News tagged with misdiagnosis
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, Conditions, Syndromes
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 ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
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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