Patients with early-stage gastric cancer may consider stomach-preserving surgery, as it led to better quality-of-life and nutritional outcomes in a study. Stomach-preserving surgery may improve ...

HOUSTON -- A Houston woman was forced to ask her doctor an unimaginable question -- where's my belly button? "I went in with the belly button and I'd like to know what you did with it? What happened ...

This rare complication of weight loss surgery can lead to symptoms like nausea, vomiting, pain, and reflux, or have no symptoms at all. A twisted stomach, or gastric twist, can sometimes happen after ...

Gastric bypass surgery is used to help people lose weight when eating and exercise aren’t enough. A new less invasive option, gastric banding, is helping people once scared off by the original Lap ...

Advocate columnist Holly Clegg's family reports she is doing well after surgery Wednesday to remove her stomach as part of her treatment for stomach cancer. Clegg, author of some of the nation’s ...

"I'm so grateful," Kori Myers says. "My dad saved all of our lives." Wendy Grossman Kantor is an award-winning journalist who has contributed to PEOPLE for over 20 years. She reports on topics of ...

Pregnancy, obesity, and significant weight loss can cause apron belly. Keeping the skinfold clean and dry helps prevent infections. Surgery like a tummy tuck can remove excess skin and fat. "Apron ...

If you naturally associate stomach cancer with brutally painful stomachaches, you're not the only one. And yet, stomachaches are not typically a sign of this rare form of cancer at any point in its ...

HOUSTON -- A Houston woman was forced to ask her doctor an unimaginable question -- where's my belly button? "I went in with the belly button and I'd like to know what you did with it? What happened ...