Patients with early-stage gastric cancer may consider stomach-preserving surgery, as it led to better quality-of-life and nutritional outcomes in a study. Stomach-preserving surgery may improve ...

Q: I feel like I've tried every diet, and no matter what, I just can't seem to lose weight. A friend who had a surgery that removed part of her stomach was finally able to lose 65 pounds. I wonder if ...

HOUSTON — A Houston woman was shocked when she went into surgery for a tummy tuck to remove her "baby pooch" and came out without a belly button. "I went in with the belly button and I'd like to know ...

In obese people with diabetes, stomach surgery to control hunger may do more than induce weight loss. A study now finds it can send their diabetes into remission. Australian researchers enlisted 60 ...

At 47, Todd Leach learned he carries a genetic mutation that significantly raised his risk for a rare stomach cancer. He had ...

Crohn's disease in a type of inflammatory bowel disease. It can involve any area of the digestive tract, from the mouth to the anus, but most commonly affects the last area of the small intestine, ...

HOUSTON -- A Houston woman was forced to ask her doctor an unimaginable question -- where's my belly button? "I went in with the belly button and I'd like to know what you did with it? What happened ...

Until Pope Pius XII fell ill in 1954, few people had ever heard of hiatal hernia and fewer knew what it was, although surprisingly many must have suffered from it. Nowadays the diagnosis is being made ...

The hairball "formed a cast of the entire stomach." A girl in the U.K., living with Rapunzel syndrome, had stomach surgery to remove a 19-inch long hairball. The mental health condition causes a ...

HOUSTON -- A woman was forced to ask her doctor an unimaginable question: where's my belly button? "I went in with the belly button and I'd like to know what you did with it? What happened to it? Did ...