Jenny Evans became interested in wellness after a traumatic appendicitis experience in her 20s. She's now a facialist and owns a skincare company, BeautyGrass, that sells CBD-infused products. Evans' ...

Filmmaker Kiran Rao recently underwent appendix surgery and is recovering well. Her experience has renewed focus on ...

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 ...

In January, Amanda Buschelman began feeling jolts of pain on the right side of her abdomen. It felt so intense that the mom of three realized she needed to visit her family doctor. Immediately he ...

My 5-year-old was complaining of stomach pain, and I was worried and had questions. I asked her how bad the pain was and where it hurt and whether it was getting worse. Being a kindergartner, she ...

Bindi Irwin has reportedly been rushed to hospital in the United States to undergo emergency surgery for a ruptured appendix. According to her brother Robert Irwin, "she's going to be OK," however, ...

Stump appendicitis is a rare complication that occurs when the residual appendix becomes inflamed after an appendectomy. It is estimated to occur in between 0.002% and 0.15% of cases, although it may ...

A link between rheumatoid arthritis and appendicitis has been investigated before, but newer research has not confirmed these findings. Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease where the immune ...

Appendicitis is not an inherited condition, but genetics may play a role. However, the cause of appendicitis is often unclear. Appendicitis refers to inflammation of the appendix. An infection may ...

We conducted a pragmatic, nonblinded, noninferiority, randomized trial comparing antibiotic therapy (10-day course) with appendectomy in patients with appendicitis at 25 U.S. centers. The primary ...