(This is an excerpt of the Health Rounds newsletter, where we present latest medical studies on Tuesdays and Thursdays.) By ...

Patients who had surgery for an inflamed appendix had a significantly lower risk of developing colorectal cancer than those ...

Few of us give much thought to our appendix unless it starts to 'grumble'. This can potentially become appendicitis, which ...

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Among patients with ulcerative colitis in remission who had been treated for a disease relapse, those who underwent laparoscopic appendicectomy combined with standard medical therapy had lower relapse ...

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 ...