Brian Teng, MD

12/20/2025

It's not that unusual for a 20-something to text Mom from the doctor's office for help answering a health question.

12/14/2025

Why don’t you ever see Santa in the hospital?

Because he has private elf care.

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11/28/2025

This is not a high fiber diet.

A man in the UK downed an entire 3kg (6.6 pound) bag of Haribo gummy cola bottles and ended up in the emergency room for a gelatin overdose.

11/27/2025

Happy Thanksgiving and please don’t swallow any bones.

11/23/2025

An oldie but a goodie.

👀a rare Uranus event gave scientists the perfect angle to probe its atmosphere 🛰️ thanks to the curve of starlight during a stellar occultation (when Uranus passed in front of a distant star), researchers got the DEEPEST look at Uranus in over 30 years! Credit: scitechdaily

11/20/2025

In another life Dr. Dre would have been a colore**al surgeon (digital re**al exam).

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Dr. Dre is a renaissance man. He is a producer, a rapper, a headphone magnate, and coming this Fall to ABC, he’s about to start saving lives too in Dre’s Ana...

09/22/2025

Strollin' for the Colon - Toni's Race

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MENDON, N.Y. — Walkers and runners were out at Mendon Ponds Park Saturday morning to raise money and awareness for colon cancer. The initiative was started by the nonprofit Strollin’ for Colon, that works to honor the founder’s late sister, Toni, who battled colon cancer. The organization aims...

09/13/2025

Great day for raising money to help fight colon cancer. Strollin' for the Colon - Toni's Race
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08/23/2025

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08/15/2025

If you have a first degree relative with colon cancer you are at higher risk for colon cancer and should be doing colonoscopy as your primary colon cancer screening. By the time you have symptoms things maybe very advanced.

08/08/2025

People under age 50 have been appearing increasingly at doctors’ offices in the past few decades, complaining of blood in their stool, abdominal trouble or unexplained weight loss.

The diagnosis: colore**al cancer. And by that time, it was often too late.

But that paradigm is finally starting to shift, at least for patients in their 40s.

There has been a jump in people aged 45 to 49 getting screened for colore**al cancer, after recent medical guidelines lowered the screening age for those at average risk.

As a result, the disease is being caught sooner, when it is more curable and the treatment is less grueling, according to new research from the American Cancer Society.

Read more: https://on.wsj.com/3UhDDaZ