Having an operation to remove your appendix may become a thing of the past after a study found antibiotics are almost as effective as the surgery. Doctors split 1,500 patients who suddenly fell ill ...

Appendicitis patients could soon be spared the ordeal of surgery and treated with antibiotics. The current treatment, called an appendectomy, is carried out around 70,000 times a year in the UK and ...

Psychologist Kimberley Wilson and Dr Xand van Tulleken take a journey around the human body. Today, they discover the truth about an organ long dismissed as useless: the appendix. Listen now. Around 8 ...

Filmmaker Kiran Rao recently underwent appendix surgery and is recovering well. Her experience has renewed focus on ...

A girl of five who died during surgery to remove her appendix may not have needed the operation in the first place. Paige Young had two heart attacks during the procedure after suffering from sickness ...

Standing next to her daughter Paige’s tiny body Siobhan Smith desperately whispered in her little girl’s ear, begging her to keep clinging on to life. Doctors frantically performed CPR in front of the ...

Filmmaker Kiran Rao underwent appendix surgery at a Mumbai hospital after a health scare. She is now discharged and ...

Thousands of young women are being unnecessarily admitted and undergoing surgery they do not need each year in NHS hospitals, according to researchers who looked at data from around Europe. They found ...

Surgeons have removed a man's appendix through his mouth in a radical world first. The pioneering operation - dubbed "cakehole surgery" - means no unsightly scars, and the patient was doing sit-ups ...

Two-thirds of appendix operations may be unnecessary and could be treated simply by using antibiotics, according to a new study. Medical "dogma" and 130 years of tradition mean doctors often wrongly ...