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Fighting the Fall BluesFeatures

Fighting the Fall Blues

Seasonal affective disorder treatment options

October 22, 2012·6 min read
"The Great Masquerader" - Gallbladder CancerFeatures

"The Great Masquerader" - Gallbladder Cancer

Gallbladder cancer and gallstones linked

October 18, 2012·6 min read
Is This Flu, or Just a Cold?Features

Is This Flu, or Just a Cold?

How to tell the difference between a flu or cold

October 16, 2012·5 min read
Sweeter Dreams with Back ArthritisFeatures

Sweeter Dreams with Back Arthritis

Ankylosing spondylitis patients can improve sleep quality

October 12, 2012·3 min read
Happy Feet with DiabetesFeatures

Happy Feet with Diabetes

Diabetic foot care and ulcer prevention

October 12, 2012·4 min read
Lung Cancer Has a New EnemyFeatures

Lung Cancer Has a New Enemy

Lung cancer patients may benefit from drugs that target newly discovered gene mutations

October 12, 2012·6 min read
Talking to Your Doctor About DepressionFeatures

Talking to Your Doctor About Depression

Dr Larry Culpepper discusses major depression and its symptoms and treatment

October 4, 2012·13 min read
Coping with PancreatitisFeatures

Coping with Pancreatitis

Pancreatitis treatments and complications

October 3, 2012·6 min read
What to Ask Before Joint Replacement SurgeryFeatures

What to Ask Before Joint Replacement Surgery

Osteoarthritic joint replacement questions for your surgeon

October 3, 2012·4 min read
Understanding Borderline Personality   Features

Understanding Borderline Personality

Borderline personality disorder can look like other disorders

October 2, 2012·4 min read
Better Booty Bumping with ArthritisFeatures

Better Booty Bumping with Arthritis

Arthritis patients need to exercise to improve their sex lives

September 28, 2012·4 min read
Medications for Mental Illness: a Risk Factor for Obesity?Features

Medications for Mental Illness: a Risk Factor for Obesity?

Overeating may be related to drugs changing hunger hormone signals

September 28, 2012·8 min read
Deciphering Your Diet and Acid RefluxFeatures

Deciphering Your Diet and Acid Reflux

How what you eat and how you eat affect acid reflux

September 26, 2012·5 min read
Talking to Kids About Cancer Features

Talking to Kids About Cancer

Helping kids and families understand and cope with cancer

September 26, 2012·7 min read
An Intimate CancerFeatures

An Intimate Cancer

Vulvar cancer has symptoms women should not ignore

September 19, 2012·5 min read
Prostate Cancer – Separating Diagnosis From TreatmentFeatures

Prostate Cancer – Separating Diagnosis From Treatment

Making progress against over treating prostate cancer

September 17, 2012·9 min read
Self-Care for RAFeatures

Self-Care for RA

Rheumatoid arthritis patients play a key role in treatment

September 11, 2012·7 min read
Know Your risk: Hepatitis C and HIVFeatures

Know Your risk: Hepatitis C and HIV

HIV patients in the middle age at high risk for hepatitis C

September 10, 2012·7 min read
What You Probably Don’t Know About Uterine Cancer Features

What You Probably Don’t Know About Uterine Cancer

MD Anderson oncologist talks about endometrial cancer

September 10, 2012·6 min read
Do Vaccine Exemptions Make Sense?Features

Do Vaccine Exemptions Make Sense?

Climbing school vaccination exemptions are putting more kids at risk for disease

September 7, 2012·9 min read
Are You Fat?Features

Are You Fat?

Obesity in the United States has more than doubled in just twenty years

August 29, 2012·7 min read
Does Neurotherapy Really Work?Features

Does Neurotherapy Really Work?

Post traumatic stress disorder and brain injury patients may benefit

August 29, 2012·5 min read
Frontiers in Lung Cancer Features

Frontiers in Lung Cancer

Extending the horizons of lung cancer treatment

August 29, 2012·5 min read
Working Out Your DiabetesFeatures

Working Out Your Diabetes

Diabetes and exercise explained

August 27, 2012·6 min read