Look down. See any belly fat? The answer should be yes, for everyone — because that fat pad isn’t just sitting there quietly. Some of it is actually part of an organ called the omentum. And the ...

Troy Randall, an immunologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, is the omentum guy. He thinks the “apron of fat” that hugs your abdomen doesn’t get enough attention — while we’re all ...

The quirkiest organ in the human body may be a large sheet of fat that stretches over the intestines, liver, and stomach like an elastic apron. Sometimes called the "policeman of the abdomen," the ...

In their recent work to be published on March 7, 2009 in the World Journal of Gastroenterology, Dr. Singh and his colleagues from the Cook County Hospital in Chicago (USA) first activated the omentum ...

The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Feb., 1924), pp. 159-185 (27 pages) The omentum of the rabbit takes part in the development of antibodies in response to intraperitoneal injection ...

In a new study, it was observed that in rats with kidney disease, functioning of the kidney improved when the organ was fused with the omentum, a fatty fold of tissue that lies close to the kidney and ...

In their recent publication in Cell Reports, a team of scientists, led by Xiling Shen, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer at the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation (TIBI), has demonstrated the ...

Q: I read that putting belly fat on the brain can help reverse Alzheimer's. It doesn't make any sense to me. Isn't fat (especially belly fat) bad for the brain? Please explain. — Nancy S., ...

Your abdominal muscles keep your organs and intestines in place. The protrusion of abdominal organs through a weak spot in the abdominal wall is called a hernia. Ventral hernias involve the front part ...

Almost one-third of patients undergoing omentectomy for peritoneal metastases had occult omental metastases, supporting routine omentectomy prior to cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic ...

Hernias happen when there's an abnormal bulging of an organ or part of an organ through a weakness or gap in its containing wall. A spigelian hernia is a rare kind that's often difficult to diagnose.