Dear Doctor: My daughter had her gall bladder removed, and two months later she's still suffering from watery diarrhea. She even had to be hospitalized to restore her fluids. What does your gall ...

Polyps in the gall bladder are fairly rare - most gall bladder problems are caused by gallstones. As with gallstones, the decision whether or not to have the gall bladder removed depends on the ...

It was a few days after Christmas when 16-year-old Amanda Custer and her mom made a rare stop for a takeout burger. The indulgence ended badly for Amanda. Soon after, she said, “I felt real nauseous.

One of the commonest operations performed in Australia is gall bladder removal: the cholecystectomy, usually for gall stones. In the last few years though, the operation's been revolutionised and the ...

In vertebrates, the gallbladder is a small hollow organ where bile is stored and concentrated before it is released into the small intestine. In humans, the pear-shaped gallbladder lies beneath the ...

Gall bladder removal is one of the most widely performed surgeries in Australia, with about 18,000 a year - and this is what you need to know about this organ. Women are two to three times more likely ...

The following case is the third of such obstructions by blood-clot cast and presented several interesting problems in diagnosis and therapy. G.K., a 62-year-old housewife, was first seen in January, ...

My brother lost 50kgs over a 6 month period and then about a month afterwards, started having severe cramps. His GP discovered that his Gall Bladder was ready to burst and suggested it might have been ...

I'm guessing by gallbladder problems that you mean gall stones which are formed in the gallbladder from cholesterol. Gallstone attacks can cause extreme pain in the upper-right quarter of the abdomen, ...

HRT through skin patch sees fewer gallbladder problems than oral administration. A new study published on www.bmj.com reports that although hormone replacement therapy (HRT) results in an overall ...