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  1. #Antibiotics can treat #appendicitis for many patients, no surgery needed
    A quarter of a million people get appendicitis every year in the United States, when a blockage or infection inflames the #appendix. For more than a century, doctors treating appendicitis have usually removed the organ, for fear it might rupture and cause severe infection. After 10 years, more than half still did not need an #appendectomy, new data show
    sciencenews.org/article/antibi
    archive.ph/1uhm0