When the great escape artist Harry Houdini announced plans to perform at the Orpheum Theatre in 1923, The Vancouver Sun issued a challenge to him: perform a death-defying escape in public outside the ...

In 1972, Jean Whitehorse went to an the Indian Health Service hospital in Gallup, N.M. to treat a ruptured appendix. The ...

In the 1970s, the agency that provides health care to Native Americans sterilized thousands of women without their full and ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A team at Miaoli’s Da Chien General Hospital performed a C-section and removed the appendix of a 26-year-old woman who was 39 weeks pregnant in a single surgery. Lin Jing-wang ...

A former member of a religious group in California testified in court this week that its leader - who is charged with murder in the death of a four-year-old boy and a missing former follower - claimed ...

Appendicitis is a potentially serious condition that occurs when the appendix becomes inflamed and infected. While the small organ tucked in the lower right abdomen often goes unnoticed, problems can ...

FOR three years, Angelica Ortiz was told to “just lose weight” when she visited doctors about her rapidly swelling belly. It swelled so badly that strangers congratulated her on her ‘pregnancy’ – in a ...

Pastor Stephen Asoka and his wife were grateful to God after welcoming their first children together following more than 15 years of marriage The new mother opened up about their journey of trying to ...

A 35-year-old dad and active snowboarder thought his stomach pain was from something he ate. It was colon cancer.