Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A stoma is an opening from an area inside your body to the outside, according to the U.S. National Library of Medicine. (Photo: ...

October is Ostomy Awareness Month; an Ostomy, is a life changing surgery creating an opening in one’s intestinal tract, forcing some natural processes to avoid one’s normal organs. Fashion designer ...

A stoma is an opening that a surgeon creates on a person’s abdomen to allow them to pass bodily waste. Stomas can be lifesaving for people with certain conditions. A person has ostomy surgery to ...

"If we don't talk about it, if we don't teach people, how are they going to know to accept us for who we are?" says Jessica Grossman, who founded the nonprofit Uncover Ostomy Jessica Grossman was ...

An ileostomy and a colostomy are both forms of ostomy surgery. Although they are similar, ileostomies and colostomies involve different parts of the bowel. Ostomy surgery, or bowel diversion, is a ...

Adjusting to life with an ostomy can be challenging, both physically and financially. From finding the right pouching system to managing daily care, it often takes time, patience and the right ...

KUSA - Saturday is the national Ostomy Awareness Day. This day is being used to bring attention to both ostomies and continent diversion-type surgeries. Although there are different types of ostomies, ...

This study explored the experiences and preferences of Hispanic patients with ostomy and caregivers to tailor an existing intervention to this patient group.

A colostomy bag doesn’t really affect how long you’ll live. A better indicator of your life span will be how well the colostomy bag helped treat your underlying condition. You may get a colostomy bag ...

You may not know the word for it, but odds are you've seen a stoma bag before. But while these pouches can be lifesavers for people with certain health conditions, there's a lot the general public ...