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 ...

The gallbladder is a small pear-shaped organ that sits below the liver and stores bile produced in the liver. The body uses bile to digest fats in the small intestine. When individuals have problems ...

Gallbladder cancer is a rare and often aggressive malignancy that develops in the tissues of the gallbladder — a small, ...

For five years, my patient has been experiencing several episodes a year of what appears to be biliary colic — severe epigastric and right-upper-quadrant abdominal pain that begins shortly after ...

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 ...

Jaundice coupled with abdominal pain signals a potential bile duct obstruction, a serious condition requiring immediate ...

1. Jill Duggar revealed she had surgery to remove her gallbladder, a common procedure that's associated with gallstones, one month after giving birth to her third child. 2. Common symptoms of ...

The gallbladder is an organ beneath the liver that stores bile, which is secreted by the liver and then released into the intestine. Produced by the liver to digest fat, bile helps the body absorb fat ...

Surgeons found the gallstone was so big that it took up most of the space in his gallbladder — the organ that stores bile, ...

Dear Doctor: How necessary is the gallbladder? I recently had two flare-ups of what turned out to be gallbladder attacks. My doctor said that if I have another attack, he would recommend removal of ...

Acalculous cholecystitis is an inflammation of the gallbladder that does not occur due to gallstones. Acalculous cholecystitis can be life threatening and requires prompt medical care. It may occur as ...