Mel Buchanan didn’t expect anything unusual when she scheduled her first colonoscopy last year. She had no symptoms and was ...

When someone is diagnosed with colorectal cancer - which includes both colon and rectal cancers - many people immediately think "surgery." And it's ...

When someone is diagnosed with colorectal cancer—which includes both colon and rectal cancers—many people immediately think ...

Intuition is what prompted Colleen McGarrity to get a colonoscopy at age 41. The preventative screening probably saved her life. The Ford City resident experienced spotty symptoms but had no family ...

iDepartment of Surgery, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands jCentre of Human Drug Research, Leiden, Netherlands kDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, ...

When parts of the small intestine are diseased or die, the treatment can involve surgically removing the affected tissue. Although lifesaving, the procedure—referred to as a radical small bowel ...

(AP) — Willie Colón, the Grammy-nominated architect of urban salsa music and social activist, died Saturday. He was 75. Over his decades-long career, the trombonist, composer, arranger and singer ...

A trombonist, singer, bandleader, composer and arranger, he collaborated with Rubén Blades on “Siembra,” a 1978 release that became one of the top-selling salsa albums of all time. By Derrick Bryson ...

In less than two months, Tiger Woods could tee it up again at historic Augusta National. The five-time Masters champion did not rule out a return to the major after skipping it last year. When ...

For years, Kirsten Scheller was told the same thing by her doctors: she was too young and too active for colon cancer. In 2010, when she was a 19-year-old college sophomore in Saint Paul, Minnesota, ...

PALO ALTO, Calif. & ROCHESTER, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Guardant Health, Inc. (Nasdaq: GH), a leading precision oncology company and research collaborators at Mayo Clinic and the Alliance for Clinical ...

Former Super Bowl-winning coach Bruce Arians is scheduled to undergo open heart surgery. Arians has a history of health issues, including battles with prostate, nose, and kidney cancer. He retired ...