It is a large part of the body that lies deep inside, out of sight and perhaps out of mind: your abdominal core. A new and rapidly developing area of medicine focuses on abdominal core health ...

So, while dissecting a mouse for the study, Møllgård noticed something peculiar: a new body part. In the past ... the small intestine stick to the abdomen—think separate pieces of duct ...

The stomach is located in the upper part of the abdomen ... The gallbladder stores this bile then releases it when the body needs it for digestion. Bile is especially important for digesting ...

Pain on the right side of the abdomen—the part of your body between your chest and groin—is relatively common. Right side abdominal pain is often not a sign of anything too serious.

Advanced stomach cancer means that a cancer that began in the stomach has spread to another part of the body. Some people have advanced cancer when they are first diagnosed. Other people have cancer ...

lung and stomach safe. And your skull acts as a tough shell for your brain. Keeping everything safely wrapped up is your skin. Most of us have the same kind of body parts in the same places.

The finding, reported in the journal Nature, helps explain how clusters of neurons in the body play a key role ... so they focused on clusters of abdominal neurons called ganglia.