Sometimes in order to determine or rule out the potential cause of a medical condition, doctors need to peek inside the patient’s body. Over the past few decades, technological advances have given doctors unprecedented access to seeing what’s happening inside the body without cutting it open and potentially causing more damage. Although surgery is sometimes the...
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What to Expect at Your First Colonoscopy
Colonoscopies are a very important screening and diagnostic tool, and though it’s recommended that at the age of about 50, people have them regularly, there is no age limit on when one might be necessary. However, people are often very apprehensive about a colonoscopy, even putting off having one done even though they are proven to help prevent the development of colon...
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