Meanwhile, the 55-year-old man is terminal ill with the cancer to have already affected at least four of his organs, that is ...

A multidisciplinary team of experts, appointed to assist coroner Richard Foster, concluded that "unnecessary surgical intervention" in March 1996, when Mrs Blake underwent an open breast biopsy, ...

An inquest has been told care assistant, Rosemarie Blake, from Erdington had inappropriate and unneeded surgery from Ian ...

Disgraced surgeon Ian Paterson said it was ‘nonsense’ that an open breast biopsy and double mastectomy performed on a patient ...

Unfortunately, most pancreatic cancers aren’t detected until the disease has spread outside the pancreas or even to distant organs, like the liver or lungs ... out a piece of tumor tissue, a liquid ...

Achalasia is primarily caused by the degeneration of the myenteric plexus in the esophageal wall, leading to impaired ...

A local couple’s prayers have been answered. After a desperate search for a living liver donor for their five-month-old ...

Microwave is not a word you think would be used to describe a medical procedure. But it is. Microwave ablation is a laparoscopic procedure for cancer therapy, said Dr. Zachary Senders, a ...

Once clinical suspicion has been established for primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), the "serologic hallmark" of the ...

Medically reviewed by Oliver Eng, MD Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) is an enzyme primarily found in your liver. An enzyme is ...

This can help your provider diagnose conditions that affect your stomach and digestive tract. An invasive test called a gastric biopsy is done if your healthcare provider suspects a specific condition ...

Another barrier has been the "terrifying concept" of having a liver biopsy done to confirm cirrhosis. But a fibroscan machine can measure liver health non-invasively - the one at Gane's clinic in ...