Michelle Black was told she had beaten bile duct cancer but doctors found another tumour just a few weeks later ...

Gallbladder cancer, a highly aggressive disease, often goes undiagnosed until advanced stages due to nonspecific symptoms and ...

A woman from Co Armagh diagnosed with cancer while in Turkey for surgery to aid weight loss has described the devastating ...

Toni Rankin passed away at the age of 45 on February 10, just months after she started experiencing severe abdomen pain, with ...

Symptoms include persistent abdominal or back pain, unexplained weight loss, jaundice (yellowing of the skin and eyes), loss ...

Treatment involves cholecystectomy and bowel resection. Mirizzi’s syndrome is the result of a gallstone blocking the cystic duct, compressing the common bile duct and causing inflammation. ERCP is ...

Pooping can have physiological and psychological effects that may feel pleasurable. Passing a bowel movement involves tension in certain muscles. Relaxing the muscles after a motion stimulates the ...

They help break down food, absorb its nutrients, and turn it into waste. A bowel obstruction is when something blocks digested food, liquid, or waste from passing through your intestines.

An incomplete bowel movement—the feeling that you still have to poop, even when you don't—can be uncomfortable and frustrating. Also known as incomplete evacuation, it is a hallmark of irritable bowel ...

It often produces no symptoms in the early stages, but people should see a doctor if they notice persistent changes in bowel habits. The colon, or large intestine, is at the end of the digestive ...

Lifestyle strategies and medications can also offer some relief. Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) isn’t the same for everyone. While some suffer from constipation, others deal with diarrhea.

Vanessa Mendico thought bowel cancer was an old person's disease. That is, until she got it herself. "The only thing I knew about bowel cancer was the kits that my parents got in the mail ...