A perforated bowel is a serious condition, and immediate action such as surgery needs to be taken to prevent infection and death. Bacteria and stool from the bowel can spill into the abdominal cavity, ...

MINNEAPOLISMINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota jail workers ignored the pleas of a 41-year-old man who died of a perforated bowel after spending days begging to be taken to a hospital, with pain so severe that he ...

Ruby Jones, Gregory Trimble, Dianna Moore, Tim Bell as Personal Representatives of the Estate of Alta Mae Trimble v. William T. Dowling and Chesapeake Urology Associates, ...

Health Canadahas revised prescribing information for the medication Rituxan after some people taking the drugfor non-Hodgkin's lymphoma developed potentially life-threatening bowel obstruction or ...

A federal lawsuit filed last month brings to light another instance of a mentally ill Arkansas inmate dying in custody for what his family says was an ongoing lack of adequate medical care. Jeffrey ...

A Passaic County medical malpractice suit filed by a 54-year-old Totowa man and his wife, Dominianni v. Warta, M.D., after an elective hernia repair, resulted in a $2.25 million settlement with the ...

A Colorado man unintentionally swallowed a toothpick mixed into his meal at a Greeley restaurant that later perforated his bowel, he alleges in a lawsuit filed Tuesday. Mikel Salgado claimed he was ...