If you recall having surgery as a kid, chances are you had your appendix out. Appendectomies trail only circumcisions on the list of the most common pediatric surgeries in U.S. hospitals. Each year ...

Nobody really knows why we have an appendix, but it can cause us a lot of problems. If it bursts, the complications can be life-threatening. It needs to be treated immediately with surgery, so it's ...

It is too early to change the standard treatment of appendicitis in US adults to initial antibiotic therapy only, rather than surgical removal of the appendix, or appendectomy, authors of a new ...

APPENDICITIS is notoriously difficult to diagnose - particularly if a patient is unable to see a doctor face-to-face - which may help explain why surgery to remove the appendix is the most common ...