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US Woman Vomits Up To 15 Times An Hour, Misdiagnosed For Years Until Rare Illness Found
Sharisse Zeroonian battled undiagnosed vomiting episodes for years before learning she had a rare disorder called CVS. Now managing her condition, she's using film to share her story and spread awareness.
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Texas Man With Autism Faces Death Penalty Due To Alleged Child Murder
The Texas pardons board rejected a clemency appeal on Wednesday from an autistic man on death row whose murder conviction was based on what his lawyers say was a misdiagnosis of "shaken baby syndrome."
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UK Girl Misdiagnosed 30 Times Before Real Cause Of Her Headaches Was Uncovered- A Brain Tumour
She was given an emergency scan which showed she had a 3.5cm brain tumour, which is a pilocytic astrocytoma.
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US Woman Undergoes Chemotherapy Only To Find Out She Never Had Cancer
Lisa Monk, a Texas mother of two, endured a harrowing ordeal after being misdiagnosed with a rare form of blood vessel cancer.
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UK Woman With Bloated Stomach Was Told She Was Pregnant. She Actually Had Ovarian Cancer
Doctors told her she had a bloated stomach because she was pregnant, but her pregnancy tests came back negative.
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36-Year-Old Beauty YouTuber Jessica Pettway Dies Of Cervical Cancer After Misdiagnosis
She revealed in July last year that she had been misdiagnosed with fibroids initially.
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UK Man, 25, Dies Of Brain Tumour After Doctors Misdiagnose It As Appendicitis
Doctors gave him only three months to live, but he died just 12 days after the diagnosis on September 17.
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Diagnostic Errors Kill Hundreds Of Thousands In US Each Year, Study Estimates
The study found that these diagnostic mistakes frequently happen when individuals display symptoms other than those that are most frequently linked to the illness.
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Why Your Wife Won't Admit She Snores As Loud As You
Social stigma prevents women from reporting about the problem of snoring leading to under-diagnosis or misdiagnosis of obstructive sleep apnoea, a serious sleep disorder.
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Girl, 12, Was Told She Had Flu. Misdiagnosis May Have Caused Her Death.
Alyssa Alcaraz loved to sing, not only in her school's choir but in videos she would post to Musical.ly, an app that allows users post short music, lip-syncing and dance videos.
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The Newly Identified Type 3c Diabetes Is Being Wrongfully Diagnosed
Here's an evidence to prove how doctors might be misdiagnosing type 3c diabetes to be type 2 diabetes.
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Have High Blood Pressure? Might Be A Case of Misdiagnosis
While high blood pressure is turning out to be common and more and more people are getting diagnosed, a new study reveals something rather shocking.
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A Deadly Misdiagnosis: India's Potential To Beat Tuberculosis
The Stop TB Partnership in its five years strategy on tuberculosis “Global Plan to End TB 2016-2020” estimated that $56bn is required to eliminate this curable disease. The report further says that with the required funding, 10 million lives can be saved, 29 million people can get tuberculosis treatment and this can prevent 45 million people t...
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US Woman Vomits Up To 15 Times An Hour, Misdiagnosed For Years Until Rare Illness Found
Sharisse Zeroonian battled undiagnosed vomiting episodes for years before learning she had a rare disorder called CVS. Now managing her condition, she's using film to share her story and spread awareness.
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Texas Man With Autism Faces Death Penalty Due To Alleged Child Murder
The Texas pardons board rejected a clemency appeal on Wednesday from an autistic man on death row whose murder conviction was based on what his lawyers say was a misdiagnosis of "shaken baby syndrome."
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UK Girl Misdiagnosed 30 Times Before Real Cause Of Her Headaches Was Uncovered- A Brain Tumour
She was given an emergency scan which showed she had a 3.5cm brain tumour, which is a pilocytic astrocytoma.
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US Woman Undergoes Chemotherapy Only To Find Out She Never Had Cancer
Lisa Monk, a Texas mother of two, endured a harrowing ordeal after being misdiagnosed with a rare form of blood vessel cancer.
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UK Woman With Bloated Stomach Was Told She Was Pregnant. She Actually Had Ovarian Cancer
Doctors told her she had a bloated stomach because she was pregnant, but her pregnancy tests came back negative.
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36-Year-Old Beauty YouTuber Jessica Pettway Dies Of Cervical Cancer After Misdiagnosis
She revealed in July last year that she had been misdiagnosed with fibroids initially.
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UK Man, 25, Dies Of Brain Tumour After Doctors Misdiagnose It As Appendicitis
Doctors gave him only three months to live, but he died just 12 days after the diagnosis on September 17.
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Diagnostic Errors Kill Hundreds Of Thousands In US Each Year, Study Estimates
The study found that these diagnostic mistakes frequently happen when individuals display symptoms other than those that are most frequently linked to the illness.
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Why Your Wife Won't Admit She Snores As Loud As You
Social stigma prevents women from reporting about the problem of snoring leading to under-diagnosis or misdiagnosis of obstructive sleep apnoea, a serious sleep disorder.
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Girl, 12, Was Told She Had Flu. Misdiagnosis May Have Caused Her Death.
Alyssa Alcaraz loved to sing, not only in her school's choir but in videos she would post to Musical.ly, an app that allows users post short music, lip-syncing and dance videos.
-
The Newly Identified Type 3c Diabetes Is Being Wrongfully Diagnosed
Here's an evidence to prove how doctors might be misdiagnosing type 3c diabetes to be type 2 diabetes.
-
Have High Blood Pressure? Might Be A Case of Misdiagnosis
While high blood pressure is turning out to be common and more and more people are getting diagnosed, a new study reveals something rather shocking.
-
A Deadly Misdiagnosis: India's Potential To Beat Tuberculosis
The Stop TB Partnership in its five years strategy on tuberculosis “Global Plan to End TB 2016-2020” estimated that $56bn is required to eliminate this curable disease. The report further says that with the required funding, 10 million lives can be saved, 29 million people can get tuberculosis treatment and this can prevent 45 million people t...
