Appendix

Cheers of “Ryan! Ryan!” filled the playground of Hickory Point School Friday as dozens of first graders celebrated their classmate Ryan Bendoff’s recent good bill …...

Paging Dr. Oz -- one of Oprah's anointed ones has taken ill. Lifestyle whiz Nate Berkus was rushed to the hospital on Tuesday with a case of appendicitis. "He was on the 'Today' show this morning, and he wasn't feeling......

We at the Ministry were touched by your response to the hospitalization of lifestyle host Nate Berkus, who required emergency surgery last week for appendicitis. So we did some asking, and your friend Berkus is doing just fine. "He's home......

I can't believe I fell for it. I spent much of the weigh-in doing a "Melissa's gonna get hers!" dance. I was gleefully convinced that it was all going to come crashing down around her ankles -- the gameplaying, the......

Despite everything, "Lighthouse" has ended up being a pretty divisive episode of "Lost." Some of the show's fans and critics loved the episode for tossing out some big picture kind of stuff. Some of the others, though, thought the episode......

Harry Houdini was born 136 years ago today. To mark the day, Susan King goes back to look at a life that included a somewhat-forgotten stint as a movie star. He was born Ehrich Weiss on March 24, 1874, to......

Rudy King is upset with Puyallup’s Good Samaritan Hospital because, he says, his 12-year-old son has a dangerous medical condition that could have been avoided if he had been given a CT scan. King, an emergency room nurse, said Wednesday that...

Dr. Jonathan Heard A full-time surgeon at King/Drew, Heard was faulted in the 1992 death of Sheriff's Deputy Nelson Yamamoto. The deputy had a better than even chance of surviving his gunshot wounds, but Heard administered a lethal combination of heart...

BY 9 p.m. on March 24, 1999, Petra Lamas had spent nearly a day at King/Drew with her ailing 11-year-old daughter, Patricia Arellano. Patricia had been taken to the hospital with abdominal pain, and doctors had removed her appendix early that morning...

Lucy C. Acton, a former Evening Sun feature writer who later was editor of Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred, formerly Maryland Horse Magazine, died June 7 of cancer of the appendix at Gilchrist Hospice Care. The Timonium resident was 63. "She was a...

When most people undergo an appendectomy, it usually means at least a couple of weeks of rest and recovery before they can go back to work. But when your job is as an NFL quarterback for a team making a playoff push, the timetable tends to speed up...

Morton high school center Luke Scarlata wanted to return to the basketball court the day after he underwent surgery for an inflamed appendix on Jan. 20. His team was in the midst of an impressive 14-2 season, which included winning the prestigious Proviso...