Shannin Desroches fought for a diagnosis after being dismissed. Now she tells PEOPLE that she's been given a 5% chance of ...

Delayed diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is common in Europe and North America, with limited research in Asia. We aimed to investigate factors influencing delayed diagnosis of IBD in ...

Adhesions from prior surgery, including cesarean birth and ... can be seen postpartum as well. Bowel necrosis warrants early intervention and surgical consultation. Significant fetal and maternal ...

How you feel after your bowel (colon) cancer operation depends on what type of surgery you have. After a big operation, you might wake up in the intensive care unit (ICU) or high dependency unit (HDU) ...

Surgery may be needed. If you are experiencing bowel and bladder symptoms, bring both to the attention of your healthcare provider. Because of the stigma regarding "bathroom symptoms," many people are ...

Taking steps to protect the eye and avoiding certain activities is important during recovery from cataract surgery. These include avoiding bending over and vigorous sneezing or coughing.

Depending on the severity of the condition and how the body responds to other treatments, the surgery may involve removing part of the colon, or large intestine. A person may still poop when they ...

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who battled racial discrimination in a barrier-breaking career as a military nurse, serving as the first African American in the regular Army Nurse Corps and later caring ...

Colon cancer cases are soaring in young people, alarming experts and leaving doctors scrambling for answers as to why. Now, a study published by a team of international researchers in the journal ...

She was later an Air Force officer. By Clay Risen Nancy Leftenant-Colon, a granddaughter of enslaved people who in 1948 became the first Black nurse to serve in the regular U.S. armed forces ...