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- Healthier 2021: These Hacks Are Helping Bill Control His Eating
I love the taste of food, and that’s not going to miraculously change. So, I found a couple of tricks to help me resist the temptation to overeat.
- The Emotional Side of Treatment I Wasn’t Prepared For
You think you’ve prepared yourself, but a breast cancer diagnosis -- and life with the disease -- can bring emotions you aren’t ready for. One woman shares her experience.
- What My Patients Didn't Expect During Treatment: A Nurse's Perspective
A breast cancer nurse shares the common misconceptions her patients have about their disease, and treatment.
- Making Your Advanced Breast Cancer Treatment Work for You
After 19 years of living with advanced breast cancer, Terlisa Sheppard has some words of advice for others who have it.
- Healthier 2021: Laura's Lifting Weights!
Lifting weights at the gym was intimidating, but my health coach helped me set some goals and get motivated.
- Talking To Your Child About Central Precocious Puberty
Puberty is a tough time for kids – especially when it starts early because of CPP. Get tips to help talk them through it.
- Central Precocious Puberty and Your Child’s Social Life
CPP can make your child's life tough to navigate. Learn what you can do to help.
- The Emotional Impact of Breast Cancer
Breast cancer can bring on many emotions in people. From diagnosis to treatments, the journey may leave you feeling things you hadn't expected.
- Healthier 2021: Mark Gives Yoga Another Try
If you've been following my fitness journey, you know about my struggles with flexibility and my desire to overcome them. So, I’m giving yoga another shot.
- What People Don’t Understand About Narcolepsy
A college student and competitive weightlifter with narcolepsy shares the most frustrating misconceptions she hears.
- How to Tell Friends, Family You Have Breast Cancer
Breaking the news of a breast cancer diagnosis can be tough. Get ideas about how to start the conversation with your family and friends.
- Getting Physical to Ease Your Ankylosing Spondylitis
Physical therapist Maura Iversen shares how exercise and other practices can ease the pain and stiffness that come with ankylosing spondylitis.
- The Invisibility of Ankylosing Spondylitis
Teacher Ali Cornish details what life is like living with a disease no one else can see.
- My Life With Ulcerative Colitis
An amateur athlete makes peace with his ulcerative colitis diagnosis and refuses to let his condition undermine his goals.
- Healthier 2021: Bill Is Accepting That His Fitness Is No Longer What It Was
Now that I am recovering from COVID, I really need to base my workouts on where I am TODAY-- not on the workouts I used to be able to do.
- Marijuana and COPD
Studies show marijuana can open up your airways. But can inhaling cannabis help or hurt a smoking-related lung condition like COPD?
- CBD Oil and Lung Disease
CBD products abound, in all kinds of forms. Despite marketing claims, there’s no proof they’ll help lung disease. Learn the facts on CBD and where research stands.
- Can a Wellness App Help People With Heart Failure?
Mobile apps can make it easier to balance everything you need to manage heart failure.
- Learn From Others to Help Manage Your Heart Failure
By tapping more support, people with heart failure can learn how to feel their best and help motivate each other.
- Can I Drink Alcohol While Taking Schizophrenia Medications?
If you have schizophrenia, you may wonder if it’s OK to drink alcohol when taking medications to manage your condition. For most people, that’s not a good idea.
- Can a Wellness App Help People With Lung Cancer?
If you’ve been diagnosed with lung cancer, it’s important to think about steps you can take to maintain a healthy lifestyle so you can live well for as long as possible. Mobile apps can help.
- Ways to Maximize Your Lifespan With Heart Failure
With better medication and care, doctors are helping people with heart failure improve the quality and length of their lives.
- Talking to Your Kids About ADPKD
What you need to know when you talk to your children and you have ADPKD. Find out what to say and how to have those conversations.
- Wellness Apps for Schizophrenia
Mobile apps may help someone with schizophrenia stick to a medication schedule; keep tabs on mood, sleep, and day-to-day functioning; and even manage symptoms such as hallucinations.
- Schizophrenia and Life Expectancy
People with schizophrenia tend to have lower life expectancy than those who don’t have the disease. Schizophrenia itself isn’t life-threatening. But people who have it are more likely to have other health conditions that raise their chances of death.
- Support Animals for Schizophrenia
Animals are on the new frontier of therapy to help people with severe mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia, manage their symptoms.
- Is Kombucha Good for Schizophrenia?
Kombucha is a fermented drink with bold health claims. So, is kombucha really good for people with schizophrenia?
