Doctors say digestive discomfort, bloating and pain after fatty meals may be early clues that your gallbladder deserves ...

Repeated attacks usually don’t go away on their own, and planned care is often easier than an emergency.

Most people rarely, if ever, think about their gallbladders. But Ozempic® (semaglutide) has brought the small organ into the spotlight. Gallbladder diseases, like gallstones and gallbladder ...

The next time you complain of gastric pain, think twice before dismissing it offhand. That sporadic pain in the centre of your upper central abdomen, which seems to get worse at times, could be a ...

The gallbladder is a small, grape sized, organ attached to the digestive tract. It secretes a fluid called bile into it in response to a meal. Bile emulsifies dietary fats by increasing their exposure ...

Replacing red and processed meat (80 g/wk) with legumes was associated with a lower rate of gallbladder disease, according to a UK Biobank study. Over a median follow-up duration of 10.5 years, 3772 ...

Media reports in recent years about an excess risk for gallbladder disease with the oral contraceptive drospirenone (Yasmin, Bayer) are unfounded, data indicate. “Any excess risk associated with the ...

The gallbladder acts as a storage reservoir for bile, a fluid essential for breaking down dietary fats. Biliary colic often strikes after fatty meals when the organ contracts against a blockage. Pain ...

Gallbladder problems are common, but in recent years health care providers have noticed a noticeable rise in gallbladder cases. Christina Arp, nurse practitioner with Prisma Health General Surgery, ...

Gall bladder surgery is the most common surgery in America, but it is not uncommon for gallstone pain to be mistaken for a heart attack. Dr. Jeff Johnson of Seton Southwest Hospital spoke to KVUE ...

This study aimed to examine the association between the triglyceride-glucose (TyG) index, TyG-BMI index, and gallbladder disease (GBD) among Uyghurs in the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps ...