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 ...

Bile is a liquid produced by the liver that helps your body digest fats from the food you eat. It is stored in the gallbladder and empties into your intestines during digestion. You may have heard ...

Doctors typically use different methods based on symptoms and medical history to test for gallbladder issues. These include physical exams, blood tests, ultrasound, and other imaging tests. In ...

Never-before-seen 3D reconstructions of human liver tissue have been created at a cellular level. The details obtained by a team of UW Medicine and University of Washington engineers and physicians ...

In an age of normalized “detoxes” and “cleanses,” supplements marketed to cleanse your liver have garnered popularity in recent years. Proponents of liver cleanses claim it can detoxify your body and ...