Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Out of 89 patients with bowel obstruction after ingesting water beads, 84% had to undergo abdominal surgery.

Water-absorbing beads have become increasingly hazardous to children over the past 10 years, as children who swallow the beads can experience life-threatening problems such as bowel obstruction. In ...

A new possibility has opened up for the early screening of pediatric emergencies such as intussusception using only abdominal ...

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 ...

FACT: Persistent or recurrent vomiting in children, especially green or bile-stained vomiting, is not normal and can be a ...

Wu Tsai Neuro Faculty Scholar Julia Kaltschmidt and MD/Ph.D. candidate Lori Dershowitz propose a novel theory that could transform our understanding of pediatric gastrointestinal (GI) motility ...

• The speed with which surgical intervention is initiated significantly impacts survival rates; delays longer than 72 hours correlate with a higher risk of mortality. • While bowel obstruction surgery ...