DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I’m in my late 50s and was recently diagnosed with pancreatitis. My symptoms came on suddenly. My wife is concerned my symptoms may develop again, and she wants me to have testing to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Doctor holding magnifying glass up to an anatomical model of the pancreas to show pancreatitis. Pancreatitis refers to ...

October 17, 2007 (New Orleans) -- The risk of death nationally after pancreatectomy for chronic pancreatitis is surprisingly low vs comparable operations for cancer. This may justify more use of this ...

Earlier this week, Travis Barker, the longtime Blink-182 drummer and husband to Kourtney Kardashian, was carried out of his Los Angeles mansion on a stretcher to a local hospital after being diagnosed ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I'm in my late 50s and was recently diagnosed with pancreatitis. My symptoms came on suddenly. My wife is concerned my symptoms may develop again, and she wants me to have testing to ...

What began as a chance meeting between Steven D. Freedman, MD, PhD, and Peter Durie, MD, FRCP, at a 1991 medical conference has led to more than two decades of groundbreaking research and potential ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients who underwent early surgery vs. endoscopy-first approach reported a lower Izbicki pain score. Pain was ...

Chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer are two of the major diseases affecting the pancreas. Both are serious disorders for which current therapy has not been proven to be effective. Physicians ...

THE most controversial aspect of pancreatic surgery concerns the choice of an appropriate operative procedure in the management of chronic relapsing pancreatitis. The evolution of the surgical ...

Many patients with recurrent acute pancreatitis (RAP) and acute pancreatitis (AP) have high lifetime cumulative drinking and heavy daily alcohol use, suggesting disease progression toward chronic ...

Dr. Vikas Dudeja, Director of the Division of Surgical Oncology at UAB, has been awarded a $9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). This prestigious funding, granted through the ...