Case Studies

The patient presented with complaints of increased muscle tone in her back muscles and the right side of her body starting in adolescence.

A 50-year-old woman presents with a painful lesion on the inside of her upper lip. She has had similar lesions on an intermittent basis over the past several years in this location and on her tongue and buccal mucosa. The lesions heal without scarring. Medical history is negative for systemic disease, and the patient reports…

While rare, cases of arthritis associated with bee and wasp stings have been previously reported in the medical literature.

The patient became severely hypoglycemic within 10 to 12 hours after taking the pain drug.

This case is the first to describe a fatal outcome with such an interaction.

Over a period of three weeks, the patient was hospitalized seven times with BP values reaching over 230/130 mmHg.

Studies show that while statin-induced rhabdomyolysis is considered rare, certain factors may increase the chances for its occurrence.

Perhaps the most important factor is the inadequate recognition of the functional somatic syndromes often mislabeled, and mistreated, as chronic Lyme.

This antibiotic class is rarely linked to liver injury.

Fueled by social media, food challenges have become a trendy new fad, that in some cases, can go from fun to fatal very quickly.