When Dr. Jessica Jackson was called to do an evaluation at the hospital where she was the attending psychologist, what she encountered was not a mentally ill patient, but a persistent and dangerous ...

Many sufferers of the autoimmune disease known as lupus whose symptoms were initially brushed off as psychosomatic can develop a long-lasting mistrust of medical providers, according to a British ...

Researchers call misdiagnosis an urgent public health problem. Charity Watkins sensed something was deeply wrong when she experienced exhaustion after her daughter was born. At times, Watkins, then 30 ...

Prevention magazine contributing editor Dr. Holly Phillips joined Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb to discuss how one woman’s cancer diagnosis led her to seek a second opinion, ultimately resulting in ...

Sometimes the story can be told in statistics. India accounts for 13% of the global population, yet it accounts for 42% of global asthma mortality. Around 35 million Indians are thought to be living ...

Being sick is one of the worst feelings, especially when talking about chronic and life-threatening conditions. Even the simplest ailments, such as flu, can put you out of commission. Unfortunately, ...

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Depressive episodes in bipolar disorder can be indistinguishable from those in major depressive disorder, leading to misdiagnosis and poor subsequent outcomes. Approximately 40% of patients with ...