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Patient empowerment often is about taking care into one's own hands. Usually that means making a lot of noise or at least asking a lot of questions. Less common is the entrepreneurial path in search ...

Louie wants to use his comedy platform to make things better for people using stoma bags A comedian has started showing his colostomy bag at his gigs to encourage more discussion about the topic.

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There's a new trend finding it's way across various social media sites, and it's all to do with a medical disorder. Crohn's is a debilitating bowel disease that has seen a rapid growth in sufferers in ...

Bowel cancer patients may avoid the need for colostomy bags if they are first treated by having an expandable tube inserted at the site of their blockage, cancer doctors have said. The new approach, ...

Louie Green, 35, had emergency bowel surgery for a diverticular disease. Green, from Felixstowe, Suffolk, said: "Not many people - especially men - will talk about it. So I'm like, 'Well, this is it.

A comedian has started showing his colostomy bag at his gigs to encourage more discussion about the topic. Louie Green, 35, had emergency bowel surgery for a diverticular disease. Green, from ...