To get to the bottom of why you’re experiencing pain in your lower left abdomen, we tapped our experts to explain all the common, and not so common, causes behind your discomfort. Conditions like ...

Nagging abdominal pain and a new bout of constipation? You might be dealing with diverticulitis, a condition that occurs when small pouches form in the colon and become inflamed or infected.

Expert insights reveal surprising causes of your mysterious discomfort Photo credit: Shutterstock.com / Prostock-studio Understanding abdominal distress. That nagging pain in your ...

I am 89 and in good health. For six months, my systolic blood pressure was 113 mm Hg. Then, 10 days ago, it dropped to 88 mm Hg ...

is a rare cause of focal abdominal pain in otherwise healthy patients with mild or absent secondary signs of abdominal pathology. It can mimick diverticulitis or appendicitis on clinical exam.

Introduction: Recently, a three-step endoscopic scale, known as the Diverticular Inflammation and Complication Assessment (DICA), was introduced to predict the course of diverticular disease (DD), ...