Bile is made in the liver and then stored in the gallbladder. A painful obstruction that results from an abnormally functioning sphincter ... The presence of stones within the common bile duct.

Biliary tract cancer (BTC), a rare malignancy that grows within the bile ducts and gallbladder, grows very aggressively. The fast progression associated with BTC makes it challenging to treat and ...

FOR the 6,000 people in the UK who are newly diagnosed with bile duct cancer every year, the prognosis is uniquely grim. According to data from Cancer Research UK, up to 70 per cent of all these ...

Your gallbladder is a small organ attached to your liver. Its primary function is to store bile, a type of digestive fluid. During digestion, the gallbladder releases bile into the small intestine to ...

While studying mouse and human liver tumors, they discovered that certain bile acids in the liver could affect the activity of cancer-fighting immune cells, called T cells. The researchers ...

While studying mouse and human liver tumors, they discovered that certain bile acids in the liver could affect the activity of cancer-fighting immune cells, called T cells. The researchers ...

Untreated biliary colic can lead to serious complications such as gallbladder inflammation, bile duct inflammation, jaundice (yellow-tinted skin and eyes), and pancreatitis (inflammation of the ...

Nasolacrimal duct stenosis due to inflammatory edema further impedes outflow and, thereby, exacerbates flow symptoms. The imbalance of tear production and clearance is often compounded by minor ...

A busy A-road in Somerset is currently closed in both directions due to an obstruction in the road. Traffic is building in the area as the A359 near Bruton is closed between Hassocks Lane and ...

Now, work led by Sheng-Cai Lin, Chen-Song Zhang, and Xianming Deng of Xiamen University in China links the benefits of calorie restriction to a bile acid called lithocholic acid, which works by ...