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 ...

Does the child who has the clothes in her closet arranged by color have OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) or Autism, or is that level of organization simply a manifestation of a quirk of her high ...

As an author of a book about grief and loss, I've listened to hundreds of stories from people about losing their loved ones to a medical misdiagnosis. Personally, I experienced my own astonishing ...

(CBS News) Most people expect to go to their doctor for a solution to their ailment, but getting the correct diagnosis can be harder than you think. Medical misdiagnosis happens more often than ...

A new study shows how common a medical misdiagnosis can be and how severely it can exacerbate a disease. Focusing on a rare, disabling disease known as fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, or FOP, ...

Getting a misdiagnosis by the doctor can be dangerous, even deadly. One study has shown that nearly 126,000 Americans die each year because doctors aren't diagnosing common diseases like hypertension, ...

It’s easy to assume that her case was an anomaly. But medical misdiagnoses are more common than many people think. Johns ...

Charity Watkins sensed something was deeply wrong when she experienced exhaustion after her daughter was born. At times, Watkins, then 30, had to stop on the stairway to catch her breath. Her ...

A new research study shows how common a medical misdiagnosis can be and how severely it can exacerbate a disease. Focusing on a rare, genetic and disabling disease known as fibrodysplasia ossificans ...