DETAINED—Negros Oriental Representative Arnolfo “Arnie” Teves Jr., have undergone appendectomy procedure and is now recuperating at the Philippine General Hospital (PGH). The surgery was conducted at ...

6. When can I start normal activities? Rest is usually short and most patients leave the hospital in one to three days after the operation. Normal activities can be resumed within one to three weeks ...

Appendectomy may lead to harmful changes in the gut microbiome that contribute to colorectal cancer (CRC), a new report from China suggests. In one part of a three-part analysis, researchers observed ...

Hackensack Meridian Children's Health pediatric general surgeon Margaret M. McGuire, M.D, FACS,FAAP., was the first surgeon at K. Hovnanian Children's Hospital at Jersey Shore University Medical ...

Will natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery become the standard method for the surgical management of appendicitis? Does it offer any marked improvement over classical open appendectomy or ...

Non-Hispanic Black adults more frequently experience delays in receiving an appendicitis diagnosis in hospital emergency departments, putting them at a higher likelihood of perforated appendicitis and ...