Patients with a positive fecal immunochemistry test (FIT) were shown to be at significantly greater risk of developing psoriasis than those with FIT-negative tests. The fecal immunochemistry test (FIT ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) - People who wait up to nine months to get a colonoscopy after fecal tests show potential tumors ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 74-year-old male, and I recently received a negative result from my mail-in fecal test. I have been on an every-five-years colonoscopy cycle for the past 20 years (noncancerous ...

Commercially available noninvasive screening tests for colorectal cancer - a fecal immunochemical test (FIT) and the multi-target stool DNAtest (mt-sDNA; or Cologuard ®) - are equally effective for ...

Scientists continue to push for the development of a more precise, sensitive and cleaner colorectal cancer diagnostic. Now a research team from the University of California, San Francisco, and Kaiser ...

Robert Hyde Sr. was first diagnosed with Clostridium Difficile, called C. diff, in 2013. He fought the infection, caused by a drug-resistant bacterium, for four years, vomiting almost every time he ...

Interventions, such as the implementation of patient navigators and provider reminders, may improve follow-up colonoscopy rates of asymptomatic adults with positive fecal blood test results, according ...

Biomass Smoke Exposure Is Associated With Gastric Cancer and Probably Mediated Via Oxidative Stress and DNA Damage: A Case-Control Study A total of 422 patients selected by systematic random sampling ...