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Photo: Farknot Architect (Shutterstock) Most dyslexic people are diagnosed in childhood, but the disorder can be overlooked and remain untreated into adulthood, which can lead to a different set of symptoms and struggles. There’s more to dyslexia than the common assumption that it simply makes people mirror or flip letters in their brains. Numerous other symptoms impact memory, attention, speech, and organization—and make it harder to diagnose as a result, since adults with these symptoms may never realize they could have dyslexia at all. The longer the disorder goes undiagnosed—and untreated—the longer adults with dyslexia have to struggle with symptoms for no reason. Here are a few signs you might have dyslexia and what you can do about it. What is dyslexia? Most people are probabl...

An athletic student was in for a shocking surprise when she found frecklelike spots suddenly appearing on her skin — and soon discovered she had blood cancer. Iowa resident Helaina Hillyard, 20, first started to notice the splotches after she came back from basketball practice one night in November 2021. However, within just a few short hours, the spots became larger and spread throughout her body, according to Jam Press. At first, Hillyard believed that her markings were bruises from playing hoops, but she decided to go to a nearby hospital — and found herself in the emergency room. After undergoing bloodwork, her blood levels were shown to be extremely low. Her doctor revealed to her that the specks on her skin were in fact, petechiae, which the Mayo Clinic d...

A 57-year-old Maryland man who survived for two months with a heart transplanted from a genetically altered pig carried signs of a virus that infects the animals, according to the surgeon who performed the first-of-its-kind procedure. The disclosure bolsters one of the most pressing objections to animal-to-human transplants, which is that widespread use of modified animal organs may facilitate the introduction of new pathogens into the human population. The presence of viral DNA in the patient may indicate an infection that contributed to his sudden deterioration and death on March 8, Dr. Bartley Griffith, a transplant surgeon at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, said during a presentation to the American Society of Transplantation. Dr. Griffith’s comments were first report...

The genetically modified pig whose heart was used in the first human transplant of its kind had a porcine virus that may have played the role in the death of the patient two months later, experts said. David Bennett Sr., 57, first seemed to be doing well the first few weeks after he received the history-making heart transplant on January 7 at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, but his condition suddenly took a dramatic turn for the worse, the MIT Technology Review reported Wednesday. “He looked really funky,” Dr. Bartley Griffith, Bennett’s transplant surgeon, said during an American Society of Transplantation webinar. “Something happened to him. He looked infected.” Despite doctors’ efforts to save the patient by treating him with an ...