A new UCLA Health study found that taking an eight-strain probiotic daily may reduce the risk of pouchitis, a common ...

The guidelines recommend that a colonoscopy be performed 3 years after removal of three or more small adenomatous polyps - the type likely to develop into cancer -- or one advanced adenoma.

But a loophole, she said, makes removal of a polyp “diagnostic” and a procedure whose cost is the patient’s responsibility. Some patients, as they wait to undergo a colonoscopy, refuse to ...