Dr Amir Khan is known for sharing health advice on ITV shows like Lorraine. He recently opened up about the best way to sit ...

The dog was brought to the clinic by a man who claimed to have found her abandoned behind the Co-op store on Warrington Road in Platt Bridge. Ms Platt said: "This dog was in such a terrible condition ...

A GoFundMe campaign has been launched to save a six-week-old puppy who needs urgent surgery for a rectal prolapse.

A rectal spacer is a gel that doctors inject between the prostate and rectum before radiation therapy to specifically target and reduce side effects of the treatment such as bladder leakage and rectal ...

Adenomatous polyps typically do not cause symptoms unless they progress to colon cancer. Even then, there may be no sign of a problem until the malignancy is advanced. This is why colon cancer ...

Proctitis affects the rectum, whereas ulcerative colitis can affect the colon, the rectum, or both parts of the intestine. Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a form of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD ...

All had history of full-thickness rectal prolapse for at least 12 months period. The topography of the cases is summarized in Table 1. Male to female ratio was 2:1 and the average age was 21.5 years.

Q: I’M a 78-year-old woman and have lived with a prolapsed rectum for about two years. When I first discovered it, during a toilet visit, I was scared and worried. It is protruding through the ...

Background Rectal prolapse is a known problem since antiquity and the cause is not fully understood. Despite the presence of more than 100 lines of treatment, none of them is ideal. Methods ...

When she was told she could no longer exercise, go running or even pick up her toddler, Pilates instructor Holly Puddephatt thought life as she'd known it was over. The fit and active 37-year-old ...

1 Department of Surgery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada 2 Department of Surgery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada Background: The optimal approach for the ...