Asian children and black children experience higher rates of ruptured appendixes than white children, as do uninsured or Medicaid-insured children, compared to children covered by private insurance, ...

Fear of contracting COVID-19 in a healthcare setting may be associated with a 20 percent increase in pediatric ruptured appendix cases at Falls Church, Va.-based Inova Children’s Hospital earlier this ...

In another sign of racial and economic disparities in the U.S. healthcare system, researchers said Tuesday that minority children and those without private insurance are more likely to suffer a ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Poverty and unfavorable health insurance account for only a small portion of the gap in the number of white versus Hispanic or black children who end up with a burst ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People in rural areas are more likely than city-dwellers to have appendicitis progress to a full-blown ruptured appendix, a U.S. study finds. The reasons for the ...

A Dyker Heights grandmother who died at Lutheran Medical Center got such shoddy treatment her appendix ruptured during her hospital stay, her heartbroken family charges. “I pray for her every night — ...