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<item><title><![CDATA[ Stress Wasn't The Problem ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/15/AR2008081503120.html?nav=rss_health</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/15/AR2008081503120.html?nav=rss_health</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Karima Hijane could not believe what she was hearing: The obstetrician who for two years had insisted that her mystifying constellation of symptoms was the result of stress had discovered the real cause, imparting devastating news that would alter Hijane's plans for her future. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sandra G. Boodman]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Stress]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wasn't]]></category><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Problem]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ As Plain as The Rash On His Feet ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/25/AR2008072502936.html?nav=rss_health</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/25/AR2008072502936.html?nav=rss_health</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Even before he entered the examining room to meet his new patient, dermatologist Howard Luber was confident he knew what was wrong with the man. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sandra G. Boodman]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[As]]></category><category><![CDATA[Plain]]></category><category><![CDATA[as]]></category><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rash]]></category><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[His]]></category><category><![CDATA[Feet]]></category><category><![CDATA[Howard Luber]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Clark]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Phoenix]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Academy of Dermatology]]></category><category><![CDATA[Elidel]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Institutes of Health]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Fever That Was Frightening ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/20/AR2008062002501.html?nav=rss_health</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/20/AR2008062002501.html?nav=rss_health</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Nighttime, Greg Licameli remembers, was always the worst. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sandra G. Boodman]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fever]]></category><category><![CDATA[That]]></category><category><![CDATA[Was]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frightening]]></category><category><![CDATA[Greg Licameli]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boston]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Atlanta]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marshall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Motrin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tylenol]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard Medical School]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Institutes of Health]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Five Doctors, Stumped ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/02/AR2008050203399.html?nav=rss_health</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/02/AR2008050203399.html?nav=rss_health</guid><pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A. Bruce Munro wonders how things might have turned out if he hadn't lost it and dialed 911.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/health;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3419102456626" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/health;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3419102456626" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sandra G. Boodman]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Five]]></category><category><![CDATA[Doctors,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stumped]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bettie Munro]]></category><category><![CDATA[A. Bruce Munro]]></category><category><![CDATA[Inova Health System]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Suspect Diagnosis ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/28/AR2008032803184.html?nav=rss_health</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/28/AR2008032803184.html?nav=rss_health</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It was the middle of the night in May 2006 when Alison Raphael, camped out in her daughter's Manhattan sublet, realized she had a problem she could no longer ignore. The faint traces of blood she'd noticed in her urine earlier in the day had become a crimson stream, and the dull ache on the right side of her groin had intensified. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sandra G. Boodman]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Suspect]]></category><category><![CDATA[Diagnosis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alison Raphael]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martin Wolfe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cipro]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Atlanta]]></category><category><![CDATA[Central Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dead Sea]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Washington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lake Malawi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manhattan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pretoria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Takoma Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carter Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Centers for Disease Controland Prevention]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ghana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kenya]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Institutes of Health]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peace Corps]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of State]]></category><category><![CDATA[UNICEF]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Suspect Diagnosis ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/29/AR2008022903056.html?nav=rss_health</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/29/AR2008022903056.html?nav=rss_health</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Whenever doctors told Ruben Galiano that his wife, Olga, had multiple sclerosis, he tried not to look as though he didn't believe them. To the former hotel cook, her symptoms resembled those he had seen in stroke patients. And the MS medication she had been taking hadn't done a thing. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sandra G. Boodman]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Suspect]]></category><category><![CDATA[Diagnosis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ruben Galiano]]></category><category><![CDATA[Olga Galiano]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carlos A. Mora]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baltimore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guatemala City]]></category><category><![CDATA[Silver Spring]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown University]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Institutes of Health]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Multiple Sclerosis Society]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guatemala]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Most Exotic Cough ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/01/AR2008020103211.html?nav=rss_health</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/01/AR2008020103211.html?nav=rss_health</guid><pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Vicki Schulkin's cough was driving her crazy. Every time she caught a cold or her allergies flared, so would the wracking, phlegmy paroxysms that had waxed and waned for nearly four years. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sandra G. Boodman]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Most]]></category><category><![CDATA[Exotic]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cough]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vicki Schulkin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mary Buesing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hawaii]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sporanox]]></category><category><![CDATA[Southeast Asia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thailand]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Health and Human Services]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Illness Takes Toll on Boy And Parents ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/07/AR2008010702046.html?nav=rss_health</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/07/AR2008010702046.html?nav=rss_health</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ By the time her son was 4 months old, Lynn Richards was certain something was wrong. Baby Oliver couldn't lift his head, which was unusually large, and he was as floppy as a rag doll.