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 ...

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 ...

Ten-year follow-up results showed that 37.8% of patients who received antibiotics versus appendectomy had a true recurrence of appendicitis. Overall, cumulative complication rates at 10 years were ...

New research published in Anaesthesia shows that for children undergoing emergency surgery for appendicitis in the UK, the risk of postoperative complications in Black children was four times greater ...

Bret Michaels continues to recover from his emergency appendectomy procedure last week, but the rocker-turned-reality star said things could've been a lot worse. "I have played concerts with broken ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . About one-third of children treated with antibiotics for appendicitis experienced treatment failure. Children in ...