Appendix

Despite being rushed to the hospital with appendicitis earlier in the week, "High School Musical" star Zac Efron isn't wasting any time filling his schedule. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Efron will play the lead role in the coming-of-age drama...

SAN DIEGO -- Fourteen-year-old Laura Montero was aboard a cruise ship off Baja California late last week when her appendix ruptured, causing her agonizing pain. The Dawn Princess was out at sea. The ship doctor lacked the anesthesia for an appendectomy....

Ohio State senior Drew Eberly has always played tennis at the highest level. He was one of the Midwest's top junior players as a teenager and one of the top players in Illinois when he played a big role in consecutive state team championships in 2003-...

The source of Julianne Hough's stomach problems is now clear. The "Dancing With the Stars" champ has been diagnosed with endometriosis and will also be undergoing minor surgery Tuesday (Oct. 28) to remove her appendix. Previous reports of an ovarian cyst...

VANCOUVER, CANADA -- Paul Potts -- the British cellphone salesman turned singing sensation and YouTube phenom after dazzling skeptical judges with the operatic aria "Nessun Dorma" on "Britain's Got Talent" -- steps onstage at the Vancouver Centre for...

Jimmy Kimmel may have had his appendix removed, but his sense of humor is intact. The talk show host is cheerfully returning to work Tuesday (June 26) after having to undergo an emergency appendectomy last week. "I feel much better now and am...

previous episode | return to episode guides Original air date March 27, 2006 Lincolns execution and revelation With the governor denying Lincoln a stay of execution, the terrifying preparations go forward for his sentence to death via the electric...

It wasn't exhaustion, asthma or dehydration that sent Lindsay Lohan to the hospital this time. The "Bobby" actress went under the knife to remove her appendix Thursday morning (Jan. 4), confirms spokesperson Leslie Sloane to TMZ.com. Apparently, Lohan...

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...

On the sultry evening of Aug. 11, 1965, a 21-year-old black man named Marquette Frye was pulled over by the California Highway Patrol at 116th Street and Avalon Boulevard for driving drunk. A crowd gathered. Frye resisted arrest. A patrolman struck him...