Your gallbladder is located just underneath your liver and releases fat-digesting bile into the duodenum when you eat. There are several conditions that can affect your gallbladder, such as gallstones ...

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, sa ...

Over a period of two years, two hundred and twenty patients with symptomatic gallstones were admitted for cholecystectomy. There were 193 females and 27 males with a male to female ratio of 1:7. The ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I was diagnosed with Gilbert syndrome after I had a blockage of my common bile duct and became jaundiced. This was three months after I had my gallbladder removed (via an open surgery) ...

Robots trained by watching expert surgeons can now perform complex operations with little human help. This breakthrough is happening right now. For the first time, an autonomous surgical robot ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a soon-to-be 85-year-old healthy woman. I take a statin and baby aspirin (I assume because of my age) and have my gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) under control. I have ...

Attorney General John D. Ashcroft was released from the hospital yesterday, less than a week after undergoing surgery to remove his gallbladder. Ashcroft, 61, left George Washington University ...

Dear Dr. Roach: My husband's doctor is telling him to have his gallbladder removed because sometimes he has pain in his right side. They did all kind of tests, but he has pain when he drives long ...

People 60 and older who are excessively sleepy during the day may have more problems with memory and thinking after surgery, ...