For you as a professional clinician, the challenge is to protect safety and realism while still respecting their motivation.

The abdominal aorta carries blood from the heart to organs in the lower body. It splits into the right and left common iliac arteries near the pelvis. The wall of the abdominal aorta is made of three ...

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Gastric (stomach) cancer remains one of the most common and deadly cancers in East Asia, including Korea. Yet despite its high prevalence, it has received far less molecular attention than colorectal ...

Doctors say just 1 in 30,000 pregnancies occur in the abdomen instead of the uterus. And Ryu Lopez is among the rare cases.

When I was about 6 years old in the early ‘40s, my 16-year-old brother was sent to a sanitarium for tuberculosis patients. He ...

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

UCSF researchers showed that estrogen can turn on pain signals in the gut, offering new insights into conditions like ...

Q: My daughter got her period at age 8 and started to develop breasts. It freaked her out and me too! And she’s not the only ...

Dr. Anju Goel, MD, MPH, is a public health consultant and physician with more than 10 years of experience in the California public health system. The pancreas is an organ that makes enzymes for ...

But what if you experience unpleasant side effects like stomach pain after eating fruit (along with other digestive symptoms)? To help you get to the bottom of your aches, here are the potential ...

Intense pain during a bowel movement sent our son to the ER. He got diagnosed with a blood clot in a hemorrhoid and needed surgery to fix it.