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Most of the time, people don’t notice their salivary glands. They are located in the mouth and throat, and they produce saliva. We start to notice these glands if a stone or tumor develops and blocks ...

Imagine feeling one or more of these symptoms in your pelvic area up to 95 percent of the time: Burning Pinching Stabbing That’s the reality for women with chronic pelvic pain, which can be co...

Hernias are common, and you likely know someone who has had one at some point in their life. So, perhaps it’s no surprise that the most common esophageal condition I treat is paraesophageal hernia, wh...

Jessica E. Galarraga, MD, MPH, has been awarded an Early Career Research Development Grant from the Emergency Medicine Foundation (EMF) to continue her research evaluating the health care delivery eff...

The number of first-time total knee replacements, also known as arthroplasties, is expected to grow by 673 percent, reaching 3.48 million procedures by 2030, according to a study published by the Jour...

Heart valve disease, a malfunction of one or more of the valves that allow blood to flow through the heart, affects roughly 2.5 percent of the U.S. population. More than 6 million people live in the W...