Dear Doctors: I had a pain on the right side of my abdomen. A CT scan found a perforated appendix with an abscess. I was treated with IV antibiotics, and now I am feeling fine. Do I need to have my ...

What started as a routine stomach ache for a 49-year-old man almost became life-threatening when doctors released him from ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters Health) - When someone has all the signs of acute appendicitis, waiting to get a CT scan to confirm the diagnosis is not a good idea, researchers report. Compared with a ...

An old video of Elon Musk endorsing Grok AI for medical scan diagnosis has resurfaced after a Norwegian man credited it for ...

A 49-year-old man's near-ruptured appendix was accurately diagnosed by an AI chatbot, following a hospital's misdiagnosis of acid reflux.

A 49-year-old man claims Elon Musk's Grok AI helped save his life after doctors missed a dangerous appendix emergency. Musk ...

A new paper in the British Journal of Surgery, published by Oxford University Press, indicates it's now possible to diagnose appendicitis using low-does CT scans, decreasing the radiation exposure, ...

Background: Recent literature supports the use of CT for all patients with right lower quadrant pain to improve diagnostic accuracy and reduce hospital cost. Our current practice at a large teaching ...