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- Title
Medicine: Last chance clinic.
- Authors
Maher, Brendan
- Abstract
The article reports on cases of unknown and mysterious diseases which plagued the lives of Dunaham Aurelius and Sally Massagee. It mentions that Aurelius has suffered more urological pain than any person have and has released a dozen and a half kidney stones while Massagee has suffered from a deep-red slivers of muscle from her biceps. It relates that such diseases are among those that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has not yet identified. It further affirms that NIH's has created the Undiagnosed Diseases Program, which is an initiative that identify and characterize previously unknown diseases.
- Subjects
DIAGNOSIS; MEDICAL care; CLINICAL medicine; KIDNEY stones; AURELIUS, Dunaham; MASSAGEE, Sally; BIOPSY; DIAGNOSTIC specimens; NATIONAL Institutes of Health (U.S.)
- Publication
Nature, 2009, Vol 460, Issue 7259, p1071
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/4601071a