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Poop tests and blood tests join colonoscopy as options for colorectal cancer screening

Colorectal cancer screening guidelines add stool and blood options

Updated American Cancer Society guidance keeps colonoscopy and stool tests as primary screening paths for average-risk adults, while adding new stool-based molecular testing and a blood-based option.

Key Takeaways

Updated guidance adds a new stool-based molecular test recommended every three years.
A blood-based test is available for patients who refuse colonoscopy or stool testing.

DT Editorial Team·Jun 1, 2026·via medicalxpress.com

A Thin but Telling Health Debate: Medical Education, Prevention, and Public Frustration

Two STAT opinion-related items point to an active debate around how medicine is taught and how readers are responding to contested health topics such as perimenopause, diversity, and MAHA activism.

Key Takeaways

STAT’s supplied health opinion items center on medical education, prevention, and reader frustration.
The metadata points to questions about nutrition and preventive care in physician training.

DT Editorial Team·May 3, 2026·via statnews.com

Reader Letters Reopen the Case for Nutrition Education in Medical School

A new STAT reader-letters package puts a narrow but important question back on the table: whether gaps in nutrition education are a core weakness in prevention-focused care, or only one piece of a bigger structural issue

Key Takeaways

STAT highlighted reader letters about nutrition education in medical school
One reader questioned whether lack of education is really the core problem in prevention care

DT Editorial Team·Apr 11, 2026·via statnews.com