A hernia occurs when an internal organ or tissue pushes through a weak spot in the surrounding muscle or connective tissue.

Read in part before a combined meeting of the Philadelphia Academy of Surgery and the Boston Surgical Society, March 4, 1940. From the Department of Surgery, Children's Hospital, and the ...

A hiatal hernia occurs when a small portion of the stomach pushes upward through the diaphragm, a sheetlike muscle that separates the lungs from the abdomen. Usually this doesn't cause any symptoms, ...

she received the news at her 20 week scan that her baby had been diagnosed with congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH), a rare condition affecting babies before birth. Rhea said: "I will never ...

A Wigan family has lit up their home for Christmas in memory of their baby daughter. When Becka Rooney had her 20-week anomaly scan while pregnant with her daughter Dakota in 2020, she was told that ...