If you've had stomach pain recently, you might have wondered how to check if you have appendicitis at home. Appendicitis is the most common cause of abdominal pain that results in surgery in the ...

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 ...

Venaxis has developed a CE-Marked test to assist in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis. The APPY1 test provides an alternative to CT scans for diagnosis appendicitis. The APPY1 is now being subjected ...

A recent study published in the Frontiers in Pediatrics revealed that among children with suspected appendicitis, a positive ...

Machine learning enabled researchers to identify a genetic biomarker for predicting perforated appendicitis in children presenting with suspected appendicitis, according to a single-center prospective ...

Would the suggested pelvic exam have detected the problem in time to prevent appendiceal rupture? Dr. T was busily growing a family practice in a suburb in the Southwest. A 20-year-old woman came to ...