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July 21st 2010 / Text Story
Reece baffles doctors with his recurring skin sores, internal bleeding, asthma and fevers up to 106 degrees.
July 15th 2010 / Text Story
The doctors call her their ‘mystery girl' as they can’t seem to find out what is wrong with her, says the mother of 20 month old Katey.
June 28th 2010 / Text Story
21 year old Lizzie suffers from a rare, undiagnosed medical condition which has left her with a skeletal frame even though she eats up to 60 times a day.
June 24th 2010 / Text Story
Ethan has a series of problems, which have no known diagnosis and have stumped his doctors
May 25th 2010 / Text Story
Abbi, 19 months old loses battle with same neurological condition that claimed sister
May 18th 2010 / Text Story
Kate is medically fragile but they can't put a name or a reason to it. There is a new program to help children like Kate, those with an undiagnosed disease.
May 13th 2010 / Video Clip
Jocelyn started with a fever a week before her first birthday now she is an 8 year old who is bed bound.
May 4th 2010 / Video Clip
Mackenzee is 21 months old who has a condition that has baffled doctors.
April 28th 2010 / Text Story
2 1/2 year old Ellie has an illness that no one can explain. Her random fevers and inability to walk, talk, hold her head straight or sit up for any length of time have ultimately baffled them all,
April 18th 2010 / Text Story
Roman Allen looks like a happy, 16-month-old child, but he's suffering with many medical conditions, with no diagnosis.
April 9th 2010 / Text Story
Kain has baffled doctors ever since he was born at 31 weeks weighing just 3 lbs 3oz. At age 10 he is still the size of a toddler.
April 7th 2010 / Text Story
Fiona suddenly stopped breathing after sporadic spells of flu-like symptoms in the weeks before. From there, she has declined, she stopped walking, talking, sitting and she's not holding her head up. But every test (doctors) have done has been normal.
April 4th 2010 / Text Story
12-year Zachary grew from a cuddly baby into an active toddler and by three, a rambunctious kindergartener riding a bicycle, playing ball and romping with other children, has regressed to the point where he now requires round-the-clock care, unable to help himself.
April 3rd 2010 / Text Story
Savannah West looks like a typical happy baby though she battles daily against an unknown illness which is having a drastic impact on her life. At seventeen months old she suffers from frequent seizures, struggles to see and her tiny muscles are so weak that she is unable to even sit up unaided.
March 18th 2010 / Text Story
The diagnosis of Levi was a syndrome so rare it is simply referred to as the unknown syndrome. Levi was born mentally handicapped as well as a cleft pallet ears that require hearing aids and the syndrome also affects the growth and maturation process that limits his mobility and flexibility.
March 9th 2010 / Text Story
At age 2, Eli Jenkins does not talk, crawl or walk. He has trouble swallowing and cannot feed himself. He takes medication to control seizures. Paige, now 4½-years old, was born healthy and developed normally until the age of 10 months, when she came down with a fever and suffered a seizure.
March 3rd 2010 / Text Story
Eli was born with a cleft lip, undescended testes, two hernias and heart problems. 12 months later he remains undiagnosed.
October 22nd 2009 / Text Story
Jack was born on June 6, 2008, a healthy little boy, but at three-months-old he stopped putting on weight and was constantly vomiting.
October 14th 2009 / Text Story
Top doctors are trying to diagnose the condition that has left the courageous two-year-old, James Fewster-Smith, facing a number of operations that could shape his life.
October 9th 2009 / Text Story
Three year old Maddox has an undiagnosed syndrome that has not allowed "normal" growth along with his medical condition of Scoliosis, curvature of the spine.
October 8th 2009 / Text Story
The 17-month-old Ruby is suffering from an undiagnosed gastric disorder, which in spite of repeated invasive testing, remains a mystery.
October 6th 2009 / Text Story
19 year old Jessie suffers from an undiagnosed illness that affects her speech and motor skills and is making her eyes cross.
August 20th 2009 / Text Story
Sierra recently has been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder stemming from an undiagnosed illness that has caused her to be hospitalized several times a year since she was an infant.
 
 

News Coverage

 

 
  August 20th 2010 / Text Story
Update on Christian Susko
 

 

     
  August 10th 2010 / Text Story
Update on Paige Bourhill
 
 

 

 
     
  July 21st 2010 / Text Story
Three-year-old Christian Susko has been in a coma for 40 days, but doctors have been trying to untangle his medical mystery for two years
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April 6th 2010 / Text Story
Colin Raye's granddaughter passes away. Haley suffered from a neurological disorder which had not been correctly diagnosed during her short life.
 
 
     
  February 12th 2010 / Text Story
Nine-year-old Tiffany Searle from American Fork has a disease that has baffled doctors for years. Although they still have no official diagnosis, they are quite certain Tiffany has a short time to live.
 

 

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  July 8th 2009 / Text Story
But at 10 months, Paige came down with her very first cold, had a seizure, and was never the same.
 
     
  January 1st 2009 / Text Story
Lorna was born full-term, bot only weighed four pounds thirteen ounces. Right away her mom noticed differences, unique ears that fold over, a small head, and a hole in her heart at about four months. Then gradual developmental problems, delays in speech and physical development.
 

 

     
 
October 23rd 2005 / Text Story
12 year old Brooke is still the size of an infant, the doctors have never seen another like her. They have labeled her with an unknown syndrome.
 
            

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