You should have a colonoscopy every 10 years starting at age 50. Alternatively, you may get a flexible sigmoidoscopy every five years, a double-contrast barium enema every five years or a CT colonography (virtual colonoscopy) every five years. However, a colonoscopy will be needed if any of those results are positive.
Jena Pincott explains that even after a mother gives birth, her babyâs cells remain inside her body â and work tiny wonders. In an excerpt from her book Do Chocolate Lovers Have Sweeter Babies?, Pincott explains that pregnancy is really only the beginning for mother and baby cell-sharing.
House call: Medical experts are urging more women to give birth at home. It calls for a radical shake-up in the NHS which could lead to thousands more women having babies at home, as was the case 50 years ago. In 1959, more than a third of women gave birth at home but by 1988 this had fallen to a low of 0.9 per cent.