Removing a child's ruptured appendix sooner rather than later significantly lowers hospital costs and charges.

Computed tomography (CT) utilization in pediatric patients with non-traumatic abdominal pain increased in emergency departments each year between 1999 and 2007.

What would you expect to pay to have your appendix removed if so needed? $1,500? $182,000? How about any amount in between?

There's now a safe and viable alternative to surgery for patients suffering from appendicitis.

Antibiotics could be just as effective as surgery when it comes to treating one type of appendicitis, researchers at the Nottingham Digestive Diseases Center report in a recently-published study.