Wearable devices like Fitbits can help health care providers spot postsurgical complications in kids, a new analysis in Science Advances finds. About 1 in 7 children will have postoperative ...

Hackensack Meridian Children's Health pediatric general surgeon Margaret M. McGuire, M.D, FACS,FAAP., was the first surgeon at K. Hovnanian Children's Hospital at Jersey Shore University Medical ...

The minimally invasive device developer Lumendi reported that its system was used to perform its first fully incisionless appendectomy—with the patient being able to return to work the next morning. A ...

Appendicitis. Illustration of a human appendix, showing it red and inflamed in appendicitis. The appendix is a narrow finger-shaped tube that branches off the first part of the large intestine (caecum ...

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 ...

Appendectomy may lead to harmful changes in the gut microbiome that contribute to colorectal cancer (CRC), a new report from China suggests. In one part of a three-part analysis, researchers observed ...

Norah O’Donnell, CBS This Morning co-anchor, had an emergency appendectomy while on vacation for spring break. O’Donnell was able to undergo a successful surgery before her appendix ruptured and is ...

Portland Timbers veteran midfielder Diego Chará underwent a successful appendectomy procedure Thursday afternoon, the team announced, with an expected recovery time of one to three weeks. Chará was ...