Failure To Diagnose

According to a study involving almost 174,000 women in the Netherlands, the stage at which breast cancer is detected significantly affects how long the women will survive following diagnosis and treatment. Women in New Mexico might be surprised that these results are...

New Mexico parents may be interested in a study done in Boston that discussed the risk factors associated with skin cancers other than melanoma in children. Risk factors are essential to establishing a diagnosis, and dismissing them may result in a faulty diagnosis...

Because a misdiagnosis can be difficult to identify, New Mexico health officials may not have clear statistics about the frequency of such occurrences. In some cases, a misdiagnosis may not do any harm because the treatment selected by a physician still works for the...

Many New Mexico residents contract pneumonia each year. This illness could be caused by a virus or bacteria. It affects the lungs and can cause an excess production of mucus that blocks airways, which may lower oxygen absorption into the blood. There are several ways...

A recent report by the American Lung Association on the subject of pneumonia may be of interest to New Mexico residents. Besides outlining the symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of the sickness, the report offers several recovery tips. A person who is suffering with...

New Mexico residents with mild traumatic brain injuries may be interested to learn that there are dangers associated with overdiagnosing the condition. Some experts say that the risks around mTBI and other diseases and conditions need to be more accurately assessed....

New Mexico readers may be interested to learn that a team of researchers has issued diagnosis recommendations for a rare and often misdiagnosed mitochondrial disease. Their findings were published in the Chinese Medical Journal. The disease, known as mitochondrial...

Many people in New Mexico suffer from certain common health conditions that doctors routinely misdiagnose. When this occurs, patients may be injured either by receiving medication and treatment which they do not need or by not receiving treatment for the condition,...

According to a recently-published study, Lyme disease is often misdiagnosed or not recognized in a patient. Of 6,104 patients who took part in a survey conducted by an advocacy website, 61 percent said it took two years or more to receive a correct diagnosis. Roughly...

According to a new study, the current guidelines for diagnosing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are causing patients to be misdiagnosed in New Mexico and worldwide. The recently-published study calls for the guidelines to be modified. The authors of the study...