Share on Facebook. Opens in a new tab or window Share on Bluesky. Opens in a new tab or window Share on X. Opens in a new tab or window Share on LinkedIn. Opens in a new tab or window A 27-year-old ...

First there was the weird loss of smell and taste associated with COVID-19 infections. Then there was “COVID toes,” known as pernio or chilblains, and peculiar rashes. Now we have another unusual ...

I previously wrote about a rare delusion that causes afflicted people to believe that they are dead—Walking Corpse Syndrome: Dawn of the Living Dead. Here I introduce you to five other strange and ...

Most of us imagine a heart attack as a sudden chest pain and falling to the ground. In fact, the body often gives much quieter signals, sometimes years in advance of a crisis. These can show up in ...

Post-combat syndromes are not unique to the Gulf war, but have arisen after all major wars over the past century, finds a study in this week’s BMJ. Records for 1,856 British servicemen were randomly ...

A 30-year-old Indian man presents to a hospital clinic in Doha, Qatar, with severe pain and numbness in his entire lower jaw, noting that the symptoms developed 4 days earlier. Although his medical ...