Abdominal wall hernias through a standard midline laparotomy occur at high rates, in the range of 10%. Primary repair of such hernia defects has been associated with recurrence rates in the range of ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A Kanawha County circuit judge says she’ll decide at a later date if the state’s health care provider for jail inmates was in contempt of court by not abiding by an order calling ...

Deputies in Kanawha County are asking for the public’s help finding a teenage boy who has been reported missing.Joseph Lawrence, 14, was last seen about 10:30 a West Virginia Senate bill would ...

Yale University, Lawrence & Memorial Hospital and other medical providers were hit with a wrongful death and medical malpractice lawsuit on Dec. 10 in Connecticut Superior Court for New Haven ...

Doctors may recommend a colostomy if the bowel becomes diseased or damaged. This procedure involves cutting into the abdominal wall to drain stool from the colon. Any surgery ending in “ostomy” ...

Medical malpractice: Suit alleges that medical negligence during a colostomy reversal surgery resulted in improper stapler placement causing rectal damage, leading to respiratory failure, permanent ...