BACKGROUND Anemia is a disease that can co-exist with depression, other mental disorders, or somatic diseases. Anemia can imitate symptoms of depression, while depression symptoms can mask concurring symptoms of anemia. CASE PRESENTATION I am presenting a case of a 48-year-old woman with Addison-Biermer anemia, with co-existing mood disorders. The clinical analysis of the presented patient's ...

One of the most curious objections to the medical usage of the modern and scientific-sounding term "Hansen's disease" is that "Dr. Hansen did not have the disease". But the fact that neither Dr. Parkinson nor Dr. Bright were victims of "their" diseases is conveniently ignored. As it is ignored that Dr. Recklinghausen never had skin tumors and that no malignant mammary "Paget's disease" ever dev...