The NHS undertakes 100,000 hernia repair operations a year. Here, Gordon Hull, 33, a strategy adviser who lives with his wife in East London tells us about having a hiatus hernia operation ...

A coroner has warned about a "lack of understanding" among medics of strangulated hiatus hernia after the condition went undiagnosed in a man who later died. Tom Glover, who was in his early 70s ...

A hiatus hernia occurs when part of the stomach pushes up through the diaphragm into the chest cavity. It can cause uncomfortable symptoms and is often associated with acid reflux. Symptoms ...