Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

If you have a bowel obstruction, you may experience nausea, bloating, and other digestive symptoms. It can be a serious health condition and often requires emergency care. Bowel obstruction is a ...

In this Journal feature, information about a real patient is presented in stages (boldface type) to an expert clinician, who responds to the information by sharing relevant background and reasoning ...

Most constipation is harmless. In rare cases, the colon can become dangerously enlarged. Here is what you need to know.

Bowel obstruction typically occurs in people with advanced and recurrent ovarian cancer. When cancer spreads to the abdominal cavity, tumors may block a person’s intestines, causing digested food and ...