Three diseases that were renamed in the past 50 years—and why

A historian of medicine told Newsweek: "Disease names are always provisional because they are human constructs." ...
STAT

My son’s rare disease was renamed ASMD. Why are people still calling it Niemann-Pick?

Ayik is an advocate for people living with rare diseases. Recently, the smoldering embers of conflict in my family’s rare disease community have burst into flames over the use of an eponym: ...
Forbes

Avoid Stigma And Protect Patients, A Neurologist Explains Why Disease Names Matter

Upset woman feeling like a social outcast as she has been suffering from bullying and discrimination. She feels excluded, offended and hurt and is sitting alone in cafe. Disease names are confusing, ...

PCOS is now PMOS: Why diseases like PCOS and NAFLD are getting new names — and why it matters for women worldwide

Medical terminology is evolving to better reflect actual conditions. Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is now Polyendocrine ...
STAT

I don’t know what I’m supposed to call my rare kidney disease

Coffman is a writer, actor, and multi-hyphenate creative. In 2022, I gave birth to a healthy baby girl and triggered a wildly violent chain of events: multiple organ failure, hemorrhaging, blood clots ...
Homeland Security Today

WHO Holding ‘Open Consultation for a New Disease Name for Monkeypox’

A group of global experts convened by WHO has agreed on new names for monkeypox virus variants, as part of ongoing efforts to align the names of the monkeypox disease, virus and variants—or ...
NPR

In 2022, the name 'monkeypox' was nixed. Now the U.S. is reviving it

In 2022, the medical establishment and public health world nixed the name "monkeypox" for two key reasons. Animal-to-human transmission comes from rodents. And the name "monkeypox" was seen as racist ...