The thought of having a colonoscopy probably sends chills down your spine. Although it’s not the most pleasant procedure, it shouldn’t hurt and could end up saving your life.

The SpyGlass, manufactured by Boston Scientific in the United States, is an important advance in the field of hepato-pancreato-biliary (HPB) and academic medicine in the Western Cape.

Endoscopes, which are used to examine patients' gastrointestinal tracts are often not cleaned properly and these dirty devices might pose infection risk.

Symptoms of ulcerative colitis disappeared for one-third of patients after process.

A colonoscopy may miss as many as one in every 13 colon cancers, suggests a new study.

Researchers are designing an ingestible robot that could be used to patch wounds, deliver medicine or dislodge a foreign object in patients' stomachs.

A new study found that routine colonoscopy confers life-extending benefits.

Most people dread the preparation for a colonoscopy, but researchers say new techniques are on the horizon.

Although there were more problems than previously estimated, most were minor, researchers found

So-called virtual colonoscopies detect tumours and pre-cancerous lesions almost as well as standard colonoscopies using a camera threaded through the colon.