INDIANAPOLIS (WTHR) - If you've had a hernia, you know they can be painful. This month's Check Up 13 gives you a chance to have a free check with your doctor if you have or think you might have a ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WTHR) - St. Vincent surgeon Dr. Christine Gupta says every day patients reveal a lot of confusion about hernias. "A lot of people think that a hernia is something that needs to be ...

Using a novel, medication-based approach, a new Northwestern Medicine study successfully reversed existing inguinal hernias in male mice and fully restored their normal anatomy without surgery. Even ...

Robotic surgery is the latest advancement in hernia treatment. It is an advanced form of the laparoscopic method, but robotic ...

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 ...

FOR many men, the occasional ache or bulge in the abdomen is brushed off as nothing serious. But beneath the surface, hernias are more common, and potentially more dangerous, than many realise. Silent ...