Living with a hernia can be painful and disruptive to daily life. Fortunately, robotic-assisted hernia repair offers a ...

Inguinal hernias affect millions of men, with half of them likely to develop the condition by age 75. These hernias occur ...

Hernias often look like a bulge or swelling under the skin. The type of hernia someone has depends on its cause and location on the body. A hernia occurs when part of an internal organ pushes ...

After the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services established higher reimbursement for the repair of anterior abdominal ...

You probably already know that a hernia is when an organ or tissue pushes through a weak spot in the surrounding muscle or connective tissue. But have you ever heard of ...

Using a novel, medication-based approach, a new Northwestern Medicine study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation successfully reversed existing inguinal hernias in male mice and ...

King Abdullah of Jordan headed to the hospital for surgery just days after his new granddaughter, Amina, was born.

The Biomesh CA.B.S.'Air® Composite range offers a complete selection of prostheses to cover all sized defects for umbilical hernias and low-grade ventral hernias.

Lumbar disc hernias can be alleviated with conservative treatments such as painkillers in around 80% of cases, but for the remaining 20%, surgery was the only way to control the pain. However ...

Although common, the cause of these hernias is unknown, and the only treatment is surgery to repair the weakened area. Even after surgery, these hernias recur in 10 to 15% of men. Using a novel ...

By age 75, a noteworthy 50% of men develop an inguinal (groin) hernia-a bulge that results from soft tissue pushing through a ...