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TEMPE, Ariz. -- Cardinals wide receiver Marvin Harrison Jr. was ruled out of Sunday's game against the Jacksonville Jaguars as he continues to recover from appendicitis surgery, coach Jonathan Gannon ...

The appendix may help support the immune system by storing good bacteria. A person can live a normal life without an appendix. The appendix has long been thought to have no significant function in the ...

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Most people only ever think about their appendix if it needs to be removed. But a worrying new trend is rewriting this narrative, as appendix cancer is on the rise in younger generations. A study ...

Universidad de Navarra provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation ES. You may have heard that astronauts have their appendix removed before leaving Earth. After all, people say you can ...

You may have heard that astronauts have their appendix removed before leaving Earth. After all, people say you can live without this organ because it serves no purpose, but how much truth is there in ...

Researchers from the Vanderbilt University Medical Center analyzed data from the National Cancer Institute’s Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Program to arrive at these findings.

Researchers are reporting a startling spike in appendiceal adenocarcinoma (AA) — otherwise known as appendix cancer — in people born after 1945. Cases have more than tripled in Americans born between ...