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May 2, 2023 · Kennedy passed off the illness as a recurrence of his wartime malaria, but when he got back to Boston, an endocrinologist began treating him for Addison’s by implanting pellets of synthetic ...
Nov 22, 2019 · As a child, Kennedy nearly died from scarlet fever and also had serious digestive problems — most likely spastic colitis or irritable bowel syndrome, which plagued him for the rest of his life.
- Dr. Howard Markel
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Oct 6, 1992 · October 5, 1992 at 8:00 p.m. EDT. Physicians who treated John F. Kennedy, and examined his body after his death, have confirmed that the 35th president had Addison's disease, a chronic...
Nov 5, 2013 · Lee Harvey Oswald killed Kennedy before the president’s medical ailments could. But the evidence suggests that Kennedy’s physical condition contributed to his demise. On November 22, 1963...
Nov 17, 2002 · The first thorough examination of President John F. Kennedy's medical records, conducted by an independent presidential historian with a medical consultant, has found that Kennedy suffered...
Jul 8, 2020 · It is now believed that JFK suffered from a genetic autoimmune disease that emerged in early childhood and transformed into centralized intractable pain in adulthood.⁴ A major motivation in presenting this report is to call attention to the growing importance of autoimmune diseases in pain practice.
Dec 1, 2002 · The lifelong health problems of John F. Kennedy constitute one of the best-kept secrets of recent U.S. history—no surprise, because if the extent of those problems had been revealed while he...
