Changes in scientific understanding are prompting renewed scrutiny of disease names and their effects on how patients, clinicians, and researchers view conditions.

Some disease names sound like they belong in a medical textbook no one wants to open. But for families dealing with one of the 14 rare, serious conditions newly added to Social Security’s fast-track ...

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Most people hear the names of medical conditions every day without giving them a second thought, but those names shape how we understand illness, how doctors diagnose it, and how society treats the ...