Joel Embiid was discharged from a Texas hospital and is headed back to Philadelphia after undergoing appendectomy surgery.

Philadelphia 76ers star center Joel Embiid underwent emergency surgery in Houston on Thursday after being diagnosed with appendicitis a few hours before the team fell to the Rockets 113-102 in a ...

Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid has been diagnosed with appendicitis and underwent surgery in Houston on Thursday, the ...

Good news for doctors looking to cut appendectomies out of their schedules. A new study — conducted by Swedish researchers from the Karolinska Institute and published Wednesday in JAMA Surgery — found ...

One has to wonder how long Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid will be out with appendicitis surgery.

Antibiotic management of acute uncomplicated appendicitis among children was inferior to appendectomy, a randomized non-inferiority trial showed. For nearly 850 children with available primary outcome ...

Prior to a game against the Houston Rockets, the 76ers announced star center Joel Embiid will have surgery after being ...

Steven Van Zandt is on the mend! On Monday, June 23, the actor and musician shared an Instagram post revealing he underwent emergency surgery for appendicitis while on tour with Bruce Springsteen. He ...

For decades, surgical appendectomy has been the standard treatment for acute appendicitis. But nonoperative management with antibiotics is an option for some patients. For acute, uncomplicated ...

For patients with uncomplicated acute appendicitis, the noninferiority of oral antibiotics alone compared with a combination of intravenous and oral antibiotics could not be demonstrated in a ...

Stump appendicitis is a rare complication that occurs when the residual appendix becomes inflamed after an appendectomy. It is estimated to occur in between 0.002% and 0.15% of cases, although it may ...

While it is possible to experience appendicitis after a cholecystectomy, the two events are unlikely to be related. Although rare, a person can simultaneously experience problems with both the ...