“We can’t keep taking sections out of your gut and suturing you back together. It’s time to discuss ostomy surgery,” my doctor said. I was 34. My reaction was ...

The steps I took to find my rhythm began many years ago. I grew up watching Dick Clark’s “American Bandstand,” jitterbugging in front of the small, square, black and white television in the living ...

Renee Welsh had a colostomy when she was 32 because of severe Crohn's disease. Now, she's built a TikTok following dedicated to representation. This is her story, as told to Kelly Burch. Since I was 9 ...

An expert offers three steps that patients can take to become more comfortable and confident with their ostomy after undergoing surgery for gastric cancer. After a patient with gastrointestinal cancer ...

OCEANSIDE — Often when people who have had ostomy surgeryattend their first support group meeting, they believe they havebeen sent to the wrong place because the people in the room look nodifferent ...

Manhasset-based North Shore University Hospital, part of the Northwell Health system, has opened an ostomy clinic. Ostomy surgery allows waste or urine pass through an opening in the abdomen to a ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am responding to a recent letter from a reader anxious about undergoing a colonoscopy. One of her concerns was a possible perforation requiring additional surgery and a temporary ...

Not everyone with colorectal cancers and bowel diseases needs a colostomy. You may be able to avoid ostomy surgery, depending on the reason for it. A colostomy is a surgical procedure that creates an ...

There’s still a lot of mystery (and stigma) surrounding stomas. One vlogger is out to change that. Share on Pinterest Meet Mona. She’s a stoma. Specifically, she’s Hannah Witton’s stoma. Hannah is a ...

Colostomy prolapse is a complication of colostomy surgery where the bowel protrudes through the stoma. This complication can make it hard to care for the stoma and may affect quality of life. A ...

I didn't know what my life would be like after ostomy surgery, and I was still terrified of my decision to go ahead with the surgical procedure. The surgeon explained how he would surgically remove ...