Mary Crowley was wrongly diagnosed with terminal cancer - and husband David could not cope with their ordeal.

As her fame exploded, the pop star was secretly enduring years of misdiagnosed pain, chemo treatments, and a shocking ...

Black and Latina women are 20 to 30 percent more likely to be misdiagnosed than White women in the U.S., according to a study ...

What followed was a years-long battle with the disease, which changed her appearance and left her sick, and a commitment to ...

As her fame exploded, the pop star was secretly enduring years of misdiagnosed pain, chemo treatments, and a shocking ...

The early signs of a potentially debilitating stroke—specifically dizziness and headache—are often overlooked in female, minority, and young patients, according to a team of researchers led by a Johns ...

A federal review finds just 5 conditions drive nearly 40% of serious ER misdiagnosis harms in the U.S., with stroke topping ...

In the ongoing absence of a reliable biomarker for multiple sclerosis (MS), misdiagnosis is a common, and persistent, problem that potentially puts patients at prolonged and unnecessary risk. Experts ...

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, ...

Bipolar disorder is both prevalent and disabling. Surveys suggest that patients with bipolar disorder are often misdiagnosed on initial presentation, most often with major depressive disorder. These ...

For mini-strokes, or transient ischemic attacks (TIAs), both overdiagnosis and underdiagnosis can be perilous. Overdiagnosis neglects the real underlying illness. Underdiagnosis leaves a patient at ...