A Medical Mystery Unfolds in Minnesota
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Officials are trying to figure out why workers at a meat plant were stricken with a strange neurological illness.
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Imagine making an emergency call not for help getting to the hospital but after you've already arrived there. That's what Ray Clement and his wife did last year at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's Shadyside Hospital, where he had gone with a suspected blood clot. When Clement thought...
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The recent death of a middle-aged Alaska woman admitted to Harborview Medical Center for severe, unexplained dementia is being investigated by one of the nation&#39;s leading experts in prion diseases -- a category of illnesses that include so-called mad cow ...
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Health officials on Thursday were investigating the cause of an illness that has spread through an assisted-living facility, leaving one resident dead and eight hospitalized.
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A central Minnesota man in his 50s, with an underlying chronic disease, has died after being infected with the West Nile virus. His death is the first related to West Nile virus to be reported in Minnesota in 2004.
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A South Carolina case has focused attention not just on the danger of an unorthodox therapy but also on the conduct of the state medical board.
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MIAMI -- For almost six months, Fort Myers police have puzzled over the eight skeletons discovered in the spring in a forested wetland.
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The apparent front-runner was out of action for weeks with a mysterious illness.
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ST. LOUIS -- More than a week after she was reported missing, a 68-year-old woman with Alzheimer&#39;s disease who had disappeared while traveling was found by a detective in a New York City hospital.
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A couple who underwent Botox injections last week were hospitalized with botulism poisoning, and health officials were attempting to determine whether the injections were to blame.
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New questions arose on Friday about a cluster of deaths believed to be from a rare brain disease in a single county in upstate New York when tests
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The 62-year-old had been getting routine eye exams for years, but her diabetic retinopathy -- a progressive eye disease associated with diabetes -- had gone undetected.
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U.S. health authorities on Wednesday said they will conduct an investigation to get to the bottom of an unexplained illness marked by skin lesions that do not heal and a batch of other symptoms.
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A study of a closely knit family with several members suffering from a rare illness is providing what researchers say may be important clues to the cause of diseases ranging
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The American Medical Association is concerned, but says more research is needed before a definitive statement can be made.
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Sometimes it's tough for patients to tell the whole story.
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The cause of a mystery illness which killed a bank worker after she cut her foot in India is under investigation.