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Bodywork: An unexpected culprit behind colon polyps?

August 26, 2025

Adam’s Journal A colonoscopy recently revealed colon polyps – and a recommendation for another colonoscopy in three years. My younger sister’s colonoscopy yielded similar results. Neither of us seems to have many, if any, of the typical lifestyle risk factors for polyps. How big a role does genetics play? Dr. Scofield Prescribes Colon polyps are […]

Filed Under: Bodywork Tagged With: adam cohen, colon, colon and running, colon cancer, colon polyps, colon test results, colonoscopy, colonoscopy results, dr. hal scofield, Hal Scofield, marathoner, polyps, running advice, running colon

OMRF discoveries reshape understanding of gut microbiome

October 22, 2020

OMRF scientists have redefined how the gut microbiome operates and how our bodies coexist with some of the 100 trillion bacteria that make it up.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: antibiotic, balance, colon, disease, fecal, feces, genome, gut, health, human, Kirk Bergstrom, Lijun, mice, microbiome, microbiota, mucus, National Institutes of Health, news, newsok, NIH, OKC, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF, Prescott, publication, science, scientist-news, stephen, Stephenson Cancer Center, steve, tset, Xia

Cancer

For many cancers, the odds of survival now are better than ever and going up.

Montgomery, Courtney Gray

OMRF finds defective sugar at the root of colitis

April 11, 2011

New finding could be key to developing novel treatments for ulcerative colitis.

Filed Under: News, Research News Tagged With: bowel disease, colitis, colon, Lijun, O-glycans, scientist-news, Xia

OMRF discovery could lead to faster colon cancer diagnosis

September 19, 2010

Genes may help predict early-onset colon cancer occurrences.

Filed Under: Diseases, News, Research News Tagged With: cancer, colon, Courtney, McGuire, Montgomery, scientist-news

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