Dear Dr. Roach • I have been hospitalized twice in the past year for a partial blockage in my bowel, where there is scar tissue. I did have a noncancerous polyp removed as well as part of my colon in ...

Pope Francis awoke Thursday after a good first night in the hospital following a three-hour operation to remove intestinal scar tissue and repair a hernia in his abdominal wall, problems that ...

ROME, Metropolitan City of Rome Capital — Pope Francis' was in “good general condition” Thursday, alert and breathing on his own, following a three-hour operation to remove intestinal scar tissue and ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis drank liquids, received the Eucharist and even made a brief phone call Thursday on his first full day recovering from a three-hour operation to remove intestinal scar tissue ...