Conditions

The gallbladder is a small pouch under the liver that stores bile and releases it into the bowel when fatty food arrives.

The gallbladder is a small pouch tucked under the liver where bile is stored between meals.

A ganglion cyst is a soft, mobile little ball that turns up under the skin, most often on the wrist, on a finger or on the top of the foot.

Gangrene is the death of a part of the body inside a living organism. Tissue dies when blood, and with it oxygen, stops reaching it: with nothing to live on…

The inside of the stomach is lined with a mucous membrane that spends all day sitting in an acid strong enough to dissolve a piece of meat.

A healthy stomach does not merely store food: it grinds it down and pushes it onward into the duodenum in measured portions.

Gender dysphoria is the name not for a gender identity that fails to match the body, but for the distress that mismatch causes. The distinction matters.

Of all the sexually transmitted infections, this is the one that frightens people most, and almost always more than it deserves.

These are ordinary warts that have grown in the one place nobody wants to find them. They are caused by human papillomavirus, the same HPV that gets talked…

This is a diagnosis that almost always arrives out of the blue: a woman feels perfectly well, has no complaints at all, and then a test result tells her she…