As part of CURE®’s Heal at Home series, we offer a guide on ostomies following surgery and how patients can best care for their stomas. These are just some of the questions that Stephanie S. Yates, a ...

The ileostomy bag collects the digestive waste of people who have undergone an ileostomy. Proper skin care and regular bag emptying are essential to prevent complications. An ileostomy is a relatively ...

New York, Aug. 13, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "China Wound Care Management Procedures Outlook to 2025 - Ostomy Procedures, Tissue Engineered - Skin ...

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 ...

Additionally, there is a Quad-City chapter of the United Ostomy Association of America, which is based in Roseville, Minn. This organization helps patients live a normal life after surgery. It also ...

Ostomy procedures have been keeping people alive for hundreds of years, but not everyone has knowledge about these life-saving procedures or their impact on the lives of the people who have them. I ...

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 ...

Surgery in November removed 12-18 inches of Taplin's colon, and she spent a week in the hospital. The surgeon had told her there was a 50/50 chance she would come out of the procedure with a colostomy ...