Hernias affect millions of people every year, yet many patients and even some medical professionals remain unaware of how the ...

Learn the 7 critical signs that indicate umbilical hernia surgery is necessary. Recognize symptoms, timing, and risk factors ...

The diagnosis? A sports hernia. This condition also goes by many other names, including athletic pubalgia and Gilmore's groin—after the late British surgeon Jerry Gilmore who was the first to ...

The researchers have developed a new model to project the performance of different mesh types for patients undergoing ventral hernia repair (VHR). Their findings are published in the Journal of ...

You get a hernia when an organ or fatty tissue squeezes through a weak spot in a surrounding muscle or connective tissue called fascia. Hernias often happen where the belly wall is weaker ...

The conference call came after an internal document prepared for Richardson as he takes the helm of the agency responsible for managing federal disasters indicated the agency was ill-prepared for ...

The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) is trialling a new way of working to reduce the time patients are waiting for routine surgery, which has nearly doubled the number of hernia ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is "not ready" for hurricane season in June, according to an internal review obtained by CBS News— as FEMA contends with staff cuts and a push by ...

In posts published to social media on Tuesday, the company took responsibility for the issue, saying that an “internal error” led to some users’ accounts mistakenly being deactivated.