'NHS doctors brushed off our condition as menopause – what we suffer from is far worse'...
Walking along a sunny, cobbled street in Mallorca, eating ice creams alongside my husband and daughter, my phone rang. It was my GP. ‘The results...
‘Four of us were infected blood victims — I’m the only one still alive’ Kaya Burgess The Times (of London) 17/05/2024...
Abstract We discuss two people with Parkinson’s disease (PD), in whom tremor manifested directly following a severely stressful event. Both were...
"GPs are ignoring cancer warning signs in young people, with too many referred for psychological therapy instead of screening, a leading oncology...
Functional neurological disorder (FND) may mimic various kinds of neurologic diseases and may coexist with other neurologic disorders. In cases...
Independent: Clinics ‘cash in’ by wrongly diagnosing disease Justin Bieber suffers from (Lyme) Private clinics are “taking advantage” of...
Composite reference standards are used to evaluate the accuracy of a new test in the absence of a perfect reference test. A composite reference...
Psychosomatic nonsense strikes again: Teenager with months to live told terminal cancer might be ‘stress’ A British girl with just months to...
While psychiatric manifestations are common in patients with Cushing’s syndrome (CS), to our knowledge, there are no reported cases of CS...
Abstract: Misdiagnosis of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) can occur when different case definitions are used by...
There is/are no substantive data on the frequency at which ME/CFS is a misdiagnosis – that is where a patient with a serious illness is...
transcript: Academic consultants for The Open University: Dr Jitka Vseteckova, Senior Lecturer, School of Health, Wellbeing & Social Care and Dr...
https://bjgplife.com/delicate-diagnosis-avoiding-harms-in-difficult-disputed-and-desired-diagnoses/ BJGP LONG READ ‘Delicate diagnosis’: avoiding...
Abstract Objective There are reports of functional neurological disorder (FND) developing after anaesthesia, though separating any aetiological...
Abstract Background: Prior studies have demonstrated that Lyme disease is frequently over-diagnosed. However, few studies describe which...
Undetected medical conditions can be misdiagnosed as Conversion Disorder/Functional Neurological Disorder(CD/FND). Although misdiagnosis is...
Poll of more than 2,000 people found 26% of respondents were told they had something else More than a quarter of people with Parkinson’s disease...
Chronic Lyme disease may be a misdiagnosis of chronic fatigue syndrome CFS, also sometimes known as myalgic encephalomyelitis, is itself a...
A terminally ill mother-of-two has criticised her GP practice after being told she had Irritable Bowel Syndrome which turned out to be stage 4...
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