Doctors can test for gallbladder issues using a combination of physical exams, blood tests, and imaging studies. Several issues can affect the gallbladder, including gallstones, inflammation, or ...

Early-stage research has found 10 metabolites associated with bile duct cancer which might one day help create a urine test to identify the cancer. The work is the result of a collaboration between ...

Common symptoms are changes in stool appearance and texture. Normally, stool is brown, but people with bile duct cancer may have pale or clay-colored stools that are oily and float in water. Also ...

When there’s a hole in any part of the bile duct, it can leak bile. This can occur during some procedures or due to injury. A bile duct is a tube-like structure that connects through your liver, ...

To test the idea, they treated mice with bladder cancer using these compounds -- and observed a potent anti-tumor response. Further analysis revealed that the modified bile acids specifically boosted ...