It's "no longer about a right vs wrong management pathway," expert says ...

Antibiotic treatment is a viable option for uncomplicated appendicitis, yielding favourable outcomes and fewer complications than appendectomy, new research shows.

Appendicitis is widely known to be associated with colon cancer. Consider a 2020 meta-analysis finding that appendicitis increases the risk of colon cancer 10 fold. It is now standard practice for ...

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 ...

April 16 (Reuters) - (To receive the full newsletter in your inbox for free sign up here) Patients with the chronic inflammatory bowel disease ulcerative colitis might reduce their risk of a relapse ...