According to the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), appendicitis is diagnosed in 8.7% of men and 6.7% of women annually in the United States. That totals approximately 250,000 cases ...

A new study in The Lancet led by Dr. Corinne Vons of the Assistance Publique-Hopitaux de Paris and Université Paris XI finds that assessing the need for surgery in appendicitis patients using ...

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For more than 100 years, the standard treatment for appendicitis has been surgery. Now a large Finnish study provides the best evidence to date that most patients can be treated with antibiotics alone ...

All of us of had tummy troubles at some point in our lives. Stomach viruses, constipation, diarrhea are considered familiar issues some people deal with daily. However, most likely very few of us ever ...

Appendicitis is no longer the killer it was a dozen years ago. Since sulfa drugs began to be used to control the complication of peritonitis, the annual toll of U.S. lives lost to appendicitis has ...

Norah O’Donnell is on the mend after having an emergency appendectomy when she developed appendicitis on vacation. The CBS This Morning co-anchor revealed that she was having the procedure done on ...

Claire Hadden's appendix shifted during pregnancy. Despite an appendicitis during her seventh month of pregnancy, Claire Hadden gave birth to baby William right on time. Courtesy Claire Hadden June 16 ...