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Parents in the town of LeRoy, NY are not convinced by the diagnosis of conversion disorder to explain the twitching that has afflicted some of the local teenage girls. CBS News correspondent Seth Doane reports.

Ben Witter, known in the golf world as the Tiger Woods of trick shots, almost went pro until his diagnosis of salivary gland cancer. Now, his 16-year-old daughter is battling bone cancer

PCR--the polymerase chain reaction--is a crucial tool. The DNA amplification technique is used in genome sequencing, forensics and the diagnosis of various diseases.

You’ve heard of tennis elbow. Well, a friend of mine has gamekeeper’s thumb. When he told me his diagnosis, it rang a bell

Research published in Nature Materials this month takes lessons from cooperation in nature, including that observed in insect swarms, to create better targeting methods for cancer therapeutics [1]. "Smart" anti-cancer drug systems can use mechanisms similar to swarm intelligence to locate sites of disease in the human body.

Cataracts can lead to blindness, though it's preventable if you catch them early enough. But for the world's poor--many of whom live in remote regions far from the offices of an opthalmologist--diagnosis is difficult. Which is why MIT's Media Lab has put together a small portable tool that bolts to a smartphone to do the job, possibly even better than a quick eye exam could.

Almost 50% of psychiatric patients get a change in diagnosis over a 10-year period--meaning they may end up taking a slew of unhelpful drugs until doctors finally decide what mental illness they have. But what if a simple blood test could help discern whether patients have schizophrenia, major depression, or bipolar disorder? Rules-Based Medicine , a company that specializes in research and development for drugs and diagnostics, thinks it can.