Laura Sweet was an active, upbeat 42-year-old saleswoman living in Santa Monica, Calif., when the agony first started — debilitating, flaring pains in her pelvis that lasted for days and recurred ...

Chronic pelvic pain is a common health issue for women, but a hernia is often overlooked as a potential cause. About 15 to 20% of U.S. women, ages 18 to 50, experience chronic pelvic pain in their ...

Laura Sweet was an active, upbeat 42-year-old saleswoman living in Santa Monica, Calif., when the agony first started — debilitating, flaring pains in her pelvis that lasted for days and recurred ...

In January 2010 — six months into researching how to be an advocate for your own health — Ehrenclou began having debilitating pelvic pain. Over the next 16 months, the now 51-year-old Los Angeles ...

Laura Sweet was an active, upbeat 42-year-old saleswoman living in Santa Monica, Calif., when the agony first started — debilitating, flaring pains in her pelvis that lasted for days and recurred ...

I called him Henry. Henry was much like a houseguest who had overstayed his welcome. While he was no trouble to begin with-and in fact, I barely noticed him at all-after 12 to 18 months, our ...

Author Martine Ehrenclou writes about how patients can take charge of their healthcare, but recently Martine had to follow her own advice when she started experiencing severe abdominal pain. "The pain ...

In January 2010 – six months into researching how to be an advocate for your own health – Ehrenclou began having debilitating pelvic pain. Over the next 16 months, the now-51-year-old Los Angeles ...

Nearly 90% of the most common type of hernia repair surgery was performed in men over the course of the five-year study Women were more likely to get two lesser known types of hernia surgery TUESDAY, ...

Postoperative urinary retention (POUR) was common following inguinal hernia surgery in an international cohort study. Among 4,151 adults across 32 countries, incidence of needing bladder decompression ...