When waste material passes through the colon, it can sometimes clog the appendix. This blockage allows bacteria to multiply ...

At first glance, the results of a recent meta-analysis published in JAMA Pediatrics would indicate immediately operating on a child is the most effective treatment for uncomplicated acute appendicitis ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- The most common emergency surgical procedure in the U.S. is an appendectomy - removal of the appendix. But now there's mounting evidence that some patients can avoid or delay ...

Filmmaker Kiran Rao recently underwent appendix surgery and is recovering well. Her experience has renewed focus on ...

Pregnant women who underwent immediate surgery to treat a ruptured or abscessed appendix had lower risk of infectious complications compared with those whose complicated appendicitis was managed ...

Kiran Rao was hospitalised for appendix surgery and shared a funny ‘Kim Kardashian moment’ after doctors removed a 12 mm ...

Filmmaker Kiran Rao shares appendix surgery update 12mm appendix out via 105mm catheter Read ahead to know more about her ...

Kiran Rao, a filmmaker, has provided an update following her recent appendix operation, thanking medical personnel and ...

Bilophila wadsworthia bacteria, computer illustration. Anaerobic bile resistant bacterium found in lower parts of the human gastrointestinal tract, and implicated in a number of abdominal infections, ...

Appendicitis is a condition in which the appendix, a finger-shaped pouch that opens into the large intestine, becomes swollen and filled with pus. Appendicitis can be caused by a bacterial infection ...

Standing next to her daughter Paige’s tiny body Siobhan Smith desperately whispered in her little girl’s ear, begging her to keep clinging on to life. Doctors frantically performed CPR in front of the ...

In complicated appendicitis cases, routine post-operative antibiotics did not help reduce infections in a recent study conducted at Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute and Olive View-UCLA ...