These celebrities had unexpected medical emergencies -- a few of them with no clue their appendix had just burst. They share ...

The appendix might be known as one of the most famously useless organs, but research says that it might be undeserving of ...

Detained former Negros Oriental Rep. Arnolfo ‘Arnie’ Teves, Jr. underwent appendectomy or the surgical procedure to remove an ...

A new study shows that rates of appendix cancer are rising quickly among millennials and Generation X, especially compared to ...

New research indicates that Gen Xers and older Millennials are three to four times more likely to develop appendix cancer ...

Although cancer of the appendix is rare — typically, it's estimated to affect about 1 or 2 people for every 1 million in the ...

Background—Flow-rate dependencies of the Doppler continuity equation are addressed in this study.. Methods and Results—By use of computational fluid dynamic (CFD) software with turbulence modeling, ...

We tested our algorithms on 23 videos captured from two types of endoscopy procedures. The average sensitivity and specificity for the detection of appendiceal orifice images with the often seen ...

Colonoscopy is an endoscopic technique that allows a physician to inspect the inside of the human colon. The appearance of the appendiceal orifice during colonoscopy indicates a complete traversal of ...

The dimensions of the cup and orifice were detailed in D 1200-58 (1965). ... the method's appendix included a flow formula for each of the three cups in the series. The intention behind the flow ...