Misdiagnosed

“Dr. Holt, I need you to come listen to one of my second graders. This is one of my best students, but I’m worried I might be overlooking a speech or language disorder—I’m just not sure,” the teacher asked me. I visited her second-grade classroom and listened to the student say, “The mama bird, she jus’ rub’ her body on the baby in the nes’ ’cause it was col’.”This child was Black and was using African American English. To many people in the U.S., including many educators and trained speech-language pathologists, the…

New research indicates that millions might be wrongly diagnosed with high blood pressure due to incorrect measurement techniques. The American Heart Association recommends that blood pressure should be measured with the patient seated and supported, but many healthcare professionals deviate from this method. The study found significant differences in readings taken on an exam table versus those taken in a chair, as recommended.Research reveals that improper blood pressure measurement techniques could lead to millions…

Stiff-person syndrome, which has forced Canadian superstar singer Celine Dion to postpone her European tour, is a very rare neurological condition that causes progressive muscle stiffness as well as muscle spasms.Around one in a million people are estimated to have the condition, according to the US National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD).Symptoms develop over a matter of months or years, normally between the ages of 30 to 60, and can remain stable in some cases or get gradually worse in others.The often painful…

Kanye West Exposes Celebrity Trainer For Threatening Him By Releasing their Personal Chat Online ( Photo Credit – Flickr ) Rapper Kanye West had been facing major backlash from netizens for his anti-semitic comments on social media. Even celebrities namely John Legend, Diane Warren, Jack Antonoff and others targeted the rapper for the same. On the other hand, after Kanye West was previously banned by Twitter for his anti-semitic comments, he recently took to Twitter and posted a note claiming that he was mentally…