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Season 2

9 Episodes

2006

E01

A Puff of Smoke

1/9/2006·60m

A baby is irritable, has trouble nursing and stops gaining weight. When the infant begins suffering repeated seizures and eventually begins sustaining rapid-onset cerebral ischemia, they are diagnosed with moyamoya disease, and must be treated before they suffer lethal brain damage from the repeated ischemic incidents. A man initially diagnosed with hypoglycemia finds out he's got a tumor in his lung. A woman battling coughs, hives, and muscle weakness, was revealed to have an elevated eosinophil count.

E02

An Unquenchable Thirst

1/16/2006·60m

A baby drinks excessively, projectile vomits and stops growing. A professional baseball player's wife struggles to get pregnant due to a brain tumor. An old man is robbed of his eyesight.

E03

Lethal Diet

1/23/2006·60m

Parents deal with a son with sinus infections and unsteady feet; a woman gains weight and has oily skin, hair loss, body cramps and irritable bowel syndrome. A reverend has trouble sleeping.

E04

Falling Through the Cracks

3/6/2006·60m

A man has suffered from vertigo and ear infections since childhood. A 16-year-old girl has headaches and neck twitching, that led to preeclampsia. A girl has a serious heart condition and stops growing and gaining weight.

E05

Eaten Alive

3/27/2006·60m

A baby's hair appears brittle, and she is slow in developing after a case of whooping cough. Following a tube-tie procedure, Jackie contracted a flesh-eating disease. A boy develops nosebleeds, a sign of something much more terrifying.

E06

The Man Who Never Sweats

4/3/2006·60m

A baby shows signs of a genetic disorder. A college graduate developed bloating, decreased sex drive, and yellowing of the eyes. Since childhood, Scott has battled an array of symptoms—severe joint pain, strange rashes, and an inability to sweat. Could his symptoms be related to his kidneys?

E07

Fatal Secret

4/10/2006·60m

Roman was a baby when his parents noticed his head always tilting to one side and his eyes rolling back into his head when he looked up. Could the cause be just one condition? Sharon was an active varsity diver but after a car accident, she developed an unquenchable thirst that would soon take over her life. Peggy lived a healthy and active lifestyle, until one day when the mother of two experienced coughing, joint pain, and swelling.

E08

The Stabbing Sensation

6/5/2006·60m

Nicky was a healthy five-year-old boy until terrifying symptoms landed him in the hospital, fighting for his life. Kristine was a super mom until crippling abdominal pains would change her life forever. Jackie was active until mysterious pains wracked her entire body, eventually becoming so bad that she had to drop out of school.

E09

The Man With Rocks in His Chest

6/12/2006·60m

A baby boy suffers from the same symptoms that killed off male offspring on his mother's side of the family, Could doctors figure out what it is before it's too late? A man in his late thirties experiences a constant, painful burning sensation in his chest, making breathing difficult, but an initial trip to the ER reveals nothing. A woman lives with joint pain, redness in her eyes, and a blood test revealed an elevated anti-nuclear antibody.

Season 6

13 Episodes

2008

E01

The Woman With the Giant Lump

3/24/2008·60m

A very active 41-year-old bodybuilder realizes that a strange lump has grown in her jaw while training for a competition; a boy has infrequent bowel movements.

E02

The Woman Who Couldn't Stop Rocking

12/1/2008·60m

A woman starts failing after a family vacation; another woman, who has suffered from stomach pains for years, has problems with swelling during menstruation.

E03

The Baby Who Wouldn't Stop Crying

12/8/2008·60m

A baby develops a mysterious set of symptoms, including a bulging forehead and eye color changes. A teen suffers severe hand pain during swim practice.

E04

The Girl Who Couldn't Wake Up

12/15/2008·60m

A young woman experiences bizarre episodes where they sleep for almost the entire day after a car accident causes them to develop Kleine-Levin syndrome. An 11-year-old suffers a terrible headache.

