The object was discovered later, requiring emergency surgery and resulting in severe health complications for the patient.

The doctor dismissed the couple's concerns saying it was a hematoma (blood clot) and not a foreign object, and also brushed ...

A Puttur private hospital doctor is accused of medical negligence for allegedly leaving a surgical mop inside a woman during ...

Bile reflux gastritis (BRG) is a gastro-intestinal condition especially characterized by the reflux of bile into the stomach, further leading to mucosal inflammation along with various other clinical ...

Adults with obesity who underwent Roux-en-Y gastric bypass achieved a greater excess BMI loss at 10 years compared with those ...

Many patients are unaware that the Stretta minimally-invasive endoscopy procedure can also be used to treat refractory GERD.

Gastric cancer, or stomach cancer, is a type of cancer that begins in the mucus-producing cells on the inside lining of the stomach. The most common type of stomach cancer is adenocarcinoma.

In a comparison study, benefits of nurse-led preoperative counseling and follow-up care was significantly greater compared with surgeon-led or no counseling models.

It was not easy to do the operation at all. The patient’s stomach had become like a balloon and there were coins everywhere. In the operation theatre, we searched for the coins through CR and then ...

"Once I hit my goal weight, I knew my first loose skin surgery had to be my stomach," she says. "I had a lot of excess skin hanging from my abdomen after three pregnancies and massive weight loss, and ...