My friend had a stoma created after years of managing Crohn’s disease. She recently had surgery to repair a hernia. What is a stoma, and are these types of hernias common? What is the typical ...

Nigel Parsley ruled earlier this month that there had been a 'missed opportunity' to save the life of Thomas Glover, 71, who ...

They include cancer treatment; inflammatory bowel disease; chronic or severe coughing; and complications from pregnancy (diastasis recti) and surgery. The most common problems are hernias ...

A father was left heartbroken after being diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer before reading ... embolisms in both lungs and an incisional hernia. Fortunately, his treatment was successful ...

A relatively small hernia will permit the lowest part of the gullet to slide upward into the chest, while a larger one will let part of the stomach slide up (hence the synonym “sliding hernia ...

There are two main types of hiatal hernias. A sliding hiatal hernia, the most common by far, occurs when the gastroesophageal junction protrudes above the diaphragm. A paraesophageal hiatal hernia ...