E05

The Girl Who Couldn't Move

3/2/2009·60m

A young student begins to suffer from paralyzing pain in his back. A couple adopts a girl and they find a huge and swollen lump on her shoulder. Initially suspected to be severe neurofibromatosis, the efforts of doctors to relieve the child's condition by conducting an amputation of the affected arm only makes things worse when bone begins overrunning the site of the amputation, revealing her condition to be the lethal and progressive disease fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva.

E06

The Boy Who Kept Swelling

3/9/2009·60m

An 18-month-old baby suddenly starts screaming one afternoon in the pool, and begins exhibiting extremely painful symptoms when exposed to sunlight, with porphyria later found to be the culprit. A mother of two children begins to suffer a series of very debilitating headaches.

E07

The Boy Who Stopped Walking

3/16/2009·60m

Rachele Lacount and Mike West are delighted that their baby has started to walk and talk, but suddenly they realize that something is wrong with his right eye. Since middle school, Cherryl Marshall struggled with taming her obscene body odor.

E08

The Boy Who Bit Himself

3/23/2009·60m

Parents notice their 7-month-old son has troubling physical impairments, then begins violently harming himself, culminating in a horrifying incident where the child bites off his own lower lip; he is later diagnosed with the genetic condition Lesch-Nyhan syndrome. A woman traveling the world starts experiencing unusual back pain and tingling in her feet that rapidly develops into a spreading paralysis; following the successful use of plasmapheresis, the cause of the dangerous condition is identified as Devic's disease, an inflammation of the spinal cord.

E09

The Boy Who Could Break

3/30/2009·60m

Bob was an outstanding middle school teacher who never got sick a day in his life until he was stuck by night sweats, headaches, light sensitivity, and blindness in his left eye. Diane and Howard have a baby boy with a mystery illness. Eventually, another doctor sees the newborn and diagnoses a rare and fatal disease, seen less than 100 times.

E10

The Black and Blue Baby

4/6/2009·60m

Holly is overjoyed at the birth of her second baby, Hannah Hannum, but soon realizes that she has Down syndrome; Carly and Nathan have just gotten married, when Carly falls extremely ill with strong nausea.

E11

The Baby Who Couldn't Stop Eating

4/13/2009·60m

Doctors try to understand diseases that are often misdiagnosed, including a case of a newborn who has a cleft in the chest, and is later diagnosed with Marfan syndrome after they begin exhibiting the telltale signs of the condition as they grow older, and another who shows very worrying symptoms.

E12

The Girl Who Fell Apart

4/20/2009·60m

Marylyn and Randall House become alarmed when their young daughter's motor skills begin to deteriorate; Amanda Gray experiences extreme fatigue after the birth of her second daughter.

E13

The Girl Who Fell to Pieces

4/27/2009·60m

After passing out during a soccer game, Allie Isaacson suffers excruciating pain in her legs; Molly Bigford experiences a miscarriage with her first pregnancy and high blood pressure with her second.

Season 1

8 Episodes

2005

E01

Grasping for Straws

3/7/2005·60m

Doctors are baffled by a woman's mysterious respiratory problem. Featuring Cushing's syndrome, gout, carcinoid cancer.

E02

Like Mother, Like Son

10/16/2005·60m

A child with celiac disease is intolerant of gluten; a woman has her left frontal lobe removed to stop seizures; another woman suffers from fatigue and mood swings. Featuring celiac disease, mitral valve prolapse (MVP), epilepsy.

E03

Not A Normal Newborn

10/21/2005·60m

A child with Hurler's disease undergoes a stem-cell transplant procedure; a woman is diagnosed with myasthenia gravis; A father has seizures and fainting spells due to a heart arrhythmia. Featuring Hurler syndrome, myasthenia gravis, cardiac arrhythmia.

E04

Isaac's Nightmare

10/28/2005·60m

A young boy's body is not producing antibodies to fight infections; a cancerous tumor must be removed; a woman loses the ability to walk. Featuring common variable immunodeficiency (CVID), gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST), reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD).

