Brazil's new far-right president is undergoing surgery to remove the colostomy bag that was put into place after he was stabbed in September. President Jair Bolsonaro, speaking in a video from the ...

A conjoined twin in Brazil died following an operation that separated him from his brother, who passed away shortly after ...

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 ...

Ileostomy and colostomy are both surgical procedures to create an opening in the abdomen to reroute the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Diversion colitis (DC) is a condition that causes a part of the ...

AN expandable tube that unblocks the bowel before surgery could lead to fewer cancer patients -- diagnosed as emergencies -- needing a colostomy bag. The Cancer Research UK-funded CReST trial ...

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 ...