Last updated: 7 September 2026
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Do not use our articles to self-diagnose or to diagnose someone else. Symptoms overlap across conditions — including between minor problems and serious ones — and the differences that matter usually require examination or testing to find.
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- Medical knowledge changes. Guidance that was standard when an article was published may have been revised since.
- Evidence is often incomplete or contested. Where that is true, we try to say so, but not every uncertainty can be captured in an article.
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