British pensioner William Eastment has been released from a Chilean prison on health grounds and placed under house arrest as ...

A call has been made for more stoma-friendly public toilets in Belfast. The Alliance Party has made a proposal at City Hall ...

Ostomies are indicated after bowel resection when an anastomosis is not feasible or must be deferred, with colostomy and ileostomy providing controlled diversion through a stoma. Common management ...

Annual cases of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD), a rare but dangerous bacterial infection, have hit the highest level seen in Canada in more than a decade. This rapidly progressing illness is ...

A federal civil jury on April 2 awarded a $307.6 million verdict to a Detroit man who alleges he suffered in prison for more than two years because the state's former prison health care contractor ...

Schaps is general surgery resident at Duke University Health System, a member of the United Ostomy Associations of America advocacy committee, and a Department of Veterans Affairs quality scholar. The ...

Penn State scientists uncovered an ancient bacterial defense where dormant viral DNA helps bacteria fight new viral threats. The enzyme PinQ flips bacterial genes to create protective proteins that ...