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/health;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3419102458190" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/health;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3419102458190" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sandra G. Boodman]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Illness]]></category><category><![CDATA[Takes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Toll]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boy]]></category><category><![CDATA[And]]></category><category><![CDATA[Parents]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eduardo Fox]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lynn Richards]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joshua Stearns]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Children's National Medical Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Falls Church]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Arlington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh]]></category><category><![CDATA[Inova Fairfax Hospital]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Library of Medicine]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Environmental Protection Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Common Symptoms Can Deceive ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/07/AR2007120702046.html?nav=rss_health</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/07/AR2007120702046.html?nav=rss_health</guid><pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ All her life, Jamie Fear's gut had been her proverbial Achilles' heel. When other people contracted colds or other respiratory infections, she got stomach viruses. She tried to baby her digestive system and learned to live with her sensitive stomach. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sandra G. Boodman]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Common]]></category><category><![CDATA[Symptoms]]></category><category><![CDATA[Can]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deceive]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jamie Fear]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brian Loggie]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Omaha]]></category><category><![CDATA[Winston-Salem]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charlottesville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dallas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Don Fear]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Woodbridge (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Creighton University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Inova Fairfax Hospital]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Academy of Sciences]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Institutes of Health]]></category><category><![CDATA[Smith Farm Center for Healing]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Health and Human Services]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wake Forest University]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Pain in the Head ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/09/AR2007110902105.html?nav=rss_health</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/09/AR2007110902105.html?nav=rss_health</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ For six years, Lee J. Nelson searched in vain for the cause of the unrelenting headache centered like a bull's-eye above the bridge of his nose. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sandra G. Boodman]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pain]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Head]]></category><category><![CDATA[Neta Nelson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sonya Malekzadeh]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lee J. Nelson]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Library of Medicine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Botox]]></category><category><![CDATA[Seroquel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown]]></category><category><![CDATA[London]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philadelphia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Suzette Mikula]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown University]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Pennsylvania]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Blinding Occurrence ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/05/AR2007100502252.html?nav=rss_health</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/05/AR2007100502252.html?nav=rss_health</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ An avid hockey player since age 6, Lucio "Lou" Battista is no stranger to pain. "He has a very high tolerance," his mother, Liz Battista, said of her only child. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sandra G. Boodman]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Blinding]]></category><category><![CDATA[Occurrence]]></category><category><![CDATA[Liz Battista]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cecile Fray]]></category><category><![CDATA[Herschel Lessin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Advil]]></category><category><![CDATA[Demerol]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hopewell Junction]]></category><category><![CDATA[Providence (Rhode Island)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Johnson & Wales University]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Honor Society]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Chickenpox? No, Worse. ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/31/AR2007083101804.html?nav=rss_health</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/31/AR2007083101804.html?nav=rss_health</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The afternoon she walked into the office of internist Wayne Meyer, Deborah Kaplan had never felt worse. Hours earlier Kaplan had been sent home from a Maryland emergency room with a diagnosis of chickenpox. She was too sick to cool her heels for the customary 2 1/2 hours in the waiting room of her regular physician, and a family friend had recommended Meyer. Kaplan knew she had to get help for the horrible itching sores that blanketed her face and body and were invading the inside of her mouth.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/health;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3419102502687" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/health;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3419102502687" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sandra G. Boodman]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Chickenpox?]]></category><category><![CDATA[No,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Worse.]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ 11th Doctor Sees 'Ghost' ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/10/AR2007081001808.html?nav=rss_health</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/10/AR2007081001808.html?nav=rss_health</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The worst moment of Jacquelyn Silverman's two-year medical ordeal came on her 36th birthday. She had donned a new pair of earrings that were a gift from her husband and was trying to slip on her glasses to admire them when she realized her face had gotten so fleshy the spectacles no longer fit. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sandra G. Boodman]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[11th]]></category><category><![CDATA[Doctor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sees]]></category><category><![CDATA['Ghost']]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ From Odd Behavior to a Difficult Diagnosis ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/09/AR2007070901320.html?nav=rss_health</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/09/AR2007070901320.html?nav=rss_health</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The initial symptoms were more annoying than alarming, Lynn Field recalls. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sandra G. Boodman]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[From]]></category><category><![CDATA[Odd]]></category><category><![CDATA[Behavior]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Difficult]]></category><category><![CDATA[Diagnosis]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ No More Than Meets The Eye ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/15/AR2007061502128.html?nav=rss_health</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/15/AR2007061502128.html?nav=rss_health</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The patient's mother was frantic, and her doctors were baffled. Despite months of treatment by several specialists, the 9-year-old's eye still looked infected. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sandra G. Boodman]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[No]]></category><category><![CDATA[More]]></category><category><![CDATA[Than]]></category><category><![CDATA[Meets]]></category><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eye]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ It Had to Be More Than Just Stress ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/18/AR2007051801792.html?nav=rss_health</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/18/AR2007051801792.html?nav=rss_health</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In the months before she wound up in the emergency room, Deborah Turner was so exhausted she sometimes had to drag herself up the office stairs clinging to the railing. How, she wondered, had things gotten so bad? Four years earlier she had walked a 26.2-mile marathon. Now she was so short of breath she sometimes had to lie down after brushing her teeth.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/health;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3419102504199" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/health;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=3419102504199" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sandra G. Boodman]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[It]]></category><category><![CDATA[Had]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Be]]></category><category><![CDATA[More]]></category><category><![CDATA[Than]]></category><category><![CDATA[Just]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stress]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
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