People with schizophrenia, a mental illness, are three times more likely to suffer from ruptured appendix than people without the disorder. Researchers at the National Yang Ming University ...

Feeling a sudden, sharp pain in your lower right abdomen? Don’t ignore it, this could be a sign of appendicitis, a serious ...

Jen-Huoy Tsay; 1 Cheng-Hua Lee; 2,3 Yea-Jen Hsu; 4 Pen-Jen Wang; 3 Ya-Mei Bai; 5 Yiing-Jenq Chou; 6 Nicole Huang*6 1 Department of Social Work, College of Social Science, National Taiwan ...

A recent Reddit post shared a heartbreaking story of a passenger whose appendix ruptured on just the second day of the ...