Make sure your hands are warm. Typically, you would use indirect percussion on the abdominal examination. This involves placing your nondominant hand on the skin and tapping the middle finger of this ...

Most people diagnosed with stomach cancer are over the age of 60. However, in the United States, stomach cancers in people under 40 have been steadily rising. The American Cancer Society estimates ...

A new UK Biobank study highlights a sex-specific link between abdominal fat and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).

In South Korea, the relative survival rate for patients diagnosed with stomach cancer has risen to nearly 80 percent, more than double that of the United States. This success story is largely ...

The left lateral decubitus position with the patient's knees pulled up is usually the most comfortable and modesty-preserving positioning for an elderly person. Sometimes previous spinal injury limits ...