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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...