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Breast Cancer: A Forty-Seven Year Journey

An interesting example of how breast cancer treatment has changed over the...
Posted 6 months 6 days ago BY EUNICE PORTER
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Three Patients Without Hope

How difficult it may be to keep hope in our hearts and minds when...
Posted 6 months 1 week ago BY LYNN ASSIMACOPOULOS,
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Still Ticking

Our author has a day.
Posted 6 months 2 weeks ago BY LAUREN SHAPIRO
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Anxieties: Visitor Unexpected

That was the last time I went outside the apartment alone for two years.
Posted 7 months 10 hours ago BY MARILYN JUNE
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How to Health Your Way Sick

My determination to avoid weight gain devolved into paranoia.
Posted 7 months 1 week ago Divya Manikandan is
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Losing my toenails

Losing a Part of Me

Sometimes it's the small things...
Posted 7 months 3 weeks ago DAVID WILSON tells
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Endometriosis: Enough

“How long have you had such painful periods?” Suddenly he’s asking me to...
Posted 7 months 4 weeks ago BY JORDAN DEVERS
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Unexpected: My Rehab Stay

In rehab we were all damaged in some way or another. There was nothing to...
Posted 9 months 2 weeks ago BY BETH SUTTON
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The Real Dental Trauma

Three different dentists have reduced me to tears recently.
Posted 9 months 3 weeks ago Jeannette Sanderson
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Why Doctors Appointments Are Scary

So I sit in my chair—my wheelchair that is—and wait for yet another...
Posted 1 year 1 week ago BY BETH SUTTON
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Endoscopy in Nepal

When In Rome...Get an Endoscopy

Reports of quack doctors, botched surgeries, corrupt hospitals, and...
Posted 1 year 1 month ago BY HALEIGH POULIOT
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The Irony: Obsessing Over Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Obsessing over obsessing over obsessing...
Posted 1 year 2 months ago BY KATIE KENT
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