A colonoscopy is considered the gold standard when it comes to screening for colon polyps and colorectal cancer. Yet a colonoscopy — and the steps required to get one — can cause a spike of anxiety.

If you’ve been putting off a colonoscopy, you’re not alone. The fasting is uncomfortable, the prep is disagreeable, and the procedure itself requires you to be put to sleep. But colonoscopies are more ...

ANOKA, Minn. — Few words can make people as nervous as 'colonoscopy'. "It's the fear of the unknown because you don't know what you are going to find until we do the procedure," says ...

A study of Ethicon Endo-Surgery Inc's computerized system to help sedate patients undergoing a colonoscopy showed it was effective but other factors may have played a role, the U.S. Food and Drug ...