Doctors operating on what they thought was a dad-of-three’s hernia instead found the bulge in fact contained female genitalia. The 67-year-old went into hospital in Kosovo complaining of swelling in ...

If you play a sport that requires sudden twists, sharp turns, or bursts of speed, a sports hernia is an injury you should have on your radar. About five percent of adult athletes develop one each year ...

Nearly 90% of the most common type of hernia repair surgery was performed in men over the course of the five-year study Women were more likely to get two lesser known types of hernia surgery TUESDAY, ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I’m an 83-year-old healthy woman. In 2019, I became aware of a little bulge in my groin and suspected an inguinal hernia. It was confirmed by my family doctor. Given its small size and ...

John Syng Dorsey [1] once stated: The large proportion of mankind who are afflicted with this complaint; -- the great variety of forms in which it appears; -- the fatality which results from its ...

Kindly let me know what causes hernia in men and what are the remediesGoke (by SMS)Hernias in men are caused by a combination of muscle weakness and excessive pressure on the abdominal wall, with ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Overweight and obese men may be less likely than their thinner counterparts to develop a hernia in the groin, a long-term study suggests. Researchers found that among ...

Currently, the only available treatment is surgery to repair the weakened area Mice were treated with an anti-estrogen drug currently approved to treat breast cancer ‘Blockbuster’ findings also ...

Men with hernias but little or no pain can safely go without surgery unless things really start to hurt, a study found. “Not every hernia needs to be fixed,” said Dr. Olga Jonasson of the University ...