A sore throat is not exactly the most obvious side effect of having your appendix out but for Jeff Scholtz it was proof he had secured his place in medical history. Mr Scholtz is one of the first ...

Breaking new ground in what many surgeons consider the next frontier in minimally invasive surgery, surgeons have successfully performed an appendectomy with no abdominal incision. The appendix was ...

Breaking new ground in what many surgeons consider the next frontier in minimally invasive surgery, Yale School of Medicine and Yale-New Haven Hospital surgeon Kurt Roberts, M.D., successfully ...

When the patient came in, she was having repeated bouts of lower abdominal pain. The doctor suspected appendicitis and scheduled surgery. But instead of spending five days in the hospital and three to ...

Approximately 50,000 appendicectomies are carried out by the NHS each year. Here Jody Ford, 26, a strategic analyst from London, describes an operation to remove his gangrenous appendix, and his ...

On Wednesday, March 12, 2008, surgeons at UC-San Diego Medical Center performed what is believed to be the country's first removal of a diseased appendix through the mouth. They made one small ...

Kiran Rao was hospitalised for appendix surgery and shared a funny 'Kim Kardashian moment' after doctors removed a 12 mm ...

MEDICAL MATTERS: Doctors in training usually have a fair idea of what they want to specialise in. So when working the obligatory six-month surgical internship, those with no real interest in surgery ...

Surgeons failed to remove Mr Wattson's appendix at the first attempt Credit: Photo: GETTY Mark Wattson, from Swindon, Wilts, had two appendectomies in a month after doctors failed to remove the ...