Background: Recent literature supports the use of CT for all patients with right lower quadrant pain to improve diagnostic accuracy and reduce hospital cost. Our current practice at a large ...

We all have an appendix. Getting it removed in an emergency in America or Britain can involve a whole different set of ...

[2] Noncontrast CT in the emergency diagnosis of appendicitis is attractive for several reasons. Administration of oral contrast consumes valuable time in today's fast-paced and overcrowded ED.

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A U.K. woman had 13 organs removed following a rare cancer diagnosis. Rebecca Hind, 39, of Cumbria, England, initially ...

Robert Irwin appeared downcast on Saturday as he arrived at the annual Steve Irwin gala in Las Vegas without his sister Bindi ...

"But after a CT scan and biopsies, I learned I had pseudomyxoma peritonei (PMP) - and that it was widespread. They surgically ...

Emergency Medicine Day highlights the importance of preparedness and swift action in life-threatening situations to save ...

She took herself to the doctors after a bout of food poisoning, but what she discovered turned her life upside down.

Rebecca Hind contracted food poisoning at a work Christmas meal, but her sickness never went away - she was eventually ...

REBECCA Hind was forced to have thirteen organs removed after food poisoning from a work party led to her being diagnosed with a rare and incurably ‘jelly belly’ cancer. The ...

Rebecca Hind was diagnosed with rare cancer Pseudomyxoma Peritonei after previously mistaking the symptoms for food poisoning ...