What started as a surgery to remove a woman's appendix now has a woman suing Cedar Hill hospital alleging ...

A matched study of more than 30,000 appendicitis patients found that those who underwent an appendectomy had a 58 percent ...

In posts on Twitter, Flash Morgan Webster announced that he has had successful surgery in order to get his appendix removed. He noted that he only had one meal since Wednesday and was going to be ...

Patients who had surgery for an inflamed appendix had a significantly lower risk of developing colorectal cancer than those treated with antibiotics, according to an analysis of more than 30,000 cases ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s the one organ we’ve been told is basically useless, and now it might actually be harboring a stealthy health risk. So ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You may have heard that astronauts have their appendix removed before leaving Earth. After all, people say you can live without ...

You may have heard that astronauts have their appendix removed before leaving Earth. After all, people say you can live without this organ because it serves no purpose, but how much truth is there in ...