Earlier this summer, Bethany Townsend, a 23-year-old aspiring model from the United Kingdom, posted a photo on Facebook that soon went viral. The snapshot shows the young, dark-haired woman in a black ...

Xu Xiaozhao, a colon cancer survivor and Olympic torchbearer, has developed a free Android app aimed at improving professional nursing care for ostomy patients in China. The app consists of two parts, ...

What, you may wonder, is a wound, ostomy, continence, foot care nurse? Most people who ask what I do have had some type of experience with wound care, even if only an accidental cut, scrape or burn.

Ostomy patients using a new type of skin barrier product--infused with ceramides that play an essential role in the normal barrier function of the skin--experience lower costs of care, according to a ...

STUART — United Ostomy Associations of America (UOAA) estimates that 725,000 to 1 million people are living with an ostomy or continent diversion in the United States. An ostomy is a type of surgery ...

Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union County has started a support group for ostomy patients and their caregivers on the fourth Tuesday of every month from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the hospital, located at 200 ...

BRIDGEWATER, N.J. , March 31, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ConvaTec, a global medical solutions company focused on therapies for the management of chronic conditions, has been awarded a contract for ...

NEWARK, DE / ACCESSWIRE / February 20, 2023 / The global Stoma/Ostomy Care Market is anticipated to surge at an opulent CAGR of 4.9% throughout the forecast period from 2023 to 2033. The global market ...

Jennifer Vaughn’s patients are the ones other nurses don’t have the time and knowledge to educate, or the ones they don’t quite know how to handle. They are the patients who sometimes think the cure ...