Johnson & Johnson today announced that the company has submitted the OTTAVA™ Robotic Surgical System to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in an application for De Novo classification.

Experts detail the benefits of swimming, from strengthening your muscles to reducing inflammation and boosting your mental health—and how to get started. Swimming offers a low-impact exercise with ...

Mark Gurarie is a writer covering health topics, technology, music, books, and culture. He also teaches health science and research writing at George Washington University's School of Medical and ...

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

The popularity of the gym culture, HIIT work, and home-based fitness has opened up exercise to more people, but, paradoxically, to more injuries as well. The surgeons are seeing an uptick in ...

A hiatal hernia is a common anatomical abnormality in which part of the stomach protrudes or herniates through the diaphragm and up into the esophagus or chest. If the stomach gets stuck in the defect ...

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 ...

Background and Aim: Barrett's esophagus has been associated with the presence of hiatal hernia; however, to date no meta-analysis of the relationship has been performed. We aimed to conduct a ...

Department of Surgical Sciences, Division of General Surgery, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, MI, United States Introduction: Use of mesh to reinforce ...

A study by Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine in Japan suggests the importance of tailored exercise programs for school-age children born with congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH), a ...

Hernias can be an unnerving manifestation of the body’s wear and tear, creating a sudden bulge in the groin or abdomen when part of an internal organ or tissue—such as the intestine—pushes through the ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 74-year-old woman who is active and healthy. I recently had an endoscopy, and the findings were a hiatal hernia of about 5 centimeters with some inflammation. I have been having ...