Appendectomy may lead to harmful changes in the gut microbiome that contribute to colorectal cancer (CRC), a new report from China suggests. In one part of a three-part analysis, researchers observed a 73% increase in CRC risk among appendectomy cases ...

Joel Embiid has made an incredible comeback from an appendectomy to lift the Philadelphia 76ers into the Eastern Conference semifinals against the New York Knicks. But maybe he's not fully healed from the surgery, as we saw in Game 1 -- in the second ...

An appendectomy, or appendix removal, is the primary treatment for an appendix that is inflamed or has burst. An inflamed appendix can lead to life threatening complications, so an appendectomy is often an emergency surgery. An appendectomy is a surgery to ...

Appendectomy may be a useful addition to medical therapy for preventing relapse of ulcerative colitis among patients in remission. At 1 year, 36% of patients in the appendectomy group had a relapse versus 56% of those who received medical therapy alone.

Bianca Andreescu will delay the start of her 2025 season after undergoing an appendectomy. The 2019 U.S. Open champion said Thursday in an Instagram Story post that she had planned to compete in the Merida Open later this month until this complication arose.

Norah O’Donnell, CBS This Morning co-anchor, had an emergency appendectomy while on vacation for spring break. O’Donnell was able to undergo a successful surgery before her appendix ruptured and is currently on the mend. Doctors explain how to spot the ...

Antibiotic management of acute uncomplicated appendicitis among children was inferior to appendectomy, a randomized non-inferiority trial showed. For nearly 850 children with available primary outcome data, treatment failure at 12 months occurred in 34% of ...