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 ...

From January 1998 to December 2003, a total of 1873 patients were diagnosed with acute appendicitis at the Taipei Veterans General Hospital. Of these, 16 were found to have colorectal cancer at ...