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This year has produced a glorious array of movie posters, and although there was plenty to admire in the brash marketing of big budget franchise fare – there was some interesting work around Tron: ...

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The appendix may help support the immune system by storing good bacteria. A person can live a normal life without an appendix. The appendix has long been thought to have no significant function in the ...

If you have sharp pain in the lower-right abdomen, go to the hospital because it could mean your appendix has burst. An appendix can burst if appendicitis is not treated in time, causing serious ...

Experts have issued a warning about appendix cancer, which is seeing more and more Millennials develop the disease. The cancer, which is a rare type, is apparently on the rise in two age groups: ...

Colour is one of the quickest ways a poster can tell you what kind of film it’s selling. Before you’ve read the title or registered the actors, your brain has already clocked the palette and filed it ...

Most people only ever think about their appendix if it needs to be removed. But a worrying new trend is rewriting this narrative, as appendix cancer is on the rise in younger generations. A study ...

From the xenophobia of World War II propaganda to the perpetuation of racist stereotypes, these posters were distributed in shockingly recent times. America is no stranger to propaganda posters, ...

BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER. WELL, 20 YEARS AGO, APPENDIX CANCER WAS VIRTUALLY UNHEARD OF. BUT THIS WAS BECAUSE MANY OF THESE CANCERS WERE ACTUALLY MISDIAGNOSED. THE GENERAL SURGEONS IN THE PAST WERE ...

Unexpected medical emergencies can happen in an instant -- and for a handful of celebrities, they had no idea that their appendix was just hours from rupturing. Appendicitis can be a scary situation, ...