Corey Feldman, 54, was diagnosed with severe food poisoning, according to his publicist, following a medical emergency on a flight into LAX that caused him to be hospitalized on June 15.

Appendicitis is the most common nonobstetric surgical emergency in pregnancy. It occurs when the appendix, a small organ in the digestive system, becomes inflamed and infected. Symptoms typically ...

Bullfighter Jose Antonio Morante de la Puebla might be wishing right about now that he never decided to come out of retirement. Considered by some to be the best to ever do it, he found himself on the ...

TUPELO – If you’ve often heard the appendix is an organ in our bodies that has no job, that isn’t true. The appendix does, in fact, have a functional role. “The appendix is a safe house for good ...

Why do humans have an appendix? New research is reshaping our understanding of this overlooked organ and its antiquated role in our biology. The appendix has been treated as little more than an ...

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - An Omaha woman’s trip to the emergency room for a ruptured appendix led to the discovery of a two-pound kidney stone — and a first-of-its-kind robotic surgery in Nebraska that ...

Most people get acquainted with their appendix when it’s inflamed and about to rupture. Sebastian Kaulitzki/Science Photo Library via Getty Images Most people know only two things about the appendix: ...

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The family of a 20-year-old man who died of untreated appendicitis shortly after his release from Rikers Island has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city, alleging jail staff ignored his ...