A 72-year-old woman with a history of narcotic bowel syndrome and multiple prior abdominal surgeries presents to the emergency department (ED) for severe right lower abdominal and rectal pain that has ...

It's easy to feel lost in the vast wilderness that is stomach-or more accurately, abdominal-pain. But doctors have learned to read our midsection like a map. And where our pain radiates from often ...

Tummy aches and pains, whether sharp and severe or dull and cramp-like, can really throw off your day, making it hard to carry on as normal. But, it can be difficult to pinpoint the exact reason for ...

For more than two years, Camilla Row kept telling her doctors about heartburn-like pain that wouldn’t go away. She tried every lifestyle change they recommended — cutting out coffee, avoiding spicy ...

At 18, Maya Ortiz developed sharp stomach pain that flared after meals. She chalked it up to her usual “sensitive stomach.” But over the following months, the ache grew to agony. “I’d drink milk and ...

The hairy mass inside the 24-year-old woman was about 16 inches long and caused her intense stomach pain. Reading time 2 minutes Surgeons in Ecuador were able to save a 24-year-old woman from an ...