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Colon hydration offers alternative to OSP for bowel prep

Posted: June 30, 2009 Pharmaceutical

Some hospitals across the country are choosing an alternative method of prepping the bowel before colonoscopies that does not require patients to drink a gallon of liquid laxatives the day before the procedure, according to EndoNurse. The new procedure is

C.B. Fleet wants to put recalled products back on market

Posted: June 29, 2009 Pharmaceutical

Maker of bowel cleansing products and laxatives C.B. Fleet wants to sell its over-the-counter oral sodium phosphate (OSP) solutions to consumers even though the company recalled them six months ago after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued black box

Longtime laxative no longer available over the counter

Posted: June 23, 2009 Pharmaceutical

Laxatives, like Fleet Phospho-Soda, an oral sodium phosphate (OSP) product, have been sold over the counter for more than a century, so it may come as some surprise that these products suddenly fall under a Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Colonoscopies beneficial for finding cancer early

Posted: June 20, 2009 Pharmaceutical

An estimated 106,100 people will be diagnosed with colon cancer and 40,870 with rectal cancer this year, according to the American Cancer Society. It is the second leading cause of cancer-related death. But the good news is that the death