The most common treatment for gallstones is removing your gallbladder. The gallbladder is not an essential organ, which means that you can live normally without one. It is a storage organ for bile.

A surgical team at Keck Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) has pushed the boundaries of clinical care by performing the first-ever robotic, minimally-invasive surgical removal of ...

A person may require gallbladder removal surgery if other treatments do not relieve the inflammation and pain from gallstones and related issues. Cholecystectomy is the medical term for gallbladder ...