Local News: Ashburn, VA 

 | 

Sign Up

 | 

Sign In

Colorectal Health

Colorectal Health News Editors

News Widget

Display the Colorectal Health news headlines on your website.

Get the Topix Headlines Widget

Share & bookmark

RSS icon mobile icon

Colorectal Health News

News on Colorectal Health continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.

1 hr ago | Examiner.com

Should kids be fed foods with lots or little amounts of fiber? Beware of bezoars

Should children be eating a specific amount of fiber? Nutritionists and researchers are looking at high vegetable fiber diets and vitamin D3 as one way to possibly shrink colon polyps so that they eventually may disappear.

Comment?

Related Topix: Family, Kids, Life, Food, Vegetables, Nutrition, Davis, CA, UC Davis, Colon Cancer, Health

5 hrs ago | Examiner.com

Local students compete at International Science and Engineering Fair

Scarlett Reece, Woodland High School , and Tushar Mittal, Dutchtown High School , joined more than 1500 students, grades 9 through 12 from more than 70 countries, regions, and territories, to display their independent research at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair 2013 , held at the Phoenix Convention Center , Phoenix, Arizona.

Comment?

Related Topix: Phoenix, AZ, Medicine, Health

6 hrs ago | Mental Help Net

Another Study Finds Colonoscopy Can Save Lives

A new study that included almost 1,100 patients found that those whose cancer was spotted by colonoscopy tended to have an earlier stage of disease at the time of their diagnosis, as well as better survival.

Comment?

Related Topix: Health

6 hrs ago | Silicon Alley Insider

Jeff Zucker May Actually Be Crazy Enough To Save CNN

Jeff Zucker is trying to save CNN after helping NBC's ratings during the network's "Must See TV" era.

Comment?

Related Topix: Today, Entertainment, Television, Primetime, Colon Cancer, Health

11 hrs ago | Drugs.com

Gene-Based Blood Test for Colon Cancer Shows Promise

Could screening for colon cancer someday be as easy as having a blood test? Researchers say just such a test is showing early promise in trials.

Comment?

Related Topix: Colon Cancer, Health, Mount Kisco, NY

15 hrs ago | Health News Digest

Does Your Man Need a Tune-Up?

Most men understand they need to change the oil in their cars regularly and check the brake and transmission fluid.

Comment?

Related Topix: Colon Cancer, Prostate Cancer

19 hrs ago | WTOP-FM Washington

Sleep plays critical role in maintaining good health

What she really meant is you need to get enough sleep to ward off colds, avoid making bad decisions, stay awake at work and even to reduce your risk of heart disease, breast cancer and diabetes and to avoid gaining weight, according to medical experts.

Comment?

Related Topix: Medicine, Health

23 hrs ago | Freshnews

Exact Sciences Prices Public Offering of Common Stock

Exact Sciences Corp. today announced the pricing of its previously announced underwritten public offering of 5.5 million shares of its common stock, offered at a price of $12.35 per share to the public.

Comment?

Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, EXACT Sciences, Healthcare Industry, Health, Investment Banking, Financial Services, Jefferies Group, Investment Services, Robert W Baird, Securities and Exchange Commission, Corporate / Securities Law, Law

Tue Jun 18, 2013

GastroHep.com

Antitumoral immunity in colorectal cancer

The latest issue of the Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics reviews current and potential future implications of antitumoural immunity in colorectal cancer in clinical practice.

Comment?

Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Pharmacology, Oncology

Customer Interaction Solutions

Obesity is a Disease: The American Medical Association Agrees with...

The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists applauds the American Medical Association House of Delegates for its action today to approve a resolution recognizing obesity as a disease state requiring a range of interventions to advance obesity treatment and prevention.

Comment?

Related Topix: Endocrinology, Medicine, Surgery, Health, Breast Cancer, Colon Cancer, Epidemic, Natural Disasters

Surgical Products

Acs Nsqip Data More Accurate Than Administrative Data For Tracking Readmissions

With Medicare penalties on hospitals with higher-than-expected rates of 30-day readmissions expected to rise in 2014, more hospitals are evaluating the most accurate methods for tracking readmissions of patients.

Comment?

Related Topix: Medicare, Health, Medicine, Surgery, Medicaid, Nursing

Business Journal

Exact Sciences prices public stock offering

Exact Sciences Corp. of Madison said Tuesday that it priced a previously announced public offering of common stock at $12.35 per share for estimated net proceeds of $63.7 million to the company.

Comment?

Related Topix: EXACT Sciences, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Health

Mon Jun 17, 2013

CBS Local

Medical Frontiers: Colorectal Surgery

Colorectal cancer treatment has changed drastically over the years. Today's medical advancements have allowed doctor's to give rectal cancer patients a temporary colostomy instead of a permanent colostomy.

Comment?

Related Topix: Cancer, Medicine, Health

Examiner.com

Stop cancers and metastatic activity.

Natural substances found in plants, fruits and vegetables impact gene expression and modulation, cell proliferation, inflammation, cancer cell death and metastasis .

Comment?

Related Topix: Supplement, Hops, Colon Cancer, Life, Fruits, Food, Leukemia

Freshnews

Rexahn Awarded U.S. Patent for Novel Anti-Cancer Compounds

Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc. , a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing potential best-in-class oncology therapies, today announced that it has significantly expanded its intellectual property around a series of novel anti-tumor quinazoline compounds.

Comment?

Related Topix: Oncology, Medicine, Colon Cancer, Health

Sun Jun 16, 2013

The Windsor Star

Men's health clinic promotes early detection

Dr. K. Rasool consults with Tamas Molnar, 72, at the Men's Health Clinic at the Sandwith Community Health Centre, Saturday, June 15, 2013.

Comment?

Related Topix: Family Practice, Health, Prostate Cancer, North America, Canada, World News

SeacoastOnline

Advances in lung cancer screening aid early detection

Lung cancer is the second most common type of cancer in the United States aside from breast cancer in women and prostate cancer in men.

Comment?

Related Topix: Health, Lung Cancer, Medicine, Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Surgery, Colon Cancer, Smoking

Sat Jun 15, 2013

Canada NewsWire

7th annual Underwear Affair in Edmonton raises over $625,000 for the Alberta Cancer Foundation

Foundation to support breakthrough research and the discovery of new cancer therapies at the Cross Cancer Institute and 16 other cancer centres in Alberta.

Comment?

Related Topix: Medicine, Cancer, Health, Uterine Cancer

WABI-TV Bangor

Enjoy "5 Guys" to Support Cancer Treatment

A sergeant with the Penobscot County Sheriff's Office spent 22 years serving his community, and now could use a little help.

Comment?

Related Topix: Medicine, Cancer, Health, Penobscot County, ME, Brewer, ME, Colon Cancer, Bangor, ME

MassLive.com

Ten years into cancer fight, Ray Ellerbrook finds peace in retirement at Look Park

As he enjoys a ride toward an especially beautiful section of Look Park, Ray Ellerbrook does not sound like a man in retirement.

Comment?

Related Topix: Personal Finance, Retirement, Colon Cancer, Health, Erving, MA, Amherst, MA, Easthampton, MA

Colorectal Health Hot Topics