News tagged with misdiagnosis
Crippling condition associated with diabetes is often misdiagnosed and misunderstood
Robert Winkler says he limped around on his painful left foot for six months, suffering unnecessarily from a misdiagnosis by a physician who didn't know about the symptoms and treatments for Charcot foot, ...
Sep 01, 2011 |
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No clear criteria for diagnosing food allergies, researcher finds
A new study shows that confusion over how to identify and treat food allergies is creating the potential for misdiagnosis of this condition.
May 11, 2010 |
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Race-based misdiagnosis still remains a health care problem
Black men are over-diagnosed with schizophrenia at least five times higher than any other group--a trend that dates back to the 1960s, according to new University of Michigan research.
Jan 06, 2010 |
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Deep Brain Stimulation Found to be Effective in Children with Treatment-Resistant Generalized Primary Dystonia
Dystonia is a very complex, highly variable neurological movement disorder characterized by involuntary muscle contractions. As many as 250,000 people in the United States have dystonia, making it the third most common movement ...
May 05, 2009 |
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Moves to make more prescription drugs available over the counter won't help patients or doctors
Government plans to make certain prescription-only drugs for common problems available over the counter have overwhelmingly been given the thumbs down by healthcare professionals, reveals a survey of readers of the influential ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jan 14, 2009 |
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