Selena Marie Gomez is an American singer, actress, producer, and businesswoman. She first revealed her Lupus diagnosis in an interview with Billboard in 2015 while explaining why she took an extended break from Hollywood, I was diagnosed with lupus, and I’ve been through chemotherapy. That’s what my break was really about. I could’ve had a […]
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Ronald Reagan, his eyesight and contact lenses Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. He was so nearsighted that – as a college football player, his vision was limited to the square yard of turf occupied by the opposing […]
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Donald Trump – 45th and 47th President of the United States (2017 -2021; 2025) – has rosacea, a reddening skin condition that he takes antibiotics to combat. Makeup artists have also speculated that Trump’s facial colouring suggests he uses self-tanner or a tanning bed – partly to make him look younger and partly to […]
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, later the 32nd president of the United States (1933 -1945), began experiencing symptoms of a paralytic illness in 1921 when he was 39 years old. His main symptoms were fever; symmetric, ascending paralysis; facial paralysis; bowel and bladder dysfunction; numbness and hyperaesthesia; and a descending pattern of recovery. Rare photograph of […]
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John F Kennedy (JFK)’s complex medical and surgical history The 35th president of the United States, John F. Kennedy (JFK), had a complex medical and surgical history that is now thought to be an autoimmune polyglandular syndrome type 2 with Addison’s disease and hypothyroidism. He also had gastrointestinal symptoms from adolescence, which now fit well […]
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Lyndon Johnson and his kidney stone Lyndon Baines Johnson – often referred to by his initials ‘LBJ’ – was the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. He previously served as the 37th vice president from 1961 to 1963 under President John F. Kennedy, and was sworn in shortly after Kennedy’s assassination. […]
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The cause of King Charles’ sausage fingers (and toes) have been much debated. Could they due to dactylitis, and psoriasis-related? MyHSN thinks dactylitis is the most likely diagnosis. This is most commonly associated with psoriatic arthritis. But it can be associated with all of the spondyloarthropathies. These include: Ankylosing spondylitis Inflammatory bowel disease-related […]
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