Your gallbladder may seem like a mysterious part of your body. What does it do, anyway? Until you have gallbladder pain, you may not even consider it much. The gallbladder is shaped like a pear. It's ...

Chances are you barely know what your gallbladder is, let alone the gallbladder attack symptoms to look out for. When you have really bad stomach pain, it’s easy to chalk it up to that double bean ...

Ozempic® can cause gallbladder diseases, including gallstones and gallbladder inflammation. Gallbladder problems are rare — 0 ...

Your gallbladder is a small organ below your liver that stores bile, a green-yellow liquid that helps your digestive system. When something is blocking the bile duct, such as a gallstone, pain can ...

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was recently released from the hospital after being diagnosed and treated for acute cholecystitis — a benign gallbladder condition. While acute cholecystitis ...

Gallbladder cancer is a relatively rare cancer that’s usually diagnosed in an advanced stage. Symptoms often don’t appear until the cancer grows large or spreads. The American Cancer Society estimates ...

If you’re among the 20 million Americans living with gallstones, chances are you’re familiar with the abdominal pain and discomfort associated with gallbladder disease. As a surgeon who frequently ...

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Gallbladder disease refers to several conditions that affect the health and function of the gallbladder—a small, pear-shaped organ that plays an important role in the digestive system. The gallbladder ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- A Frankford woman found out the hard way not to ignore stomach pain. Shakina Hawkins said she feared going to the hospital because of the pandemic and because of that her ...

Doctors don’t know exactly what causes gallbladder cancer. They do know that, like all cancer, an error, known as a mutation, in a person’s DNA causes uncontrolled rapid growth of cells. As the number ...