- Healthier 2021: Laura's Staying Hydrated
In my journey to getting healthier in 2021, I realized that I don’t drink nearly enough water every day. But, I found a trick to keep myself hydrated.
- The Best Videos, Blogs, and Books on Schizophrenia
These resources can help you navigate your symptoms and challenges and find inspiration, hope, and knowledge that you can and will get better.
- How Is Birth Control Different From an Abortion?
How is birth control different from an abortion? What is the process like? What are the effects on your body? Learn the differences between birth control and an abortion.
- What It’s Like to Live With Heart Failure
Ten years ago, James Young II turned his heart failure into an opportunity. Before could figure out why he was eating so badly, he had to figure out what was eating him.
- How My Life’s Changed Since a Heart Failure Diagnosis
Jang Jaswal had heart failure, kidney failure, and a month to live. Today, he walks 4 miles a day. Here’s the story of who he was and how he treats his body now.
- Doctor: Know This About Emergency Contraception
How do you get emergency contraception? Which type is best? What are the effects on your body? Get the answers straight from a doctor.
- How Marijuana Affects Heart Failure
If you have heart failure and you smoke or eat marijuana, learn more about how the drug might affect your condition.
- How Alcohol Affects Heart Failure
If you have heart failure and drink beer, wine, or liquor, here’s what to know about how it might affect your condition.
- Healthier 2021: Mark's Using His Scale for Motivation
In the past I wasn’t weighing myself, so my only goals were to generally look and feel better. But now, I’m setting specific weight goals.
- Managing Schizophrenia With Family and Work
There’s no one way to live with schizophrenia. The symptoms and challenges are different for each person with the illness. But your life is about more than your diagnosis. Having a support system, family or other loved ones, and a fulfilling job can allow you to live with schizophrenia on your own terms and achieve your personal recovery goals.
- Life Expectancy With COPD
There’s no one-size-fits-all answer when it comes to predicting someone’s life span with COPD. A lot depends on your age, health, lifestyle, and how severe the disease was when you were diagnosed, plus the steps you've taken to lessen the damage afterward.
- Can I Drink Alcohol If I Have COPD?
If you’re living with COPD, you may have already made some lifestyle changes to stay healthy and make it less likely that your condition will get worse, which is great. And you might wonder if alcohol could prevent, improve, or make COPD worse. Here’s what the science says about drinking alcohol when you have COPD.
- Lung Disease and Masks: Myths and Facts
If you have a lung disease like asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), it’s important to take steps to protect yourself from COVID-19 and other viruses. But you might be wondering if wearing a face mask to lower your risk of illness will make it harder to breathe, or even make your lung disease worse.
- Finding Your UC Community
When you have ulcerative colitis (UC), it can help to find people who understand what you’re going through. Learn why you should find your UC support community and how to make it happen.
- Getting Ghosted After a UC Diagnosis
Did a friend or potential romantic partner stop taking to you after your ulcerative colitis diagnosis? Learn why it happens and what you can do about it.
- Using a Copper IUD for Emergency Contraception
Can you get a copper IUD put in as emergency contraception? How does it work? What are the pros and cons?
- IUD Cramps
IUDs often cause cramps. Learn what can you do about them, how long they might last, how to feel better, and what to do if they don’t go away.
- Signs Your IUD Is Out of Place
What happens if you think your IUD is out of place? What are the signs? How do you check? Should you call the doctor? Learn what to look for and what to do if you think your IUD is out of place.
- Wellness Apps You Can Use to Track Birth Control
How do birth control apps work? Can I use a cycle tracking app for birth control? How do I find a reliable fertility app? Learn about apps for cycle tracking, fertility, family planning, and birth control.
- What Happens When You Stop Ulcerative Colitis Meds?
Medicines can help keep inflammation in check, but you may not like taking them. Learn when you can quit your meds and what happens when you do.
- Know This About Ulcerative Colitis, a Doctor Says
From treatment to remission, symptoms to support, here’s what a doctor who treats it every day wants you to know about ulcerative colitis.
- Finding Your COPD Community
COPD not only makes you feel breathless, it can also make you feel isolated, depressed, and stressed. When you connect with a community of other people who have COPD, you’ll get support, management tips, and advice on how to improve your symptoms and feel better. Learn how to find a COPD community online to get help.
- When Lung Disease Interrupts Your Exercise Routine
Chronic lung disease can make you feel breathless and sap your muscle tone. You may be afraid to exercise or do the activities you once enjoyed. Exercise is not only safe with lung disease, it improves your breathing, strength, and self-esteem. Find out how to get back into exercise if your lung disease has sidelined you recently.