SOME things in life are just sent to trouble us... the human appendix being one of them! This pesky piece of bowel is notorious for becoming inflamed, infected and generally making a nuisance of ...

Medical experts have described appendicitis as one of the leading causes of surgical emergency admission in most hospitals, warning that delayed appendicectomy, may lead to ruptured appendicitis ...

Having a horrible stomach ache or mysterious abdominal pain is never fun. And it’s even less fun when you’re sitting there curled up in a ball mildly panicking and Googling your symptoms, unsure if it ...

20:23, Mon, May 15, 2017 Updated: 20:43, Mon, May 15, 2017 The Celebrity Big Brother host took to Instagram tonight to reveal she’d undergone emergency surgery due to a “horrible infection”. Posing ...

DEAR DOCTOR K: Why do doctors remove the appendix when someone has appendicitis? Don’t we need this organ? DEAR READER: Appendicitis is an inflammation of the appendix. This small, fingerlike tube ...

WARRENVILLE, Ill., Oct. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Each year, appendicitis sends 77,000 children in the U.S. to the hospital. About one-third of them experience a ruptured appendix, a life-threatening ...

Pity the poor appendix, a 2- to 4-inch-long wormlike pouch dangling from the head of the cecum, where the large and small intestines meet. For most of its medical history — anatomists have known about ...