Colonoscopy

• ‘Screening tests can save your life’: Canadian Cancer Society

  The Canadian Cancer Society (CCS) is encouraging Quebecers aged 50 to 74 to take steps to find out about the often silent killer that is colorectal cancer.

  Health

  Mar 7, 2020
  
• 25th annual Light Up a Life campaign underway at Northumberland Hills Hospital

  This year's campaign goal is $150,000 to support the purchase of surgical scopes at the hospital.

  Health

  Nov 6, 2018
  
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• Fecal transplant capsule as good as colonoscopy to treat C. difficile: study

  A Canadian study has found that a fecal transplant for treating clostridium difficile in the gut is effective whether it's delivered by colonoscopy or by swallowing a capsule.

  Canada

  Nov 28, 2017
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• Police investigate equipment theft at St. Mary’s Hospital

  The high-value equipment used for endoscopy and colonoscopy procedures disappeared September 27.

  Crime

  Sep 28, 2017
• Lakeshore General Hospital compensating ‘recall colonoscopy’ patients

  Patients who were seen by Dr. Gilles Bourdon between 2009 and 2012 will split the $400,000 settlement.

  Canada

  Jul 5, 2016
• Patient awarded $500,000 after medical staff caught mocking his manhood

  A Virginia man was awarded $500,000 in court after being mocked about his masculinity and insulted by an anesthesiologist during a colonoscopy in 2013.

  Health

  Jun 25, 2015
• Doctor suspended again for questionable medical conduct

  On Monday, Dr. Gilles Bourdon was suspended again by Quebec's Order of Physicians.

  Nov 18, 2013