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, ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created May 11, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 06, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

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 ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created May 05, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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

created Jan 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0