Wrong Diagnosis In The News

The diagnosis: Of all the TV dramas airing this season, my favorite is FOX's "House." The show stars British actor Hugh Laurie as a misanthropic genius with a knack for diagnosing complex medical mysteries. Each episode, Dr. Gregory House writes the patient's puzzling symptoms on a whiteboard and consults his team of specialists, always identifying the disease just in time to save the patient ...

IT WOULD be wrong to say Fiji never had a prayer against the Kangaroos last night.

A family want answers after their 23-month-old boy died a day after being sent home from Wanganui Hospital.

With her beautiful blue eyes and a smile to melt your heart, at eight months old Jessica Gledhill is everything you could wish for in a baby. But gorgeous though she is, for her parents Donna and Dave there are more important reasons to be grateful for their precious daughter.

Postnuptial depression may not be a clinical diagnosis, but it has entered the lexicon of marriage in the past few years, and newly hitched couples will tell you it's real.

Right diagnosis, wrong cure The New Zealand Vice-Chancellors’ Committee (NZVCC), representing the country’s eight universities, has released overnight a “nine-point plan” for government policy in the sector.

The unprecedented price drops come in the wake of four consecutive downward adjustments which began in July, when eurozone inflation peaked at 4%. The estimated 2.1% rate in November is good news per se, because it is the closest that the bloc has come to achieving the 2% target pursued by the European Central Bank for months.

Is texting in test results the way forward?

ST. ANSGAR, IA - Wheat is a staple of the American diet. The food pyramid suggests the average adult should eat six to eight ounces of grain per day. That's six to eight slices of bread or three to four cups of cooked pasta.

In breast tissue, cells lining the breast's ducts have a certain shape that is required to maintain both organ structure and function. All breast cancers display a loss of this characteristic organization, but very little is known about the molecules and pathways that regulate tissue structure and the role they play during cancer.