(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 ...

Patients who underwent an appendectomy for acute appendicitis had a significantly lower subsequent risk of colorectal cancer ...

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

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 ...

What the appendix protects deep in the gut】In the lower right of the abdomen hangs a thin, bag-like organ. It is commonly ...

Generally treated as a medical emergency, appendicitis can leave a person doubled over in agony. The most common symptom is abdominal pain, explains Dr. Martin Zielinski, a surgeon trained in critical ...

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 ...