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 ...

and Cumulative detection rate of neoplastic gallbladder polyps. Cumulative detection rate of neoplastic polyps was 1.7% at 1 year, 2.8% at 5 years, and 4% at 8 years after diagnosis.

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, ...

The American Cancer Society’s estimates for cancer of the gallbladder and nearby large bile ducts in the United States for 2025 are: About 12,610 new cases diagnosed: 6,040 in men and 6,570 in women ...

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 lipid ...