A cheap, widely available diabetes drug may soon pull double duty as a colon cancer-fighting supplement, according to new research that’s turning heads in the medical world. Metformin, a staple ...

China creates ingestible, luminous microspheres that detect intestinal bleeding and are retrieved with a magnet, a ...

A Boston-based team led by a professor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston is developing a new tool to help fight colon cancer — a “swimming capsule” pill, according to a WCVB.com report. The ...

A less toxic and more convenient treatment for advanced colon cancer can be delivered in tablet form, according to a new University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center study. Researchers said the ...

When most of us hear “colonoscopy,” more often than not it causes an involuntary gulp of trepidation, but thanks to the work of Israeli medical solutions company Given Imaging, that gulp will soon be ...

NEW YORK -- Beta-carotene supplements appear to promote the recurrence of potentially pre-cancerous colon polyps in people who smoke and drink regularly. A new study is the latest to raise concerns ...