Japanese doctor wins Ig Nobel prize for do-it-yourself colonoscopy

A Japanese doctor was recognized Thursday with the Ig Nobel prize, which honors comical but practical scientific studies, for devising the most comfortable colonoscopy technique by using himself as a test subject.Akira Horiuchi, a 57-year-old head of the digestive disease center at Showa Inan General Hospital in Nagano Prefecture, received the prize for medical education at a ceremony at Harvard University.A colonoscopy, which can help detect colon cancer, is usually done with the examinee lying on his or her side as a tube is inserted through the anus.Doing a self-colonoscopy while sitting…READ FULL ARTICLE