The rate of anesthesia use in screening colonoscopies has increased in both physicians’ offices and ambulatory surgery centers, according to a whitepaper released by Truven Health Analytics. The ...

There are all sorts of stories about people who do crazy things after waking up from anesthesia. Some folks start speaking a ...

WORCESTER — The next time you need a colonoscopy, make sure you read the fine print if your health insurance coverage is with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts. The insurer changed its policy, ...

Mayor Adams and his team late Wednesday walked back a statement he made earlier in the day that he was under anesthesia last week, saying the mayor in fact had a colonoscopy over a month ago that ...

Detection of serrated polyps during colonoscopy improved significantly with the use of propofol-based versus conventional sedation, data from a large registry showed. The detection rate increased from ...

A recent article in the New York Times explored the growing use of anesthesiologist-administered anesthesia during colonoscopy and its impact on the cost of colonoscopy procedures. Traditionally, ...

In patients undergoing colonoscopy to screen for colorectal cancer, deeper sedation using the anesthetic drug propofol may improve detection of "serrated" polyps - a type of precancerous lesion that ...

When performing a colonoscopy, doctors send a small camera through the human large intestine to search for signs of cancer. Mayor Eric Adams and his press team sent reporters down an equally long, ...

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams and his team late Wednesday walked back a statement he made earlier in the day that he had been under anesthesia last week, saying that the mayor in fact underwent a ...