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 ...

Rachel Higgins had surgery to close her anus and divert her stool through a hole in her abdomen. Since getting a colostomy bag, she said she's been able to eat more and live a normal life. She said ...

Colostomy surgery is a procedure where the colon or large intestine is diverted to an artificial opening on the lower section of the wall of the abdomen so that it can expel out fecal matter to the ...

An ileostomy and a colostomy are surgical procedures that reroute part of the intestines to an opening in the abdominal wall. Ileostomies involve the small intestine, while colostomies involve the ...

An ostomy bag is an umbrella term for the types of bags that collect waste from surgical openings in your intestines or bladder. A colostomy bag is a type of ostomy bag used to collect stool. Share on ...

The bacterial flora of ileostomy and transverse colostomy effluents and fecal flora were compared. Aerobes were present in similar numbers in all these types of specimens. On the other hand, anaerobic ...

A Crohn's patient has raised awareness of the realities of living with the disease - including using a colostomy bag - by writing on Facebook about how people are insensitive towards those with the ...

Colorectal cancer is any cancer that starts in the colon or the rectum. It is also known as bowel cancer, colon cancer, or rectal cancer, depending on where the cancer starts. Colorectal cancer is ...