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- Mattiedna Johnson’s Historic Work On Antibiotics
Mattiedna Johnson was a Black American nurse who may have played a key role in the search for a scarlet fever cure.
- Top Health Challenges for Aging Asian Americans
Older Asian Americans face a number of health disparities. Here are the biggest health concerns for aging Asian Americans.
- How Can Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Help With Weight Management?
In the webinar “How Can CBT Help With Weight Management,” Rachel Goldman, PhD, shared some tools that can help you work toward a healthier weight.
- Baby Hair Care: Tips for Natural Hair, From Doctors
How to take care of your baby’s natural hair: Find out what a dermatologist and a doctor say.
- Why Are Uterine Fibroids Particularly Common in Black Women?
Uterine fibroids are growths in the uterus that are almost never cancer but can be painful. They’re especially common in Black women, and researchers are studying why that is.
- Caring for a Loved One Losing Their Sight
Caring for her dad with GA taught Linda Chernek Moore some lessons. Read her advice for caregivers and learn what to watch for.
- An Expert’s Perspective: Geographic Atrophy
As a retina specialist and ophthalmologist, one expert gives their perspective on geographic atrophy and how to manage it. Get the facts about this advanced form of dry age-related macular degeneration.
- My Life With Geographic Atrophy
Margret Krakauer has had vision issues most of her life. Now, diagnosed with geographic atrophy, she's making some changes and looking toward the future.
- Caring for Your Mental, Social, and Emotional Well-being With Geographic Atrophy
A low-vision ophthalmologist shares how she helps people with this condition live their best lives.
- Coming to Terms With AMD Vision Loss
One woman describes her journey to acceptance of vision loss due to wet macular degeneration.
- Learning to Live With AMD: A Caregiver’s Story
A caregiver discusses her father’s vision loss and how he learned to live with the challenges of AMD.
- Can Laws Be Medicines?
How the field of legal epidemiology uses rigorous scientific methods to investigate the link between policy and public health.
- How to Keep Your Cat Physically and Mentally Active
Learn about keeping your cat active, including physical activity and mental health.
- Training Options for Dogs and Cats
Learn about the choices for training your pet, including group classes, one-on-one training, agility lessons, training for behavior problems, and cat training options.
- How Exposure to Violence Worsens Health
Exposure to violence, whether from police or elsewhere in the community, can cause health effects that last a lifetime.
- Treating MS Pain With Virtual Reality
Clinical neurologist Leigh Charvet explains how VR can play a role in managing chronic pain due to multiple sclerosis.
- MS Questionnaire Helps Measure Symptoms and Spot Early Disease Changes
Until recently, there wasn't a standard way to gather a multiple sclerosis patient's medical history. Now, a simple questionnaire can provide your doctors with invaluable information.
- How Tech Has Changed My Life With Multiple Sclerosis
Advances in assistive technology mean people with multiple sclerosis can live full, independent lives. Michael Ogg shares what helps him day to day.
- What Excites Me in MS Research
There are many multiple sclerosis therapies in development right now. Bruce Bebo, PhD, shares what’s coming down the pipeline.
- Move Forward With Multiple Sclerosis
Relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis can be challenging to live with, but it’s not impossible. Patsy Wheeler shares her tips and tricks.
- How to Focus on Your Mental Health With Relapsing-Remitting MS
Just like with any chronic illness, it isn't uncommon to experience depression and anxiety with RRMS. But that doesn't mean these conditions should be ignored. Here are some self-care tips.
- On the Horizon: The Future of MS Treatments
Benjamin Segal of the Neuroscience Research Institute at Ohio State University's Wexner Medical Center dives into the options for treating multiple sclerosis, and how much further they can go.
- Managing Your Emotions When Cancer Treatment Is Done
The emotional stress that can follow breast cancer is very real. Learn more about what you can do about it.
- The Future of Treatment for Geographic Atrophy
Scientists are closer than ever to new therapies for geographic atrophy, an advanced form of the eye disease called dry age-related macular degeneration.
