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 ...

Having my omentum removed after an ovarian cancer diagnosis impacted my quality of life. In 2016, 15 months after my cancer diagnosis, and nine months after completing chemo, I went on my first work ...

The omentum is a curtain of fatty tissue that hangs down from our stomach and liver and wraps around the intestines. A push to renew research into an understudied gut organ is gaining momentum. The ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Call it what you like: Beer belly, protruding gut, spare tire orother creative names. What you’re referring to is the visibleconsequence of the omentum. Often described as a “fatty apron,” the omentum ...

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 ...