pay full ...

The risk of severe complications during colonoscopy is very low. This risk should be kept low when changing strategies to reduce discomfort during the examination. The increased use of deep sedation ...

Colon cancer is common and it's preventable. Early detection saves lives. Have you been putting your colonoscopy off?

Lying there wide-awake as the doctor removed the colonoscopy tube from my hinder, I recalled that time in the 1980s when I had four impacted wisdom teeth gouged from my jaw while under nothing but a ...