The painful spasms of a gallbladder attack often begin suddenly (sometimes after eating a fatty meal) and may last several hours. The attack is caused by one or more gallstones getting stuck in the ...

How Michigan Medicine reduced opioid use 60% for gallbladder surgery patients Evidence-based opioid prescribing guidelines developed by researchers at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor reduced ...

In many institutions, when a patient is scheduled for surgery, the patient is contacted before the procedure and given instructions as to how to prepare for the surgery. This may be done by staff from ...

Less aggressive treatment will likely lead to better outcomes for people having their gallbladders removed, according to a pair of new studies. One study found that people with gallstones do better if ...

Abdominal pain associated with gallstones does not always subside after the gallbladder is removed (cholecystectomy). Even five years after surgery, one-third of patients still experience persisting ...

A robot has performed the first realistic surgery without human help. Johns Hopkins University researchers said Wednesday that the Surgical Robot Transformer-Hierarchy had trained on videos to conduct ...