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- Smart Appliances and Your Health
New high-tech devices can track everything from your sleep quality to diet, and report them to your doctor.
- How to Come Out
Not sure how to come out as LGBTQ or non-binary? Here are some tips for telling your friends, family or co-workers about your gender or sexual orientation.
- Finally Turning to a Biologic to Treat My Ankylosing Spondylitis
Chassity Stewart dealt with ankylosing spondylitis symptoms for over a decade before she found relief with a biologic. Here’s what she wants you to know.
- Things People With Prostate Cancer Wish You Knew
Prostate cancer happens when cells begin to grow and develop quicker than normally in your prostate. Find out what others want you to know about this condition.
- Why Kissing Is Good for You
Kissing can be more than just the start of a romantic interlude. Learn more about the benefits of locking lips.
- The Role of Augmented Reality in Medicine
You may have used augmented reality and not realized it. It merges virtual images with the real world, including real objects and real people, and it may find its way into the primary care clinic, operating room, emergency room, and dental office.
- What Can Health Apps Do for You?
How can apps on your phone or your wearable device help you improve your health? Learn how health apps can affect the future of health care.
- Wearable Health Devices: Is There One in Your Future?
Can your smartwatch help you improve your health? Find out how wearable devices are used to help people track their health.
- Sex and Intimacy Without Erections
If you have erectile dysfunction (ED), you and your partner can find exciting new ways to have fun and redefine your sex life. Here are expert tips to get started.
- How to Make New Friends
Learn more about adult friendships, how and where to make new friends, how to make online friends, what not to do, and when you know you’re friends.
- How to Keep Adult Friendships
Learn more about adult friendships, why they’re good for your health, how to nurture friendships, how to reach out to friends, and what to do if things go bad.
- How to End a Friendship
Learn how to tell if your friendship is unhealthy, signs that it’s time to move on, how to end it in a healthy way, and whether you can ever be friends again.
- How to Boost Your Reproductive Health
What can you do to improve your chances of conceiving a baby? Many couples deal with fertility issues that require a doctor’s help. Find out what you can change in your daily life to boost reproductive health before you head to the fertility clinic.
- What People With Ovarian Cancer Wish You Knew
Here’s what people with ovarian cancer want you to know about this condition.
- Managing the Side Effects of Depression Treatment
Depression treatment isn’t always easy. Find out about the side effects of antidepressants and depression treatment. Learn what you can do about them.
- What to Know About First-Time Sex
It’s time to demystify the concept of losing your virginity. Get the facts on everything you need to know about having sex for the first time.
- Living With Ovarian Cancer
Learning to live with ovarian cancer can feel overwhelming. But there are ways to ease the transition.
- Addiction: Choosing the Right Place for Treatment
There are ways to find quality treatment centers for alcohol or drug addiction. Here’s how to get started.
- Getting Sober: Finding Your Way
Getting sober isn't one-size-fits-all. People who've made the decision to quit drinking share what worked for them.
- Outgrowing a Friendship
Do you feel like your friendship has soured? Some strategies to remove yourself without hurting your friend.
- Life After Opioids
Coping skills and rebuilding relationships after recovering from opioid addiction.
- Life After Alcohol
Drinking alcohol is becoming less of a social norm and more of a lifestyle choice. Learn how others chose to get sober, ways to handle tricky social situations, and find fulfilling new habits.
- Talking to Friends and Family About Your Drinking
It can be scary to share your alcohol use disorder with family and friends. But it's an important step in your recovery. Here’s how to approach these conversations.
- Addiction: Know Your Options for Pain Management
If you’ve battled a drug or alcohol addiction, you may be nervous about taking medications that treat pain, such as opioids. Learn more about the options you might have and how to weigh them.
- Ovarian Cancer: Why a Diagnosis Often Comes Late
Here’s what two doctors who treat gynecologic cancers want you to know about spotting ovarian cancer as early as possible.
- How I Maintain Hope Despite Another Treatment Cycle
How do you manage life with NSCLC? How can you stay hopeful when you have the disease, even after prolonged treatment? Find out about one man’s journey with NSCLC and what he does to maintain hope.
