Abdominal pain is not always simple indigestion. It can signal serious issues like appendicitis or kidney stones. Recognizing ...

Abdominal point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is a vital, rapid, and noninvasive diagnostic tool used by hospitalists to detect ...

If you've had stomach pain recently, you might have wondered how to check if you have appendicitis at home. Appendicitis is the most common cause of abdominal pain that results in surgery in the ...

In a recent study published in the Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine, researchers described two cases of acute pain in the abdomen of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Study: ...

Your body sends urgent signals through pain. Intense, sudden pain, or pain with other alarming signs, demands attention.

Crohn’s disease, a long-term inflammatory bowel disease that currently cannot be cured, causes repeated flare-ups of symptoms ...

AMONG the various manifestations of hemochromatosis are sometimes found certain symptomatic and objective features that simulate acute abdominal conditions. Writers in the medical literature in the ...

Case #1: A 5-year-old boy with abdominal pain was brought to the ED by his parents. The pain had been present for 12 hours, and the child had vomited once. There was no fever or diarrhea. Tenderness ...

Acute abdominal pain can be categorized in multiple methods. The most common method is by dividing the causes into two main categories, such as surgical versus nonsurgical pain, and intra-abdominal ...

In this Journal feature, information about a real patient is presented in stages (boldface type) to an expert clinician, who responds to the information by sharing relevant background and reasoning ...

JoJo Siwa says she was rushed to the hospital with “excruciating” pain just hours before a major public appearance.

Pain is an uncomfortable feeling that tells you something is wrong. People feel pain from time to time, but chronic pain is different. It’s a type of pain that is ongoing and typically lasts longer ...