In cases of a perforated appendix, I sometimes find the appendix, including the base, grossly gangrenous and seemingly undergoing autolysis. I find it impossible to place a good ligature around the ...

Joy Spence, a 21-year-old social work student from Flatrock, is among several women who say their pain and symptoms were dismissed as psychological or reproductive issues at St. John's emergency ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from NSW. Followed categories will be added to My News. The former TV presenter has told friends that when surgeons eventually located the failed organ it was found to ...

A teenager nearly died when her appendix burst and doctors discovered her bowels were riddled with gangrene. Atlanta McBride, from Halifax, West Yorkshire, went to to hospital after feeling severely ...

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Two weeks after being hospitalised with a ruptured appendix, Tziporah Malkah has been transferred to a second hospital for treatment of a range of associated issues, writes Annette Sharp. The former ...