Ostomy care can lead to a lot of questions for patients and their family members that may be difficult to ask. University of ...

This is Chapter 3 in the Wellness Memoir. Catch up on previous chapters here.

Importantly, Convatec has made steady progress to move beyond earlier setbacks in the form of packaging recalls, inventory shortages, and manufacturing glitches. We think the improvements reflect CEO ...

Now 82 years old, Lorrie Pismenny has trained new volunteers, served as secretary and was appointed president for more than a decade of the Ostomy Manitoba Association.

She received an ostomy bag in 2022 after years of pills, injections and hospital visits failed to help. Following her own experience with rheumatoid arthritis, Destiny Pinto started a fashion ...

Now she has a permanent stoma and ostomy bag - but feels like she’s "living her best life" despite initial fears. Charlie, a fitness professional, from Salisbury, Wiltshire, said: “I’d ...

(Photo Credit: iStock/Getty Images) A colostomy bag is a type of ostomy bag. Ostomy is the term for a surgery that creates an opening in your body for waste to pass through, called a stoma.

PITTSBURGH, PA, UNITED STATES, November 5, 2024 /EINPresswire / -- Crystal G. of Boerne, TX is the creator of Colosto-Collect, an ...

such as the pouches that collect waste. The assistive devices program pays $975 per ostomy per year, but the average annual cost for supplies is around $2,500, said Ian MacNeil, who does advocacy ...

Anne Inch, from Netherburn in South Lanarkshire, was out shopping in Glasgow with her pal when her bag came off "due to the ...