Joel Embiid was discharged from a Texas hospital and is headed back to Philadelphia after undergoing appendectomy surgery.

Joel Embiid had an appendectomy in Houston after Philadelphia’s star big man was stricken with appendicitis overnight

Cancer research is more than just the study of diagnostics and novel therapies. Researchers also investigate the causes of cancer, be they small or, in this case, vestigial. The appendix has long been thought to be relatively unimportant to the body, and ...

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 versus 56% of those who received medical therapy alone.

February 22, 2011 — For children with a perforated appendix, early appendectomy appears to reduce the time away from normal activities and has fewer adverse events vs another common option, the interval appendectomy, performed several weeks after ...

Antibiotic treatment may be a feasible alternative to surgery for uncomplicated acute appendicitis, according to findings from a 5-year observational follow-up study that compared appendectomy with antibiotic treatment. The appendectomy has been the ...