A coroner has said that the death of a man sectioned at Bethlem Royal Hospital raises questions as to whether high risk patients should get ...

The Bethlem patient died at Croydon University Hospital after becoming constipated and unintentionally inhaling the contents of his own stomach ...

BACKGROUND: Adhesive small bowel obstruction is one of the most common causes of surgical emergencies, representing about 15% of hospital admissions. Defining the need and timing of surgical ...

Priscilla Presley has explained why she was appalled by her daughter Lisa Marie’s marriage to Michael Jackson. Priscilla, 80, has opened up about the 1994 marriage in her new memoir, recalling the ...

Bowel cancer - which also includes rectal and colon cancer - is one of the most aggressive and hard to treat forms of the disease.

OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to investigate the ability of the biomarkers to predict the surgery treatment and mortality in patients above 18 years of age who were hospitalized with the diagnosis of ...

If you're unable to pass gas or stool, the first thought that is likely to come to your mind is constipation, which could be the case but not always. A more severe form of blockage is bowel ...

US pharmaceutical giant Merck is scrapping a planned £1bn expansion of its UK operations, saying the government is not investing enough in the sector. The multi-national business, known as MSD in ...

A grandad died from bowel cancer after doctors didn't act on his symptoms twice, believing it was haemorrhoids - sommonly known as piles. James Beasley first attended a GP surgery in March 2020 ...

A phytobezoar is an accumulation of indigestible fruit and vegetable fibers in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Small bowel obstruction (SBO) caused by phytobezoars is infrequent, and pear-induced ...

Though it feels like almost every “healthy recipe” video I watch focuses on protein, lots of us are actually likely to be overdoing it on the nutrient. Only 10% of us, meanwhile, eat enough fibre (the ...