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The patient: A 63-year-old woman in Massachusetts The symptoms: The patient went to the emergency department after experiencing nausea and vomiting for about a month, along with decreased appetite. She told doctors that she’d also experienced a burning pain in her upper abdomen and right side of her torso, which wrapped around to her back. She’d tried treating these symptoms …

The patient: A 37-year-old woman in Philadelphia The symptoms: The patient went to the emergency department after four days of pain, swelling and bruising on the upper part of her left knee. She reported that these symptoms appeared after she’d used a massage gun on her leg. What happened next: Doctors took the woman’s medical history, noting that she had …

The patient: A 34-year-old man named Brent Chapman in British Columbia, Canada The medical history: When Chapman was 13 years old, he had a rare and serious autoimmune reaction after taking a normal dose of ibuprofen. This reaction, known as Stevens-Johnson syndrome, trips the immune system, causing cells to attack the skin and mucus membranes. In this case, the syndrome …

The patient: A 65-year-old woman in South Korea The symptoms: The patient had a prior diagnosis of osteoarthritis of the knee — a degenerative joint condition that causes pain and stiffness. She had previously sought medical attention, and was treated with painkillers and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for the condition. She had also previously received steroid injections directly into her knees, …

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The patient: A 52-year-old woman in The Hague, Netherlands The symptoms: The woman visited an outpatient psychiatric clinic and told the doctors that when she looked at people’s faces, she saw them transform into the faces of dragons. She also saw dragon-like faces appear in front of her spontaneously, even when no people were present. These hallucinations were disturbing and …

The patient: A 6-year-old girl in the West Bank The symptoms: The girl was brought to her primary dentist because she had a toothache near her back-right molars, along with a headache, swelling around her right eye, and a fever of 104 degrees Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius). She received acetaminophen to reduce her temperature and oral antibiotics to fight the …

A major Alzheimer’s disease medical group is recommending that specialists may use certain blood tests to help diagnose patients with cognitive impairment in lieu of more complex and invasive tests, a move that could lead more people to get treated for the devastating disease. The Alzheimer’s Association, in its first clinical guidelines on blood biomarker testing, said Tuesday that tests …

The patient: A 29-year-old woman in Lithuania The symptoms: The woman had been trying to conceive with her male partner but had not become pregnant. Two rounds of in vitro fertilization (IVF) also failed to produce a pregnancy, but gynecological exams did not find any underlying causes for why she was unable to become pregnant. (When the patient’s doctors described …