Background: The management of coincidental detected gallbladder polyps (GP) is still nebulous. There are few published data regarding their long-term growth. Objective of the present study was to ...

Gallstones Hard stones that are made of crystallized cholesterol, pigment, or a mixture of the two. Gallstones can be as small as a grain of sand to as large as a golf ball. When gallstones cause ...

1Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California.

Well, for one thing, your cholesterol levels could reach such stratospheric levels that lipids start oozing from your blood vessels, forming yellowish nodules on your skin. That was the disturbing ...

Jan. 21, 2025 – Bernadette McLaughlin is 66 years old, walks 10 miles most days, eats mainly vegetables and tofu, and her standard cholesterol panel looks generally healthy. But there was one ...

A new study has identified a protein that helps drive bladder cancer by triggering the synthesis of cholesterol via mouse and cell models. Researchers found that a combination therapy of two drugs ...

Caíque de Abreu/Getty Images A new study has identified a protein that helps drive bladder cancer by triggering the synthesis of cholesterol via mouse and cell models. Researchers found that a ...

0000000000016404 Jessri M, Rashidkhani B. Dietary patterns and risk of gallbladder disease: a hospital-based case-control study in adult women. J Health Popul Nutr. 2015;33(1):39-49. Di Ciaula A, ...

Now, cancer biologists at the Salk Institute have discovered that PIN1 is a significant driver of bladder cancer and revealed that it works by triggering the synthesis of cholesterol—a membrane ...