E05

Why Is Emily Screaming?

11/4/2005·60m

A baby who cries and holds her cheek; a woman who gained 100 pounds in three months and developed severe acne; and an avid athlete struggling to catch his breath. Featuring trigeminal neuralgia, polycystic ovary syndrome and alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency.

E06

Blood & Fire

11/11/2005·60m

A 12-year-old girl experiences abdominal pains and severe headaches until she is diagnosed with a retroflexed odontoid and Chiari One malformation; a firefighter and paramedic is diagnosed with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).

E07

Desperate for a Cure

11/28/2005·60m

A 5-year-old has a persistent fever and stomachache. A man crippled with a neck tilt. A woman falls ill after traveling abroad. Featuring Crohn's disease, cervical dystonia, brucellosis.

E08

Blood Brothers

12/5/2005·60m

Two brothers suffer the same heart problem. Joanne suffers from joint pain, mouth ulcers, genital sores, skin lesions, and vision problems. Featuring Barth Syndrome, Behcet's Disease

Season 9

10 Episodes

2009

E01

The Woman Whose Flesh Was Eaten Alive

6/7/2009·60m

June has a biopsy and, when a mark appears on the site, she has surgery, leaving her with a growing open wound. Her doctor diagnoses her with a flesh eating virus. Can June's life be saved?

E02

The Boy Who Only Hopped

6/14/2009·60m

After moving houses, and months of strange behavior, 12-year-old Sammy stops walking and only hops; the doctors are the only hope to discover the cause of his bizarre symptoms. He is eventually diagnosed with PANDAS, a condition in which antibodies mistake his brain for Streptococcus bacteria.

E03

The Man With Hundreds of Lumps

6/21/2009·60m

Jessica is stricken with fevers and crippling migraines, and after Jake starts a military training program he finds hundreds of painful, fatty lumps appearing on his body.

E04

The Baby Who Bruised Easily

8/9/2009·60m

A baby continuously gets bruises and spots all over her body, and even the smallest cuts cause her to lose shocking amounts of blood. Genetic tests reveal that the infant has the rare coagulopathy Glanzmann's thrombasthenia, a recessive genetic condition which prevents platelets from forming blood clots.

E05

The Girl With No Bowel

8/16/2009·60m

After suffering a series of debilitating incidents believed to be the result of Crohn's disease, Karen, an albino, has to have most of her colon removed. Several decades later, at the age of 38, she receives a phone call from someone who suggests she is suffering from a rare and fatal disease, Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome, which is also the cause of her albinism.

E06

The Man Covered in Boils

8/23/2009·60m

Lonnie's dreams of playing in the NFL are destroyed when boils develop on his head as a symptom of the painful skin condition hidradenitis suppurativa. Theresa suffers sight loss during her pregnancy; physicians struggle to find a diagnosis.

E07

The Toddler That Went Through Puberty

8/30/2009·60m

A three-year-old's unexplained vaginal bleeding sends her parents searching for answers to help their baby girl. Also, a student plagued by cramps is unable to hold her food down.

E08

The Toddler That Stopped Walking

9/6/2009·60m

A mother rushes her toddler to hospital when she loses the ability to walk or stand. Plus, a runner tries to sleep off a numbness in his foot, but finds the sensation spreading.

E09

The Woman With Unusual DNA

9/20/2009·60m

When Jeanne fails to hit puberty, doctors discover that something truly bizarre is the cause; analysis of her DNA finds that she is genetically male, possessing Y chromosomes, but due to the rare genetic disorder Swyer syndrome, she appears outwardly female. Mary is stricken with a collapsed lung and breathing problems.

E10

The Boy With the 150lb Leg

10/4/2009·60m

By the time Adrian is in high school his right leg weighs 150 lb (68 kg) and limits his mobility. Kathy is struggling to treat a rash and is experiencing weight loss. Can doctors help?