South Florida vets cope with wounds not always visible - Miami Herald
25 May 2012, 6:56 pm
Although Aguirre and Alban came back alive, both will be coping for some time, Aguirre suffers from an often-misdiagnosed condition known as TBI, or traumatic brain injury, caused by a blow to the head that disrupts the normal functions of the brain.

Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults Often misdiagnosed - Medscape News
25 May 2012, 12:08 pm
May 25, 2012 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) — Almost half of nonobese adult with poorly controlled diabetes have latent autoimmune diabetes that has been misdiagnosed as type 2 diabetes, according to a study presented here at the American Association of ...

Your ADHD-Diagnosed Child May Have Vision Problems, Not ADHD - msnbc.com
22 May 2012, 11:57 am
But many experts feel that a significant percentage of those children may be misdiagnosed. In fact, their real problem may be reversible vision problems, said Dr. John Jacobi of Suburban Eye Care in Livonia, Michigan. According to the Centers ...

Unborn Baby Aborted After Ultrasound misdiagnosed Disability - LifeNews.com
17 May 2012, 8:10 pm
A faulty ultrasound diagnosis at two medical clinics led to the killing of a seven-month-old unborn child in Vietnam who was perfectly healthy. Dr Pham Ba My, director of the Gia Lai Province General Hospital, told a Vietnamese news service that ...

The special needs system is open to abuse - The Guardian
15 May 2012, 11:44 am
Last year, an Ofsted investigation found that one in five pupils is judged as SEN – a whopping 1.7 million children – and suggested that possibly 450,000 had been misdiagnosed. The latest policy initiative is based on this report.

Author Mark Hogan Lends a Glimpse into Autism Spectrum Disorder - YAHOO!
14 May 2012, 10:58 pm
One neurological disorder on the autism spectrum that is often misdiagnosed is Asperger’s Syndrome. Author Mark Hogan shares a rare and intimate glimpse into his battle with Asperger’s in his poignant memoir “The key That Unlocked A Mystery”.

New diagnosis has Richards-Ross feeling better in lead-up to London Olympics - Washington Post
13 May 2012, 12:29 pm
DALLAS — For Sanya Richards-Ross, the cure to the disease may be finding out she never really had it at all. After spending five years fighting an autoimmune disease called Behcet’s syndrome, Richards-Ross now thinks she may have been misdiagnosed.

misdiagnosed Lyme disease: One reader’s horrific experience - Boston Globe
10 May 2012, 1:37 pm
After writing my weekly challenge on protecting yourself against Lyme Disease, I received a poignant and important essay from a reader who has been suffering from a case of Lyme Disease that was originally misdiagnosed and not treated for years ...

Diagnosing And Treating Diabetes In Asian Patients - Unique Physiology Is Key - Medical News Today
10 May 2012, 10:53 am
Without this understanding, diabetes could be misdiagnosed or missed altogether." In the May 2012 edition of Diabetes Care, Dr. King, together with a team of diabetes specialists, published a report highlighting study findings that were ...

Why hundreds of patients a year are misdiagnosed with MS - Oregonian
10 May 2012, 8:01 am
Relying too much on brain scans appears to be one reason doctors each year misdiagnose multiple sclerosis in hundreds of patients whose symptoms are caused by some other disease. Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University and the Portland ...