An inguinal hernia occurs when tissue pushes through a weak spot in the abdominal wall near where your abdomen meets your thigh. It’s less common in women because this area is smaller in females.

In a study conducted in Uganda and published in JAMA Surgery, researchers from Karolinska Institutet evaluated a new surgical method for treating groin hernias in women. The method could become an ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Putting off hernia surgery can increase your risk for ...

Hernias are common and most aren’t serious, but complications can occur. A hernia is the abnormal protrusion of an organ or ...

St. Joseph’s/Candler is providing a valuable service, offering free hernia screenings to the community at two locations on ...

Samantha Jackson has the biggest hernia doctors have ever seen but cannot get operated on to fix it as she may lose her life. The 56-year-old mother of one from the UK first developed the condition, ...

A hiatal hernia is an enlarged opening in your diaphragm, the dome-shaped muscle that contracts when you breathe. Organs in your belly push through this opening and into your chest. There are two main ...

Kolkata doctors have successfully treated a large and complex incisional hernia in a 45-year-old woman from Agartala in ...