HER miracle came decades later. In all those years, she never lost hope. Now 67, Gogo Esther Maxaba is a true example of resilience. Married off at a very young age and never attended school, she fled ...

A closely watched clinical trial in Britain that screened blood for early detection of cancer did not show a reduction in diagnoses at later stages of the disease. By Rebecca Robbins and Gina Kolata A ...

"No cancer signal detected." The blood test results popped up in my online health portal without much fanfare. A doctor would chat about them with me later, congratulating me on the "phew"-worthy ...

A rectovaginal fistula develops when an abnormal tunnel forms between the vagina and rectum inside a woman’s body. This opening allows waste material and gas to pass from the rectum into the vagina, ...

A simple, though not necessarily easy, test may help predict how many years a person has left, according to exercise researchers who have been tracking thousands of middle-aged and older people for ...

GALWAY, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Signum Surgical, a medical technology company dedicated to advancing the treatment of colorectal diseases, today announced the publication of first-in-human clinical ...

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An anal fistula is a tunnel that develops from the inside of the anus to the skin outside. It usually starts near blocked or infected anal glands and forms an abscess (a pus-filled pocket). Pus and ...

AVB-114 consists of stem cells taken from a patient’s fat tissue seeded into a bioabsorbable plug that is inserted into the patient’s fistula. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast ...

Opinion Columnist, reporting from Nairobi, Kenya. One of the most dangerous things a woman can do in much of the world is become pregnant, and the risks caught up with a Kenyan named Alice Wanjiru a ...

As the nation experiences what many experts believe is the second-largest wave of COVID infections since the pandemic started, many Americans will be checking to make sure they don’t have the ...