The lowly appendix may have a purpose after all. New research suggests that the seemingly useless organ provides a safe haven for good bacteria to hang out in the gut. University Medical Center, says ...

For decades, scientists and physicians have believed the appendix really doesn’t have a function in human beings. It may have had a purpose in some living thing tens of thousands of years ago, but ...

The true purpose of the seemingly inert human appendix continues to elude modern medicine, but a new study suggests that those who have the organ removed due to appendicitis are at three times greater ...