Online Search Helps Solve 24-Year Medical Mystery
Confusion, nausea, fever, anger, then back to normal: this was Lauren Vandiver’s life beginning in early childhood. Her parents, Phillip and Angela Vandiver, spent more than twenty years asking the…
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Confusion, nausea, fever, anger, then back to normal: this was Lauren Vandiver’s life beginning in early childhood. Her parents, Phillip and Angela Vandiver, spent more than twenty years asking the…
Rare disease patients spend an average of eight years searching for a diagnosis, and for some, that search can last decades. April Hudson of Quinton, Ala., began showing symptoms of…