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For many years, ostomy surgery was rarely spoken of. It is performed for a variety of disease processes, including birth defects, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, incontinence and cancer. It can be ...

A stoma is an opening in your abdomen that allows waste to exit your body, rather than going through your digestive system. They’re used when part of your bowels or bladder either need to heal or be ...

Ostomy patients using a new type of skin barrier product--infused with ceramides that play an essential role in the normal barrier function of the skin--experience lower costs of care, according to a ...

A stoma is an opening in your belly's wall that a surgeon makes in order for waste to leave your body if you can't have a bowel movement through your rectum. You might get one if you have surgery to ...

A new Gloucestershire charity supports people with stomas in Africa. Footprints 2 Africa was founded to help vulnerable ...

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 ...

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has introduced accessible ‘stoma friendly’ toilets across Royal Preston and Chorley and South Ribble Hospitals, thanks to funding from Rosemere ...

A new free stoma care education resource has been launched for acute and community nurses. The Foundation Course in Stoma Care; a nurses’ guide to bowel stomas was developed by a group of stoma care ...