Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

A 2016 study from the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston found that a soap suds enema made from diluted castile soap was not only effective but safe in children with fecal impaction. However, it is ...

The Division of Surgery aims to improve outcomes for patients undergoing surgical treatment of disease through the transfer of technology into clinical practice. This is being achieved by harnessing ...

When colon and rectal cancer spread to another part of the body it is called metastatic or advanced bowel cancer. A team of doctors and other professionals discuss the best treatment and care for you.

All 50-74-year-olds in England will now receive a home-testing kit for bowel cancer every two years ... found to be early-stage cancer. Keyhole surgery removed it, in July, and Mr Ball is now ...

“The scans revealed that I had stage 2 cancer, but luckily it hadn’t spread. I elected to have bowel resection surgery later that summer, but stayed positive given it had been caught early. “I spent ...

Brekafast is boiled eggs and oatcakes if on the go, or a overnight oats with seeds After undergoing surgery for bowel cancer, I’ve found it helpful to eat my meals within a narrow window ...

Fecal impaction is treated by medications to soften the stool and encourage it to pass, as well as enemas, digital disimpaction, other procedures, and surgery in more severe cases. Most mild to ...

The “Undetectable Era” is a phrase mentioned in a viral TikTok by Prem Tripathi, MD, a plastic surgeon in the Bay Area who had noticed the rise of a kind of surgery where you’re “really ...

The standard treatment approach for bowel cancer typically involves a combination of surgery to remove any tumours, alongside chemotherapy or radiation therapy. What treatment a patient receives will ...

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice found a gynecologist surgeon negligent for failing to detect and repair a bowel perforation during a 2015 laparoscopic surgery, resulting in life-threatening ...

A 32-year-old woman is cancer-free after undergoing the UK's first liver transplant for advanced bowel cancer ... chemotherapy and surgery, the transplant has been a huge success and Ms Perea ...