Gallbladder

      TRUCKEE - State wildlife officials in California are investigating whether a bear hit by a car near Lake Tahoe may have had its organs removed for sale on the black market.       The state patrol notified transportation officials about a bear...

After less than 30 minutes of surgery, Dr. Gina Massoglia removed Caren Eckwerth's gallbladder by squeezing it out through a tiny incision in her belly button. A colleague followed up with three small stitches in the navel, covering the wound with a Band-...

RAMALLAH, West Bank — With his wife and doctors by his side, ailing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was flown out of the West Bank early today for medical treatment abroad, heralding the likely end of his longtime grip on power. A Jordanian air...

A woman lies anesthetized on the operating table. Bright primary colors dominate the room: the brilliant yellow of iodine-scrubbed skin, the red of blood, the green of surgical scrubs worn by all. Medical students flank a far wall, the Greek chorus of the...

An epidemic of obesity and the dramatic weight-loss stories of celebrities are feeding a national frenzy for stomach-shrinking surgery. This year, an estimated 120,000 extremely overweight Americans, mostly women, will have their stomachs cut to egg-size...

GUANGZHOU, China - Deng Deliu couldn't believe it when the government came for his pheasants. It had been a lazy morning at the animal markets, with only a few shoppers perusing the snakes, turtles, rabbits, cats, dogs, badgers, ducks, geese, frogs,...