Women are more likely than men to get an umbilical ... About 1 in 5 people get a hiatal hernia, half of whom are over 50. This is also the most common type of hernia among pregnant people.

This is the most common form of hernia and occurs in the groin area. Your chances of getting this type of hernia go up with ...

Hernias affect millions of people every year, yet many patients and even some medical professionals remain unaware of how the condition can present differently in men and women. A new report released ...

Hernias occur when an organ or tissue pushes through the barriers that normally contain it in the body, such as connective tissue. One type of hernia, a hiatal hernia, occurs when an existing opening ...

Alphonsus Matovu, Ph.D. student at the Reconstructive Plastic Surgery and Global Surgery research group, the Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, will defend his thesis "Groin Hernia Surgery ...

J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2013;28(3):415-431. Second, since both hiatal hernia and BE are recognized at endoscopy, there is the possibility of referral bias skewing the results towards a more ...

Atrial fibrillation (AF), gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and hiatal hernias are commonly seen in clinical practice. GERD and hiatal hernias have been proposed to be a possible cause of AF.

In a recent interview with Fox News Digital, Isaac further explained his stance on transgender athletes' eligibility in girls' and women's sports. "It's just a tough situation. There's an ethic ...

About a month ago, I woke up without hearing in my left ear. I initially suspected a wax blockage or a blocked eustachian ...

The diagnosis? A sports hernia. This condition also goes by many other names, including athletic pubalgia and Gilmore’s groin – after the late British surgeon Jerry Gilmore who was the first ...

Recently, to my surprise, I came down with bladder cancer. I am a healthy 66-year-old man who is 5 feet, 11 inches tall, 215 ...