Ariel Quidone, 20, died days after his release. A city report found jail staff watched him vomit and did nothing.

The family of a 20-year-old man who died of appendicitis in Rikers Island custody last year is suing the city and the ...

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

A recent study published in the Frontiers in Pediatrics revealed that among children with suspected appendicitis, a positive ...

Severe appendicitis is sometimes dismissed as mere period pain. But ignoring it can result in serious consequences. Dr Sood explains how to tell them apart. Severe lower abdominal pain is often ...

"Late Show" host Stephen Colbert cancelled this week's episodes while he recovers from an appendectomy, he announced on Threads. "Going forward, all emails to my appendix will be handled by my ...

Background: Acute appendicitis is one of the most common abdominal surgical emergencies in children presenting to the emergency department. Although clinical guidelines emphasize combining symptom ...

A young child being treated for appendicitis actually had a rare, deadly parasite living in her abdomen. The 10-year-old girl had been living in Switzerland for six months after migrating from Eritrea ...

From new friends to dating, asking someone's zodiac sign is a common ice breaker that people ask all the time. A person's zodiac sign, also known as their sun sign, is determined by the position of ...

The Cardinals will have to play the 49ers on Sunday without the help of wide receiver Marvin Harrison Jr. Harrison was diagnosed with appendicitis earlier this week and had surgery to address it. Head ...

If the Arizona Cardinals are hoping to pull off an upset over the division-rival San Francisco 49ers on Sunday, they'll need to do it without one of their best players. Wideout Marvin Harrison Jr.