The children of a Pennsylvania man who was wrongly diagnosed with pneumonia have been awarded $6.4 million by a Pennsylvania jury.

In 2009, the man was playing a basketball game when he began having chest and shoulder pain. He was transported to the emergency room at Temple University Hospital. Emergency room doctors diagnosed the man with pneumonia and allowed him to leave after giving him several medications.

Just a few months later, the man was again playing basketball when he suffered a seizure. He was taken back to the emergency department of the hospital, where it was determined that he had suffered a massive heart attack due to an artery that was completely blocked. He remained in a medically-induced coma until he passed away in November of that same year.

The jury in this case ruled that the negligence of the responding emergency room doctors caused this man to pass away. He left behind five small children, now between 3 years old and 11 years old. These children were awarded the $6.4 million for their loss of upbringing and moral guidance.

Public health officials in the UK have announced that approximately 75 individuals were wrongfully diagnosed with syphilis due to a faulty test kit.

The false diagnoses were given to patients who did not have the disease at all, and others who had more advanced forms of the condition than they originally thought. The commercial kits were used on these patients between November 2010 and September 2011. Eight different laboratories issued these false positives, and will begin to notify the people who were negatively affected.

Health officials said that there should be no lasting health effects due to this wrong diagnosis. People with a more advanced stage of syphilis may require additional medication in order to clear up the infection, but are said to not be contagious.

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A recent study from the Journal of Affective Disorders claims that, when faced with a hypothetical diagnosis situation, only 41% of psychotherapists properly diagnosed bipolar disorder.

The study recruited more than 200 psychotherapists and provided them with hypothetical patients who demonstrated various symptoms related to bipolar disorder, including symptoms of depression paired with possible hypomanic tendencies. 59 percent of the mental health professionals made the wrong diagnosis and therefore were less likely to recommend the proper treatment.

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The California Court of Appeals earlier this month upheld a jury’s decision to award $9 million to a woman after evidence suggested that her doctor had failed to diagnose a brain infection.

The woman suffered brain damage as a result of this failure to diagnose. In December 2003, the woman’s sister took her to a CareMore Medical Group facility, where the doctor failed to recognize the brain infection.

The woman is now partially paralyzed, has trouble sitting, cannot walk, has slurred speech, is in constant pain and must be fed by others.

In their ruling, the jury determined that as a member of the CareMore group, the doctor and the company were liable for the failed diagnosis.

A new study on preventative testing of lung cancer that was recently released, shows that CT scans on lungs show false positives which require invasive secondary looks.

After the “Cumulative Incidence of False-Positive Test Results in Lung Cancer Screening” study, the authors are telling doctors and people who are at risk for cancer that these CT scans have high false-positive rates. According to officials, these screenings have not been proven efficient in finding lung cancer and they pose a health risk to patients.

The study shows that a person probability of getting one or more false-positive from a lung CT scan was 21 percent after one screening and 33 percent after two screenings.

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A woman from New Jersey is suing the city of Manhattan after being misdiagnosed with HIV, Herpes, Hepatitis at a Harlem Hospital.

The woman went into the hospital for a mammogram. She then had her cheek swabbed and a blood test. She was then told that she has HIV. She immediately blamed her husband of 37 years. She thought that he had to have cheated on her. He denied the accusations, but she did not believe him. She couldn’t sleep,work and she threw up constantly.

Three weeks later, the hospital called and said she was perfectly healthy. There was no apology and the damage to her marriage had already been done. She is suing so that this will not happen to anyone else.

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