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 ...

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 ...

I'm 44, had a second child a year ago, and I've lost all my baby weight. At 5 feet, 1 inch tall, I weigh about 133 pounds but still have a big stomach. I've dieted, work out hard with cardio, sculpt ...

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 ...

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the expression of eNOS and iNOS mRNA and protein in adipose tissue from subcutaneous (s.c.) and omental adipose tissue of obese subjects. DESIGN: Subcutaneous and omental ...