Appendicitis afflicts roughly one in 10 people during their lifetime and accounts for more emergency abdominal surgeries than any other ailment. Yet, as emergency room doctors know too well, ...

When your child is in pain, the stress might be too much to stomach. It might be that they ate something that doesn’t agree with them — or it could be something more serious like appendicitis. Since ...

My 5-year-old was complaining of stomach pain, and I was worried and had questions. I asked her how bad the pain was and where it hurt and whether it was getting worse. Being a kindergartner, she ...

When children have stomach pain, many parents' minds go to appendicitis, which requires surgery. But if the child can jump without major pain,... Worried your kid might have appendicitis? Try the jump ...

Venaxis has developed a CE-Marked test to assist in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis. The APPY1 test provides an alternative to CT scans for diagnosis appendicitis. The APPY1 is now being subjected ...

The jump test is a real thing, Jennifer Shu, a pediatrician in Atlanta, assures me. "There are studies on the jump test," she explains. "They look at what are the chances if you have a positive jump ...

BANGALORE, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Biopharmaceutical company AspenBio Pharma Inc said it chose a faster clearance path for its blood test for appendicitis, driving its shares up almost 21 percent. The ...

Machine learning enabled researchers to identify a genetic biomarker for predicting perforated appendicitis in children presenting with suspected appendicitis, according to a single-center prospective ...