The gallbladder plays a quiet but critical role in digestion, and when this organ malfunctions, it sends specific distress signals that require attention.

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Chronic physical pain is one of the greatest challenges a person can face. Here’s why anger can preclude relief and recovery.

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Teresa Sanchez was in Mexico for a medical procedure nearly four years ago when she kept feeling dry, poking sensations in her right eye. She chalked it up to a potential rip in her contact lens, the ...

Alzheimer’s disease is one of humanity’s most formidable foes. It affects 10 percent of people over age 65 and kills more people each year than breast cancer and prostate cancer combined. Its effects ...

Health officials in the mid-Atlantic region have recently reported a rise in hand, foot and mouth disease, or HFMD. What is hand, foot and mouth disease, and what causes it? How is it spread? What are ...

Treatment-resistant OCD occurs when standard therapies do not provide adequate relief from obsessive-compulsive symptoms. While many people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) improve ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Juergen Eckhardt leads Bayer’s impact investment unit, Leaps by Bayer. If you asked me to name the most transformative medicines ...

Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne illness in the United States, a potentially disabling infection caused by bacteria transmitted through the bite of an infected tick to people and pets.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lyme disease can cause serious harm, but so can bogus tests and treatments. The complexity of diagnosing the tick-borne disease has given rise to an entire industry of unapproved ...