Maintaining healthy skin around a stoma is one of the most critical components of long-term ostomy management. Over the years ...

The shift from planar SoCs to 3D-ICs and advanced packages requires much thinner wafers in order to improve performance and reduce power, reducing the distance that signals need to travel and the ...

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 ...

All ostomies include a pouch and a wafer that helps protect the skin from irritation. When you need an ostomy, you may face a number of complex lifestyle challenges. Your concerns may be about the ...

A stoma is an opening created in the wall of the abdomen during surgery that allows waste to leave the body if you can't have a bowel movement through the rectum. Waste is passed into a pouch outside ...

A nurse at the Wrexham Maelor Hospital has launched Three Bags Full – a new stoma support group for north east Wales. Tom Russell, a Stoma Nurse at the Wrexham hospital, set up the group as he saw ...

More than 176,000 people in the UK are living with a stoma, according to NHS data Coloplast has announced the launch of its world-first digital leakage notification system, Heylo, to benefit patients ...

There are many types of ostomy products on the market today, and every person with an ostomy will probably use a different combination to get the right fit and to protect against leaks. However, there ...

To fit a new bag, at first you need to cut a hole in the wafer or adhesive patch to fit your stoma. When your stoma has settled in size, you can get bags that are pre cut to fit. The more accurate the ...

There are two ostomy bag systems: a one-piece and a two-piece. Both systems have a pouch that collects waste as well as a skin barrier (also called a flange, wafer, or baseplate) that sticks to ...