http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. When researchers from UCLA Medical Center investigated the link between racial disparities and appendicitis outcomes in children, they found that the type of hospital in which black, Hispanic and other minority patients receive care—community, children's or county—affects their odds of developing a perforated appendix. The study published in the January issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons is a first-of-its-kind look at the role hospital type plays in race-based treatment variances among this patient subset. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-racial-disparities-pediatric-appendicitis-treatment.html Surgery Fri, 28 Dec 2012 12:43:40 EST news275921014 Pediatric surgeons can lower health care costs if they remove a young patient's perforated appendix sooner rather than later, according to new study results published in the April issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-surgery-outcomes-children-perforated-appendicitis.html Surgery Mon, 02 Apr 2012 12:03:43 EST news252586993