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Unhealthy habits see return of rare disease
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A disease that had all but vanished from the western world more than a 100 years ago, is making a surprise comeback, confounding doctors.Scurvy, the dreaded disease most commonly known for wiping out entire ships of sailors hundreds of years ago, had all but disappeared from the world, thanks to the connection being made that the disease was a direct result of a lack of Vitamin C.With the days of year-long ocean voyages with no fresh food now thing of the past, it seems almost impossible Scurvy would ever return.Yet it has, obesity and diabetes expert Professor Jenny Gunton from the Westmead Institute believes Scurvy is reappearing due to poor modern dietary habits.She said several of her patients at Westmead Hospital with long-running unhealed wounds were cured by a simple course of vitamin C."All of them who turned out to have low vitamin C ate vegetables pretty much every day but they cooked them a lot," she said.
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Doctor now studying rare disease that nearly killed him
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When David Fajgenbaum's mother died of brain cancer, the Georgetown University student founded Students of Ailing Mothers and Fathers in 2007 to cope.Now a doctor who's been diagnosed with a rare and deadly disease, he's founded another organization, the Castleman Disease Collaborative Network, where he works with fellow patients to advance understanding of the disease.But he barely made it to this point; after a 2010 flu-like illness that landed him in an ICU for six months and got so bad his last rites were read to him, the then-medical student was diagnosed with a subtype of an immune system disorder known as Castleman disease, reports CBS News.In spite of multiple relapses, he graduated in 2013 and went on to earn his MBA in 2015.
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Doctor with rare Castleman disease works to find cure
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Mileva RepaskyIn 2010, Dr. David Fajgenbaum was a third-year medical student at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania when suddenly, his health took an unexpected turn.Over the course of a few weeks, he began experiencing symptoms he couldn't place at first — everything from fatigue to night sweats to weight loss.His condition worsened, and he ended up spending more than six months in critical condition at Penn's intensive care unit.It got so bad that he was even given last rites in November 2010.
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