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After taking a medicine for years, a man suddenly had weird changes in his taste that made food disgustingDiagnostic Dilemma A man found that many different foods suddenly tasted terrible to him, and the phenomenon turned out to be a rare side effect of his medication.
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Woman's infertility may have been caused by rare semen allergyDiagnostic dilemma A woman and her partner had been trying to conceive for some time. It turned out that a rare allergy may have been hindering their attempts.
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A man was stabbed through the throat and the base of the skull — by a fishDiagnostic dilemma While on a fishing trip, a man sustained an unusual injury from a marlin.
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Viral infection caused woman not to recognize her own fatherDiagnostic dilemma A woman could no longer recognize her father's face and had trouble holding the details of faces in her mind's eye.
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Diagnostic dilemma: Brain scans following a man's hospital visit for leg weakness revealed a surprising findingDiagnostic dilemma A man went to hospital complaining about weakness in his left leg, and subsequent brain scans revealed his abnormally small brain.
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Man who donated his body after death had rare 'triple penis'Supernumerary, or extra, penises are very uncommon. Medical students uncovered a particularly rare case while dissecting a cadaver.
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Doctors couldn't explain why a boy was bleeding from his eyes, ears and noseDiagnostic dilemma A case of a boy who bled from his eyes eventually led doctors to a diagnosis that has been reported fewer than 50 times in the medical literature.
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Whiplike rashes appeared on a woman's back after she ate shiitake mushroomsDiagnostic dilemma A woman developed bright-red rashes on her back that looked like marks from a whip, and at first, it wasn't clear what caused them.
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Biopsy triggered 'spontaneous regression' of woman's arm tumorDiagnostic dilemma Doctors describe a strange case in which a tumor in a woman's arm disappeared without specific treatment.
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