The stool is collected in a colostomy bag, which is worn on the abdomen. Colostomy surgery may be used to treat many ...

The bowel ends are hooked back up together. The procedure allows for the functioning of the anal sphincter and eliminates the need for a colostomy bag after surgery. The major difference between this ...

People also need to speak with a Medicare-enrolled healthcare professional to understand what colostomy supplies are medically necessary in their case. Medicare Part B will only cover colostomy ...

Most importantly, this procedure allows the surgeon to be very aggressive in not removing the anus, allowing patients to avoid having a permanent colostomy (bag). You can drink up to three hours ...

At the end of the gig he took off his shirt to reveal the colostomy bag and got a standing ovation. Green was 33 when he had the life-saving procedure. He said: "I was genuinely hours away from dying.

A British mountaineer who has a colostomy bag is set to lead a "major" Himalayan ... had to have an ostomy - a procedure to redirect the bowel to an exit through an opening in the abdomen wall.

Crohn's sufferer Bethany Townsend, 23, became an overnight internet sensation after an image she posted of herself in a bikini with a colostomy bag scored more than eleven million views on social ...