A stoma is an opening in your belly's wall that a surgeon makes in order for waste to leave your body if you can't have a bowel movement through your rectum. You might get one if you have ...

Poppy Williams, 27, from Cardiff, is documenting her experience of living with a stoma bag – including shopping for a wedding ...

Stomatal closure occurs in response to a variety of stresses, including high CO 2 levels, darkness, low air humidity, drought and ozone 6,7.Both groups find that plants with a mutated SLAC1 gene ...

Poppy Williams, 27, had a stoma put in after emergency surgery in December 2021.

TransPennine Express (TPE) announced this week that all of its accessible station toilets would have disposal facilities to be "stoma friendly". TPE accessibility lead Chris Jeffery said the ...

The process involves putting water into your colon through the stoma, causing the colon to empty. Irrigation is most effective about an hour after a meal, which is when the colon is most likely to ...

A specialist nurse has led the creation of new guidance on sexual intimacy for people with stomas. Kyle Waring, a stoma care nurse specialist based at the Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership ...

A woman diagnosed with rectal cancer who was faced with the possibility of having a stoma for the rest of her life has said ...

Using contact X-ray brachytherapy (CXB) to deliver radiation directly to the tumour can prevent the need for a stoma.