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 ...

CHICAGO — When emergency tests showed the telltale right-sided pain in Heather VanDusen's abdomen was appendicitis, she figured she'd be quickly wheeled into surgery. But doctors offered her the ...

CHICAGO — When emergency tests showed the telltale right-sided pain in Heather VanDusen’s abdomen was appendicitis, she figured she’d be quickly wheeled into surgery. But doctors offered her the ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Nonoperative management (NOM) was associated with a significantly higher risk of treatment failure within one year compared with appendectomy (RR, 4.97). Treatment success at 12 months was lower in ...

It’s one of the most common medical emergencies – an inflamed or ruptured appendix. It usually ends with a trip to the operating room and the removal of the organ. But some patients can do just fine ...