A UK woman withdrew from the New York City Marathon after not being allowed to wear a vest with her colostomy bag — and she is now alleging discrimination. Gayle Redmon, a medical doctor from Flint, ...

Matthew Perry said having to use a colostomy bag — an external bag for feces to be stored — for a year helped him kick his drug addiction. The “Friends” alum revealed that his “gastrointestinal ...

Question: My mother had colon cancer and, after her colostomy, was told to wear a colostomy bag to remove body waste. The odor is very bad and we want to give her something that could help. What is ...

Cassidy Bargell is a trailblazer at the Women’s Rugby World Cup. She is playing for the United States wearing an ostomy bag. The Boston Banshees scrum-half, who came on for the closing half hour of ...

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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, ...

On his first flight following a colostomy for ulcerative colitis, my patient noted distension of his ostomy bag as his plane reached its cruising altitude of 35,000 feet. He barely made it to the rest ...

When doctors told her an ostomy was necessary to survive, it felt like there was no real choice. It was either life with an ostomy bag or the risk of dying. Levitt agreed to the temporary ostomy, but ...