The most common treatment for gallstones is removing your gallbladder. The gallbladder is not an essential organ, which means that you can live normally without one. It is a storage organ for bile.

People might attribute midnight bouts of chest pain or waves of nausea to food poisoning, stress or a stubborn case of indigestion, but Rutgers Health researchers suggest that knowing your family's ...

Gallbladder surgery typically results in three or four small scars on your abdomen. These may disappear eventually, but you can take steps to help the healing process and minimize their appearance.

As hospitals increasingly look for patient-friendly ways to enhance surgical care, calming music in the operating theatre is ...

Recovery from gallbladder surgery is usually quick and has few complications. You can live without a gallbladder while making some changes to your diet or lifestyle. Gallbladder removal surgery ...

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MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Levita Magnetics, a company with a mission to improve access to better surgery for more patients, today announced that the first ever robotic-assisted surgical ...