Earlier this summer, Bethany Townsend, a 23-year-old aspiring model from the United Kingdom, posted a photo on Facebook that soon went viral. The snapshot shows the young, dark-haired woman in a black ...

Patients with colorectal cancer who have a colostomy reported lower health-related quality of life than those without, with ...

Doctors treating people with rectal cancers always hope they can avoid surgery, since that can lead to a lifelong reliance on colostomy New research suggests that MRI can be a powerful tool in ...

In 2017, Morris Ntamo underwent a colostomy at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto. The surgery, which involves diverting a part of the colon through a surgically created opening in the stomach, ...

Study design: Prospective controlled comparative analysis. Objective: To determine whether a colostomy changes quality of life in patients with a spinal cord injury. Method: A previously validated ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Bowel Management Systems Market by Product (Irrigation Systems, Nerve Modulation Devices, Colostomy Bags, and Accessories), Patient Type (Adult and Pediatric), End User ...

Patients undergoing abdominal surgery for ostomy placement have high rates of hospital readmissions and emergency department visits – often involving ostomy-related complications, reports a study in ...

Some rectal cancer patients might be spared surgery and the lifelong need for a colostomy bag if they undergo MRI screening, a new study finds. The scans might accurately predict which patients have a ...