Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. A procedure that is uncomfortable, but can be life-saving, is a colonoscopy, but it's not everyday doctors manage to find an insect inside someone's colon.

A man with a family history of bowel cancer was admitted to Dunedin Hospital four times with rectal bleeding but despite meeting the criteria for an urgent colonoscopy he waited almost 13 weeks, ...

A man died at Nelson Hospital after a surgeon performed a colonoscopy without realising he only had one lung. The Health and Disability Commissioner has released its findings into the man's death in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Doctors found a fly in the colon of a 63-year-old man during a routine colonoscopy. They suspect the fly was swallowed, and were ...

A man forced to wait 12 weeks for a colonoscopy despite having rectal bleeding was then told he had just months left to live. The man, who is in his 70s, had a family history of colon cancer and made ...

A hospital can detain an “extraordinarily vulnerable” man with suspected bowel cancer for the purpose of performing an urgent colonoscopy on him against his wishes, the High Court has ordered. The ...

Back when the iPhone first became a gleam in Steve Jobs' eye, it's possible, but not probable, the ability to provide thousands of people with visual access to the inside of someone's colon was high ...

It's not every day you get asked to be the star of an internet video, but when Dan Logan was approached by his gastroenterologist to have his next colonoscopy broadcast live on Facebook, the ...

A fly found in a man's colon during a colonoscopy caused a buzz amongst his gastroenterologists. This past summer, a 63-year-old unnamed man went in for a routine colonoscopy. As a doctor fished a ...