Cancer research is more than just the study of diagnostics and novel therapies. Researchers also investigate the causes of cancer, be they small or, in this case, vestigial. The appendix has long been ...

It's "no longer about a right vs wrong management pathway," expert says ...

February 22, 2011 — For children with a perforated appendix, early appendectomy appears to reduce the time away from normal activities and has fewer adverse events vs another common option, the ...

Appendectomy may be a useful addition to medical therapy for preventing relapse of ulcerative colitis among patients in remission. At 1 year, 36% of patients in the appendectomy group had a relapse ...

Appendicitis. Illustration of a human appendix, showing it red and inflamed in appendicitis. The appendix is a narrow finger-shaped tube that branches off the first part of the large intestine (caecum ...

A randomized controlled trial has brought into question the established medical doctrine that appendicitis should be treated by surgical removal, finding that a level of success can alternatively be ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “However, the wide range of treatment failure rates (7% to 39%) have led to confusion about overall ...

Surgery day after perforation gets kids on their feet faster, researchers say. Feb. 21, 2010— -- Surgery within a day for children with a perforated appendix reduced the time before they returned ...

A 20-year-old got over the pain of his appendectomy - then he got his bill. Jan. 1, 2014— -- When a 20-year-old man got over the pain of having his burst appendix removed in October, he got hit ...