Given Choice, Parents Pick Cheaper Medical Procedure for Children
A study offers a compelling case for price transparency in helping reel in the nation’s health costs....
View ArticleAntibiotics Resurface as Alternative to Removing Appendix
Five small studies indicate antibiotics can cure some patients with appendicitis; about 70 percent of patients who took pills did not need surgery....
View ArticleRussian doctor stranded in the Antarctic used a mirror, lamp and barely any...
Leonid Rogozov was the only doctor on an expedition to the Antarctic, and the next boat back to Russia would not arrive for a year. He was forced to remove his own appendix on 30th April 1961....
View ArticleHow to lose an appendix in 10 easy steps
I always suspected that the appendix was up to no good. As far as I had learned in anatomy, it was a little bag full of danger and bacteria that you carried around in your gut at all times. The 2011...
View ArticleTrevor Noah, ‘Daily Show’ Host, Has Emergency Appendectomy
Daily Show host Trevor Noah reportedly underwent an emergency appendectomy on Wednesday morning. Hollywood Life reports that the 31-year-old comedian is still in the hospital, but is expected to make a...
View ArticleChoosing Antibiotics Over Surgery for Appendicitis
Antibiotics may work as well as surgery for children with uncomplicated appendicitis. ......
View ArticleTorture is illegal, but there's the issue of Appendix M
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A little-known appendix to the Army Field Manual, the government rulebook for interrogations that bans the harsh practices used after the Sept. 11 attacks, still allows sleep...
View ArticleA New View of Appendicitis
Appendicitis is very treatable, and surgery is no longer the only option. ......
View ArticleDon't have your appendix out...just take a dose of antibiotics: Doctors...
Doctors in Southampton, Hampshire, are to launch a new trial in children to see if antibiotic treatment can treat appendix infections and save the NHS £200m a year on surgeries. ......
View ArticlePangolin: The World's Most Trafficked Animal Finally Gets Protection
The United Nation's Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species (CITES) ruled to ban all global trade of the pangolin on Wednesday, according to the Christian Science Monitor. The scaly...
View ArticleThe Appendix Might Not Be So Useless After All
The appendix has long been a bit of a mystery. At its worse, it's considered a useless evolutionary throwback whose sole purpose is to give you a nasty case of appendicitis. However, one research team...
View ArticleInflamed appendix? It might be better to leave it in
Appendicitis surgery in children is unnecessary in many cases, according to a study in the Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology journal. Researchers at Southampton Children’s Hospital have found that...
View ArticleFront Burner: Baking Conversions at Your Fingertips
“The Baker’s Appendix” compiles common conversions — temperatures, metric and pan sizes — for the home cook. ......
View ArticleA woman fights to save her rhinos armed only with her grandmother's shotgun
Lynne MacTavish lives in a small wooden house on her South...
View ArticleMichelle Wie set to have surgery to remove appendix
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) -- Michelle Wie was set to have surgery Sunday to remove her appendix. Wie withdrew before the final...
View Article'Deliver your baby, take appendix out': Government's plan to alleviate doctor...
The Federal Government appoints Professor Paul Worley to be the National Rural Health Commissioner to lead the push to improve rural health services with a return to the "old-fashioned general...
View ArticleWalter Williams: Let's limit spending
Some people have called for a balanced budget amendment to our Constitution as a means of reining in a big-spending Congress. That's a misguided vision, for the simple reason that in any real economic...
View ArticleLocal Republican Club president: Cover Gibson instead
In case you missed it, Ted Nugent spoke Thursday to McLennan County Republican Club members about gun rights. Club President Wesley Lloyd started the event with a few remarks, including a suggestion...
View ArticleOfficials ask to keep landfill away from Hallsburg
Waco Tribune-Herald reporter J.B. Smith has covered the city of Waco's discussions on potential landfill sites under review. While the ultimate decision for where to place a new landfill rests with the...
View ArticleFlores: We have just beat the crud out of Isis
U.S. Rep. Bill Flores, a Bryan Republican whose district includes Waco, swore in McLennan County Republican Chair Jon R. Ker on Monday outside the courthouse. +4 U.S. Rep. Bill Flores, a Bryan...
View ArticleExaminer blames Iowa child's death on burst appendix
DUNKERTON, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a 6-year-old child in northeast Iowa died from complications that arose after his appendix...
View ArticleAppendix is more important than we think
Unlike what most people believe, your appendix has the very important function. It helps to strengthen and support your immune system. Four years, physician believed your organ appendix is a vestigial...
View ArticleDoctors: Playing Doctor to Our Children
We dismissed our 9-year-old son’s complaints and directed him to the bathroom. But then he stopped eating. ......
View ArticleSeven body organs you can live without
Komsan Loonprom/Shutterstock The human body is incredibly resilient. When you donate a pint of blood, you lose about 3.5 trillion red blood cells, but your body quickly replaces them. You can even lose...
View ArticleAntibiotics For Appendicitis May Save Thousands From Surgery To Remove Appendix
People who suffer from acute appendicitis may be successfully treated with antibiotics and do not have to undergo surgical operation to...
