Your gallbladder is a small organ tucked beneath your liver in the upper right side of your abdomen. Its main job? Storing bile–a digestive fluid your liver produces to help break down fats. When you ...

A gallbladder is one of our organs that sometimes we can’t live with anymore, but can live without, especially if it causes medical grief. Then, it is removed. So why do we even have one (even two on ...

The gallbladder is a small organ located beneath the liver, whose main function is to store bile, a digestive fluid essential for the digestion of fats. A diet rich in nutritious foods can promote its ...

Scientists from the University of Copenhagen and elsewhere found that drinking coffee may help reduce the risk of gallstone ...

Calculous cholecystitis is a gallbladder inflammation that occurs due to the presence of gallstones (cholelithiasis). These gallstones can block the cystic duct, the channel through which bile flows ...

The most common cause of cholecystitis is gallstones. Less common causes include severe illness or infection, tumors, and injury or trauma. Cholecystitis is the medical term for gallbladder ...

Cholelithiasis is the formation of gallstones due to bile imbalance, cholesterol supersaturation, or gallbladder hypomotility. It may cause biliary colic, nausea, and intolerance to fatty foods.

Add these gallbladder-friendly foods to smoothies, salads, soups, bowls and more. Your gallbladder is a small organ tucked beneath your liver in the upper right side of your abdomen. Its main job?