Most people know only two things about the appendix: You don’t need it – and if it bursts, you need surgery fast. That basic ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Stephen Colbert is away from late-night TV following emergency surgery last week — the comedian's appendix burst. That made us wonder: What does the appendix do for our body? And why are ...

For more than a century, the human appendix has been written off as a biological relic, a shrunken leftover from plant-eating ancestors that serves no real purpose. That view is now outdated. A ...

For many years the general notion has been that the appendix is rather pointless. Evolutionists often maintain that they were useful at one time, but now that we have evolved they no longer serve a ...

When Stephen Colbert cancelled his late night talk show after Thanksgiving 2023, he joked that his audience would think his absence was due to putting a little “too much gravy” on his turkey. But ...

Appendix cancer, also called appendiceal cancer, is when abnormal cells grow and form a tumor in the appendix. Your appendix is a little pouch-like organ attached to the lower right side of your large ...

Once known as a disease of old age, cancer is now striking young and even healthy individuals. According to experts, many kinds of cancers—including colon, breast, stomach, and pancreatic cancers—are ...