St. Thomas Aquinas sophomore Nicholas Campanelli and his coach collided during what seemed like a routine practice in early ...

When St. Thomas Aquinas’ Nicholas Campanelli had surgery to remove his gallbladder a month ago, his head coach didn’t know ...

The gallbladder is a small, sac-like organ located beneath the liver. Its role is to store bile produced by the liver and release it into the small intestine to aid in digesting fatty and oily foods.

Santiago Horgan, MD, chief of minimally invasive surgery at UC San Diego Health System, was the first surgeon in the U.S. to remove a gallbladder through a patient’s belly button, according to a UCSD ...

Abdominal pain associated with gallstones does not always subside after the gallbladder is removed (cholecystectomy). Even five years after surgery, one-third of patients still experience persisting ...