All 50-74-year-olds in England will now receive a home-testing kit for bowel cancer every two years. NHS England has been posting the faecal-immunochemical test (Fit) to all 54-74-year-olds since ...

Hundreds of thousands more people will be sent a home-testing kit that can help to detect signs of bowel cancer, as the NHS expands its lifesaving screening programme to those aged 50 in England.

There are now 234 cases of students with the stomach flu at the University of Guelph in southern Ontario, and at least one of those is a lab-confirmed case of norovirus. Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph ...

Spontaneous perforation of pyometra is a rare pathologic condition that presents as diffuse peritonitis. This report describes an interesting case of spontaneous uterine perforation that mimicked ...

D.V. (S.V.H. 095520), a 56-year-old man, was admitted to the hospital for the 21st time on July 15, 1960, because of spontaneous perforation of the umbilicus 1 hour previously.

The symptoms typically get worse the longer you go without a bowel movement. In severe cases, fecal impaction can turn into a medical emergency in situations where colon perforation and subsequent ...

It wasn't until the 36-year-old demanded a CT scan that her tumour was found (SWNS) Zoe went on to demand a full body scan, which revealed that she had a perforation on her bowel and needed to be ...

A woman diagnosed with stage four cancer has shared the hidden symptoms that were initially dismissed by doctors. Unfortunately, it feels all too common that we hear about someone’s health being ...

Additionally, albendazole is not effective against Strongyloides stercoralis, another helminth that has been added to the list of intestinal parasites requiring control measures. To address these ...

Now, experts have discovered that having a glass a day can also slash your risk of bowel cancer by nearly a fifth, according to a study of more than half-a-million women. An additional 300mg of ...

A large UK study has found further evidence that people with more calcium in their diet - equivalent to a glass of milk a day - can help reduce their risk of bowel cancer. The researchers analysed ...