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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Antibiotics are now an accepted first-line treatment for most people with appendicitis, according to final results of the Comparing Outcomes of antibiotic Drugs and Appendectomy (CODA) trial, and an ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I went to the hospital and was diagnosed with appendicitis. I’ve been sick for three days. My surgeon said that although the CT scan showed a ruptured appendix, he wants me to take ...

A recent study published in the Frontiers in Pediatrics revealed that among children with suspected appendicitis, a positive ...

Since January, my goal with this column has been to educate the public on paradigm-shifting information related to musculoskeletal pain. This past month, however, I was provided the first-hand ...

Dear Dr. Donohue • This past April, our family made a 300-mile trip to visit my husband's mother. We have three children, ages 9, 7 and 5. About an hour into the trip, the 7-year-old complained that ...