The Project Tycho database aims are to advance the availability and use of public health data for science and policy. The site provides open access to newly digitized U.S. weekly surveillance data for contagious diseases from 1888 to the present for use in research, education, and policy making.
1 Surgery to remove the gallbladder (cholecystectomy). 2  Your doctor may recommend surgery to remove your gallbladder, since gallstones frequently recur. 3  Once your gallbladder is removed, bile flows directly from your liver into your small intestine, rather than being stored in your gallbladder. Your doctor may recommend surgery to remove your gallbladder, since gallstones frequently recur. 2  Once your gallbladder is removed, bile flows directly from your liver into your small intestine, rather than being stored in your gallbladder.
Surgery using a laparoscope is the most common way to remove the gallbladder. A laparoscope is a thin, lighted tube that lets the doctor see inside your belly. Gallbladder removal surgery is done while you are under general anesthesia so you will be asleep and pain-free. To perform the surgery: The operation is done the following way: 1  The surgeon makes 3 to 4 small cuts in your belly.  The laparoscope is inserted through one of the cuts.