Dystocia may occur with maternal or fetal causes. Maternal causes include primary uterine inertia, birth canal obstruction, ...

A MUM thought she’d caught a stomach bug from snotty kids – until doctors told her she was “12 hours from death”. Chloe ...

If you’ve ever come across water beads, you know how mesmerizing they can be—tiny, colorful balls that expand dramatically ...

Inflammatory bowel disease is a chronic condition of unknown origin characterized by severe inflammation and mucosal destruction in the intestine. There are two main forms: Crohn s disease ...

A NEW method for detecting bowel cancer is more than 90 per cent accurate at predicting which higher risk people will develop ...

Water bead toys have the potential to cause not only intestinal obstruction in children who ingest them, but also neurotoxicity, a case study suggested. A 13-month-old female who was previously ...

Prolonged constipation can result in an intestinal obstruction or blockage ... Either condition may require surgery. A person may also need surgery when constipation results from a structural ...

Bowel habits vary from person to person. However, sudden changes can indicate an underlying health condition, such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) or inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). For some ...

The successful management of intestinal obstruction depends on early diagnosis. A judicious and timely use of both medical and surgical therapies has been proposed for improving outcomes.

Ms Oda said one of the first warning signs was a subtle, but troubling change in her bowel movements ... like — can be a sign of narrowing or obstruction in the colon, often linked to colorectal ...

Results: We recorded 644 patients diagnosed with non-conservatively managed bowel obstruction. Four hundred forty-one (67.3%) were managed only by surgery, 157 (23.6%) were managed by colonoscopy ...