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REETA CHAKRABARTI: Lying in bed in the early hours, I was woken by a strange and sharp pain at the top of my tummy. It was puzzling. It didn't feel like food poisoning or a stomach bug.
Colby Cosh: Have we been treating appendicitis all wrong? © Provided by National Post These are strange times if you’re a swollen, painful appendix. On Monday, the medical school of Ireland’s Royal College of Surgeons announced the outcome of a trial that looked into one of the most intriguing issues in modern medicine: can simple cases of appendicitis be treated with antibiotics alone instead of surgery? This may sound unthinkable to the layman raised in a world that still takes for granted that an inflamed appendix has got to be cut out at all hazards. Doctors once took this dogma ...