Sara Levitt on the beach; Sara Levitt with a full ostomy bag. Sara Levitt is breaking barriers in more ways than one. A lifelong battle with Crohn’s disease and years of living with an ostomy haven’t ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jessica Grossman was faced with a difficult choice when she was 13 years old. "I was so sick that my intestines were basically ...

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 ...

Colostomy surgery creates an opening in your abdomen to pass waste, which collects in a bag. Some colostomies are temporary and can be reversed after healing, while others are permanent. Colostomy ...

I was 21 when I first became an ileostomy patient. An ileostomy is when the last part of the small intestine (ileum) is connected to a hole in the abdomen called a stoma, which allows stool to leave ...

Bethany Townsend never expected that a bikini photo she posted on Facebook would go viral, or that the support she received from thousands of people would reignite her dream to become a model.

Some rectal cancer patients might be spared surgery and the lifelong need for a colostomy bag if they undergo MRI screening, a new study finds. The scans might accurately predict which patients have a ...

BALTIMORE, MD – Jearlean Taylor doesn’t remember being diagnosed with cancer. She was just three years old when her sister noticed blood running down her leg as they played outside. After a series of ...

With this procedure, a surgically created opening in the abdomen allows bodily waste to be rerouted into what's called a stoma bag, or an ostomy bag, which needs to be emptied and cleaned periodically ...