Appendicitis afflicts roughly one in 10 people during their lifetime and accounts for more emergency abdominal surgeries than any other ailment. Yet, as emergency room doctors know too well, ...

The condition may be life-threatening without emergency surgery, but can be difficult to diagnose, especially in younger people. Now a team at the Children’s Hospital Boston has pinpointed a protein ...

When your child is in pain, the stress might be too much to stomach. It might be that they ate something that doesn’t agree with them — or it could be something more serious like appendicitis. Since ...

BANGALORE, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Biopharmaceutical company AspenBio Pharma Inc said it chose a faster clearance path for its blood test for appendicitis, driving its shares up almost 21 percent. The ...