After century of removing appendixes, docs find antibiotics can be enough In a five-year follow-up, nearly two-thirds of patients never needed surgery. Beth Mole – Sep 26, 2018 2:59 pm | 136 ...

A new video from Australia answers the long-asked question, “Why do we have appendixes?” I’ll be honest — until about five minutes ago, the only thing I knew about the appendix is that ...

The scientists found that, out of the more than 488,000 patients who had their appendixes removed, 4,470 (0.9%) of them went on to develop Parkinson's disease.