Hard, pebble-like gallstones may range in size from a grain of sand to a golf ball. A person could have one large gallstone or lots of smaller ones inside their gallbladder. Gallstones affect about 10 ...

The gallbladder is an expandable pear-shaped organ located beneath your liver. The gallbladder stores bile — a dark green fluid that helps your body digest and absorb food. Sometimes this process is ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - You may have heard people say they were having a gallbladder attack or perhaps you have suffered one yourself and not known what it is. Basically, gallstones make themselves known ...

Your gallbladder is a pear-sized organ found beneath your liver on the right side of your abdominal cavity. Its function is to store bile produced in your liver and secrete it into your small ...

Scientists from the University of Copenhagen and elsewhere found that drinking coffee may help reduce the risk of gallstone ...

About an hour or so ago, you ate a lot of chicken wings for a late dinner and then had a big bowl of ice cream for dessert. Now you are very uncomfortable in your stomach. You can't sleep and you ...

AJR: Recent multisociety guidelines that propose routine polyp surveillance with 2 mm size change as the basis for cholecystectomy are too conservative for clinical use “To our knowledge,” wrote ...

The gallbladder is a small organ that plays a vital role in digesting the foods you eat. You may need to follow a gallbladder ...