(Natural News) The British Medical Association and The National Health Services (NHS) have instructed general practitioners to postpone routine checkups and administer covid-19 vaccines instead. Healthcare systems around the world have been radically transformed in 2020, as family and friends are barred from their loved ones and conditioned to believe that getting vaccinated is the […]

(Natural News) Despite both being classified as diabetes, Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes are actually quite different from each other and therefore need to be treated differently. A new study, however, indicates that a large percentage of adults are being diagnosed with and treated for the wrong type of diabetes. According to a study from the […]

(Natural News) Smartphone users might have seen some apps that can supposedly diagnose concussions and other head injuries from sports. But experts warn that those unapproved apps might only aggravate the brain injury. App developers have marketed their products to coaches and parents for sports-related uses. Their programs are said to diagnose concussions by evaluating […]

(Natural News) A recent study suggests that schizophrenia is often overdiagnosed in patients – when, in fact, they exhibit symptoms of anxiety. Researchers from Johns Hopkins University studied 78 patients referred to their Early Psychosis Intervention Clinic (EPIC) between February 2011 and July 2017. 54 of those 78 patients received a predetermined diagnosis of a schizophrenia spectrum disorder. […]

(Natural News) Multiple sclerosis is scary enough on its own, especially since it is expensive and painful to treat. But a new study warns that one out of every five patients diagnosed with the disease has a different medical condition that shares the same symptoms. A common cause of disability, multiple sclerosis takes place when […]

(Natural News) It turns out that there are many diseases and health issues that share similar symptoms to rheumatoid arthritis, making them likely to be mistaken for the arthritis sub-type and vice versa. Unsurprisingly, arthritis sub-types comprise half of the 12 likeliest suspects for misdiagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatoid arthritis belongs to the autoimmune or inflammatory […]

(Natural News) Have you or someone you know been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS)? People who have must get a second opinion because it could be a misdiagnosis, warns a recently published study conducted in Los Angeles, California. The study involved 241 people diagnosed with MS. These patients were referred to either the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center or the University […]

(Natural News) Health care providers often incorrectly diagnose their patients with urinary tract infections (UTI). They prescribe them antibiotics that may not be necessary. This wrong prescription may lead to the appearance of superbugs with antibiotic resistance. To curb this, the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) released updated guidelines on the diagnosis of asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB). Published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, these new […]

(Natural News) A study published in the Canadian Family Physician says that more than half of Canadian doctors still use manual devices to check for blood pressure which increases the risk of misdiagnosis. There are now automatic electronic devices that are able to detect small changes in a person’s blood pressure, and may be more […]

(Natural News) For the longest time, diabetes has been divided into two classifications: Type 1 diabetes and Type 2 diabetes. Yet, as a new study has demonstrated, it may not be as simple as that. The study, which was published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, suggests that diabetes comprised five clusters, with Type 2 […]