Because of stigmas, misinformation and social discomfort, ostomies often are not discussed. But with nearly 750,000 people living in the United States with one, it’s time for that dialogue to begin.

Two years after it developed a prototype, digital health startup 11Health officially launched its flagship product to alert people who use an ostomy pouch when they need to empty the contents. Michael ...

Jessica Grossman was faced with a difficult choice when she was 13 years old. "I was so sick that my intestines were basically septic and the doctors gave me the option to have ostomy surgery," she ...

SAGINAW, MI — Before Shontee R. McMillan was a model, she was self-conscious, depressed and suicidal as a result of a surgery that left her with an ostomy bag. She was diagnosed with rectal cancer in ...

Sara Levitt is a model and content creator with over 43,000 followers on Instagram The 30-year-old is also a Crohn's disease and ostomy advocate For 15 years, she kept her ostomy bag hidden from the ...

A stoma is an opening from an area inside your body to the outside, according to the U.S. National Library of Medicine. (Photo: Getty Images) You may not know the word for it, but odds are you've seen ...

More than 500,000 Americans have some type of stoma, an abdominal opening where waste from the small or large intestine is routed following surgery, according to data attributed to the United Ostomy ...

As part of CURE®’s Heal at Home series, we offer a guide on ostomies following surgery and how patients can best care for their stomas. These are just some of the questions that Stephanie S. Yates, a ...

Cassidy Bargell is a trailblazer at the Women’s Rugby World Cup. She is playing for the United States wearing an ostomy bag. The Boston Banshees scrum-half, who came on for the closing half hour of ...

You may not know the word for it, but odds are you've seen a stoma bag before. But while these pouches can be lifesavers for people with certain health conditions, there's a lot the general public ...