Jade and Rhiannon explain how their stoma bags - which collects their faces - impact on intimacy and their sex lives ...

Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro is in stable condition after being hospitalized for experiencing severe abdominal ...

Hirschsprung disease and meconium ileus can both cause a newborn to be unable to pass their first stool. Learn the different ...

Minutes later, the diagnosis was official: the 34-year-old mother of three kids under 6 had Stage III colon cancer.

You might need more surgery to repair the leak if other treatments don’t work. This operation will usually involve you needing a stoma. This usually gets better with time. But some people need more ...

A gut rehab surgery in 2016 left Debbie Kinder, 58, with an ileostomy that diverts waste from her small intestine to a wearable pouch. She started keeping her supplies — pouches, odor ...

Her lifesaving surgery has now left her with a stoma bag and a feeding tube. In 2021, the NHS called for a ban on the magnets after at least 65 children were admitted to hospital for urgent surgery.

During surgery, doctors also create an ileostomy, an opening in the abdomen that re-routes the ileum, the largest part of the small intestine, through it, allowing the stool to pass out of the ...

Lucy Notarantonio is Newsweek's Senior Lifestyle and Trends Reporter, based in Birmingham, UK. Her focus is trending stories and human interest features ranging from health, pets and travel.

One-year-old Araya Whateley ended up needing seven hours of emergency surgery to have part of her bowel removed and now has a stoma bag. The magnetic beads belonged to Araya’s nine-year-old sister ...