How a radical surgical approach saved the life of a neonatal nurse practitioner with a rare abdominal cancer - but meant ...

Current research has not found an association between rheumatoid arthritis and appendicitis, but some studies found a link between other autoimmune diseases and appendicitis.

Let’s start with this accurate account of what happened on Feb. 15, 1922, at Kane Summit Hospital in New York City. A doctor ...

An assessment of subhepatic acute appendicitis was suspected and an emergency operation was conducted which revealed an inflamed subhepatic appendix that was on the verge of rupture. At a subsequent ...

With nowhere else to go for medical treatment in The Pas, Flett says he took an 11-hour bus trip from the northern Manitoba town to Winnipeg, where his appendix burst as he waited for a hospital ...

I thought maybe I had an appendicitis and it had burst ... "They asked if I'd had the swelling on my abdomen for long. It had only been two weeks at most." Mrs Jackson was asked to do a chemical ...

When Anna Jackson, 22, started experiencing abdomen pain, she thought it was caused by period cramps or that she had a burst appendix - but she was pregnant and about to give birth ...

A Manitoba man is suing two health authorities and one doctor, claiming that he was refused treatment for a life-threatening condition that was mistaken for a “hangover.” ...

Doctors noticed “swelling” on her abdomen and asked her ... Scottish woman Anna Jackson went to the hospital last March thinking her appendix had burst — and then learned she was pregnant.

But when the pain started "gearing up" she feared she had a burst appendix and rushed to hospital with her partner Euan Smith, 22. Doctors noticed "swelling" on her abdomen and asked her to take a ...

These are not ordinary specimens. The tissues have been swollen 100-fold in volume — akin to inflating a hockey puck to the size of a curling stone. In the process, they become nearly ...

But it was the inflamed appendix of his friend Danny Kaye that convinced Sullivan to make the trip to Minnesota. How’s that? Well, Kaye, as the story is told, was flying his twin-engine plane ...