Antibiotics Are Effective in Appendicitis, Study Says - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Lottie Peppers on 18 Jun 15For more than 100 years, the standard treatment for appendicitis has been surgery. Now a large Finnish study provides the best evidence to date that most patients can be treated with antibiotics alone. The study, published Tuesday in JAMA, involved 530 patients aged 18 to 60 who agreed to have their treatment - antibiotics or surgery - decided at random.