Bloating. Belching. Gassy. Gastrointestinal (GI) discomfort. These are common enough symptoms that can potentially have different causes, including a poorly functioning gallbladder. Last month, we learned that bile is made by the liver, then stored in and released by...

Cholecystectomies are one of the most common surgeries performed in the United States with a reported 600,000 done each year. What’s a cholecystectomy? It’s surgical removal of the gallbladder. Surgeries doubled in the 90s when laparoscopic cholecystectomy was...

The coelacanth fish fossil was considered veritable proof of the evolutionary theory. It appeared as the missing link between fish and tetrapods with its part-fin-part-foot flipper. The coelacanth was believed by some to have been extinct for 65 million years until...