A 12-year-old male was transferred from an outside facility to our hospital with a suspected diagnosis of ruptured appendicitis. Prior to transport, he received broad-spectrum IV antibiotics and IV ...
Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...
New research suggest the appendix is more useful than the block of of superfluous tissue that it is suggested to be, the Guardian reports. Bill Parker, an assistant professor of experimental surgery ...