Early Sunday morning on Jan. 18, I called 911 for my first-ever ambulance ride as a patient. I was in extreme pain in what seemed to be every joint in my body. On the way, I was diagnosed with a slight fever. And that was just the beginning. I was…

Routine screening for inherited thrombophilia, genetic risk factors linked to excessive blood clotting, is not needed for people with autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA), including cold agglutinin disease (CAD), according to a study. Although people with AIHA are known to face a higher risk of blood clots, inherited thrombophilia risk…

A combination of cold agglutinin disease (CAD) and previously undetected hemochromatosis, a condition marked by excessive iron accumulation in the body’s organs, was likely the cause of severe liver damage in a woman in her 40s in the U.S., a case study reports. Although the woman carried only one…

Although my Scrabble scores may suggest otherwise, I have always been a logophile — a person deeply fascinated by and enamored with words. So it was with double delight that I recently discovered a new term: post-exertional malaise (PEM). PEM is defined as “a delayed worsening of symptoms that occurs…