- NSCLC: Exploring Treatment Challenges and the Potential in Clinical Trials
What’s the future of NSCLC treatment? Learn about challenges in treatment for NSCLC and why clinical trials may be a good treatment option.
- What People Don’t Understand About NSCLC
What don’t people know about NSCLC? Is it different from other lung cancers? Can nonsmokers get it? Find out common misconceptions and misunderstandings about NSCLC and what’s actually true.
- Aging With HIV
With new treatment and a better understanding of HIV, many people are living longer, healthier lives with the virus. Almost half of all HIV-positive people in the United States are older than 50. Find out why people are living longer and how to control complications as you age.
- The Mystery Behind Idiopathic Hypersomnia
Experts are still trying to figure out what causes this sleeping disorder. Learn clues about what might bring on IH.
- Tips for Adjusting to Life With Idiopathic Hypersomnia
Living with this condition can be a challenge, but it's not impossible. Here are strategies that can help.
- Ovarian Cancer: Complementary, Alternative Therapies
When used under a doctor’s supervision, complementary therapies can make it easier to get through treatment for ovarian cancer. Here’s what you should know.
- HIV: Getting Past the Fear
Knowing your HIV status is critical for staying healthy or getting help if you need it. Learn how you can put fear aside and take steps to protect both your health and that of those you love.
- Deciding to Stop Cancer Treatment
For some people, cancer treatment stops working. When the risks and side effects outweigh the possible benefits, people may choose to stop cancer treatment.
- Birth Control Options for Transgender and Nonbinary People
No matter where you are on the gender spectrum, you may be considering birth control, especially if there’s a chance you could get pregnant and you’re not trying to. Learn about the types of birth control available and what might be best for you.
- Penis Enlargement: Does It Work?
Are there any treatments that give you a bigger penis? Learn more about penis pumps, penis exercise, penis surgery, and other techniques that promise to enhance size.
- Living With HIV: Stress and Side Effects
An HIV diagnosis will change your life. It brings with it both physical symptoms and emotional stress. But there are things you can do to take charge of your condition, manage your symptoms, and thrive.
- What I Want You to Know About Living With HIV
Learn what people who are HIV-positive want you to know about the realities of living with the virus.
- HIV and Fitness
Having HIV doesn’t excuse you from exercise. If anything, it makes it more important. Here’s why.
- What People Don’t Understand About Crohn’s
Here are the major points one advocate thinks you should know about what it's like to live with Crohn's disease.
- How I Plan for Flare-Ups
One person's personal experience with the best way to manage their Crohn's flare-ups.
- When Someone You Love Has Borderline Personality Disorder
It isn’t always easy to be in a relationship with someone who has borderline personality disorder. Learn how to set boundaries, work toward a healthy relationship, and know when to walk away.
- Don't Let Diabetic Retinopathy Take Your Vision
Regular eye exams are crucial to look for diabetic retinopathy. One of the country's leading eye specialists explains why.
- Facing Diabetic Retinopathy Head-On
Get a glimpse at day-to-day life with this condition.
- Psoriatic Disease: Why Some Symptoms Get Missed
An advocate in the field, David Chandler explains why diagnosing the condition isn't always as straightforward as it may seem.
- Finding Success When Managing Psoriatic Disease
David Rosmarin, MD, gets candid about what questions he asks those that come to him for treatment, why, and how it helps inform your treatment.
- Saving Spoons With Psoriatic Disease
I sometimes think of my daily tasks in terms of spoons, says Vickie Wilkerson. "Every task uses up a spoon of energy. As my day goes on, I start running low on spoons."
- The Emotional Effects of OAB
If you have OAB, it can take an emotional toll on your life. Find out how to overcome challenges from depression and stress to trouble with your sex life.
- Multiple Myeloma and Your Relationships
WebMD explores how multiple myeloma affects your relationships with family, friends, and significant others.
- An Ostomy Pouch Set Them Free From UC
Two people living with an ostomy pouch for ulcerative colitis (UC) share candid stories about their struggles and successes.