Health insurance companies send all kinds of things in the mail: brochures about benefits, branded items such as coasters and duffel bags, and reminders to get certain health tests done. Some have ...

Some Medicare Part D and Medicare Advantage (Part C) plans with drug coverage may cover the cost of colonoscopy prep kits. However, private insurance companies administer these plans, so the coverage ...

Trinity and Community Health Partners are offering free colon-cancer screening kits through August. The screenings, endorsed by the American Cancer Society, uses the Hemoccult II Screening Kit.

In a new study aimed at identifying the best approach to promote colorectal cancer screening in adults aged 45 to 49, UCLA researchers found that simply mailing a stool-based test directly to people's ...

Earlier this year, Juanita Thomas, 63, went to her local Department of Motor Vehicles to register a car. For Thomas — a retired housekeeper, mom, grandmother and great-grandmother in Omaha, Nebraska — ...

Automatically mailing a stool test kit to people's homes might be the best way to boost colon cancer screening among younger adults, a new study says. More 45- to 49-year-olds went ahead with cancer ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Looking back, Rosalyn Kimbrough knows she took her eye off her health. The 66-year-old beloved sister, mother, and grandmother in Indianapolis is now battling late-stage colon cancer.

DAVENPORT, Iowa – Feb. 19, 2013 – Anyone 50 years old or older, or those with other factors associated with an increased risk of colon cancer, are encouraged to pick up and return a free colon cancer ...