View ArticleReaders weigh in on confirmation hearings, appendix surgery, Democrats
I would hope that all of those who have Beto signs in their yards have been watching the nomination proceedings of Justice Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. The actions of the Democrats on that...
View ArticleAn organ once deemed “useless” may play a role in Parkinson’s disease
For years, medical scientists have suspected the appendix—a tiny organ tucked away near our large intestines—lacks a real purpose in our bodies. They believed it was a vestigial organ, that might have...
View ArticleAppendix removal is linked to lower Parkinson's risk
WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have found a new clue that Parkinson's disease may get its start not in the brain but in the gut — the appendix, to be exact. New...
View ArticleRemoving appendix linked to lower risk of Parkinson's disease: study
Whether or not someone has their appendix removed may play a role in development of Parkinson’s disease, according to a new study. ......
View ArticleAppendix removal is linked to lower risk of Parkinson's
WASHINGTON -- Scientists have found a new clue that Parkinson's disease may get its start not in the brain but in the gut -- maybe in the appendix.People who had their appendix removed ......
View ArticleAppendix may play role in development of Parkinson’s disease
Scientists say people who had their appendix removed were 20 percent less likely to develop the disorder. ......
View ArticleThe lowly appendix may play surprising role in development of Parkinson’s...
The appendix has long been dismissed as an organ that has outlived its usefulness in human evolution. But new research suggests it may play an active — and detrimental — role in the development of...
View ArticleAppendix Removal May Lower Risk For Parkinson’s Disease
A new study has revealed that removing the appendix early in life can lower a person’s risk of developing Parkinson’s disease by 19 to 25...
View ArticleHaving Your Appendix Removed Could Lower Your Risk Of Parkinson’s Disease By 20%
It may be painful, but there could be an unusual upside to appendicitis: Those who have had their appendix removed are 20% less likely to develop Parkinson’s disease, according to a new analysis of...
View ArticleAppendix removal is linked to lower risk of Parkinson’s
Scientists have found a new clue that Parkinson's disease may get its start not in the brain but in the gut – maybe in the appendix. ......
View ArticleAppendix may be linked to Parkinson's development
The appendix has long been dismissed as an organ that has outlived its usefulness in human evolution. But new research suggests it may play an active — and detrimental — role in the development of...
View ArticlePersonal Health: The Case Against Appendectomies
The appendix is turning out to contain biologically useful tissue that may help prevent nasty gastrointestinal ills. ......
View ArticleThe appendix is not a useless organ
Pity the poor appendix, a 2 to 4-inch-long, wormlike pouch dangling from the head of the caecum, where the large and small intestines meet. For most of its medical history — anatomists have known about...
View ArticleStudy explores link between appendix, Parkinson's: Ask the Doctors
Q: Is it true that there's a link between the appendix and Parkinson's disease? I thought all an appendix ever does is burst sometimes. Does this mean we should get our appendixes removed, the way our...
View ArticleStudy reveals appendix may play role in developing Parkinson's
Dear Doctor: Is it true that there’s a link between the appendix and Parkinson’s disease? I thought all an appendix ever does is burst sometimes. Does this mean we should get our appendixes removed,...
View ArticleInjured Brian Boyle, Wayne Simmonds back at practice for Predators
Brian Boyle, Wayne Simmonds returned to Predators practice Friday but it hasn't been announced when they will play. ......
View Article'The appendix of the skeleton': Why are more and more people born with this...
There’s a good reason you’ve never heard of the fabella, a tiny bone embedded in the tendon of the knee. The bone, whose name means “little bean,” doesn’t seem to serve any purpose. Not everyone has...
View ArticleGetSwift Limited Announces Appendix 4C and Board Update
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 26, 2019--GetSwift Limited (ASX: GSW) (‘GetSwift’ or the ‘Company’), today lodged its unaudited Appendix 4C Report for the period ending 31 March 2019. Total revenue and...
View ArticleKelly Clarkson undergoes appendix surgery after hosting awards show
Singer Kelly Clarkson has revealed she fought through the pain to host an awards show before undergoing appendix surgery the next morning. The pop star and inaugural winner of American Idol was on...
View ArticleKelly Clarkson had appendix removed after hosting awards
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kelly Clarkson had her appendix removed soon after hosting the Billboard Music Awards. The 37-year-old tweeted she...
View ArticleAppendix removal can lead to Parkinson’s
Washington: Patients who had their appendix removed were more than three times as likely to develop Parkinson's as those who had not, according to a recent study. Analysis of over more than 62 million...
View ArticleAppendix removal: does it really increase your risk of getting Parkinson's...
Inspiration GP/Shutterstock Recent scary press reports suggest that having your appendix out could triple your risk of getting Parkinson’s disease . Given that there is currently no cure for this...
View ArticleInflamed appendix critical
Dear Doctor K: Why do doctors remove the appendix when someone has appendicitis? Don’t we need this organ? ......
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