Infection rates from colonoscopy more than 100 times higher than expected, study reveals

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By Dena Schmidt, staff writer

(NaturalHealth365) Conventionally speaking, most doctors urge their patients – age 50 and older – to get a colonoscopy, at least every five years. However, getting a colonoscopy or endoscopy procedure might actually be riskier than most medical professionals realize, according to recent research out of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

For the study, the scientists used an insurance claim database to gather medical information from six states – New York, California, Florida, Nebraska, Vermont and Georgia. Emergency room visits were tracked for hospital admissions related …read more

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