While colonoscopies are considered the gold standard of screening, it’s essential to make sure you’re not getting bum results ...

Background: Polyethylene glycol–based bowel preparations (PEGBPs) are widely perceived as safe and effective alternatives to oral sodium phosphate for bowel cleansing prior to colonoscopy.

Bowel cancer can start in the large bowel (colon cancer) or back passage (rectal cancer). It is also called colorectal cancer. This section is about treatment for colon cancer that hasn't spread to ...

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a group of intestinal disorders that cause prolonged inflammation of the digestive tract. It can include ulcerative colitis (UC) or Crohn’s disease.

A glass of milk a day could help keep bowel cancer away – or so finds a study by Oxford University and Cancer Research UK. The research suggests that increasing daily milk intake by as little as ...

This could include increasing doses of Miralax or magnesium supplements to ensure the colon is cleared adequately. She also noted that for some patients, a two-day prep regimen or higher-volume ...

All 50-74-year-olds in England will now receive a home-testing kit for bowel cancer every two years. NHS England has been posting the faecal-immunochemical test (Fit) to all 54-74-year-olds since ...

Hundreds of thousands more people will be sent a home-testing kit that can help to detect signs of bowel cancer, as the NHS expands its lifesaving screening programme to those aged 50 in England.

It may seem harder to lose weight when you have irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). That's because some of the foods associated with a healthful diet—such as those high in fiber—may aggravate symptoms of ...

Brekafast is boiled eggs and oatcakes if on the go, or a overnight oats with seeds After undergoing surgery for bowel cancer ... It’s also easy to prep and take to go – just throw the ...

All bowel preparations, regardless of formulation, are more effective when administered as a split-dose regimen compared with a 1-day preparation. Approximately one in four individuals undergoing ...