- A Young Neurologist Mentors Black Women, Fights Disparities
Eseosa Ighodaro, MD, PhD, is a neurologist focusing on stroke, health disparities, and mentoring the next generation of doctors.
- Including More People of Color in Heart Failure Research
The clinical trials used to develop new heart failure treatments aren't diverse enough. What researchers, the government, and you can do to make these studies more inclusive.
- Heart Failure Risk: Where You Live, What You Look Like, and Where You Come From
Heart failure hits Black and Hispanic communities hardest. Here’s why -- and the changes that can help.
- Equal Access to Heart Failure Treatment for All
Treatments for heart failure can ease your symptoms and help you live longer. But Black and Hispanic people with the disease may not have equal access.
- Advocates Decry ‘Environmental Apartheid’ in Port Cities
Shipping industries boomed during the pandemic. Without the protection of a gutted Environmental Protection Agency, communities next door are paying the price.
- Medical Interpreters Build Bridges, Save Lives
Federal law guarantees the right to language interpreters in medical care. In the U.S., where 1 in 5 people speak a language other than English at home, that’s a lot of translation.
- Tips to Fit Your Sleep Style
Are you a night owl or an early bird? Or do you burn the candle at both ends? See what your sleep style is and what you can do to sleep better.
- Why Don’t We Have a Cure for Alzheimer’s?
After 30 years of intensive research, science is nowhere near a cure for Alzheimer’s disease — an illness that affects more than 55 million people worldwide. Are we doing something wrong?
- Navigating the Financial Aspects of CAR T-Cell Therapy
What CAR T-cell therapy expenses include and how you can manage them.
- Ways to Make Parenting More Accessible
Parenting a baby when you have a physical disability can make some tasks tricker. This is what parents say helps.
- Crowdfunding Your Health Care Costs? What to Know
Thinking of starting or contributing to a health care crowdfunding campaign? Keep these pointers in mind.
- Caregiving for a Loved One With C3 Glomerulopathy
What does it look like to care for someone with C3 glomerulopathy? Learn about challenges of the condition, what to expect, and how to care for yourself, too.
- How Age, Gender, Weight, and More Can Affect Sleep
Your age, gender, weight and more may influence the quality of your sleep. Learn more about the impact of social and economic factors.
- Tips for Better Sleep from People Who’ve Struggled With Insomnia
What helps when you can't sleep? Here's what our survey found worked best to help people get some shut-eye.
- What’s Keeping America Up at Night?
Why do so many of us struggle to get enough good-quality sleep? A new WebMD study looks at America’s sleep habits.
- Build Your Breast Cancer Community
Surrounding yourself with the right people is crucial to making it through this tough time.
- Getting Support During Advanced Breast Cancer
Ideas for getting the support and TLC that you need.
- Advanced Breast Cancer and Your Job
Tips on how to handle your work life after an advanced breast cancer diagnosis.
- Finding Success With Moderate to Severe Atopic Dermatitis
Karen Chen shares the story of her childhood struggles with eczema to her life now as a thriving medical engineering student.
- My Life With Moderate to Severe Atopic Dermatitis
Ashley Ann Lora has dealt with eczema her entire life. Here, she shares her healing journey towards acceptance and the treatments that made a difference.
- Caring for A Child With Moderate to Severe Atopic Dermatitis
Cassie Larkin's son was diagnosed with eczema mere weeks after his birth. Here, she shares the journey to getting him the care he needed.
- Should We Be Testing Everyone’s DNA?
As sequencing becomes less expensive, genetic screening could support a kind of “precision public health” approach to medicine.
- Self-Care Tips for Parents of a Child With Central Precocious Puberty
When raising a child with central precocious puberty (CPP), it’s important to take steps not only to maintain their well-being, but also your own.
- Spotlight On: Heart Failure
Treatment for heart failure is improving as researchers develop new drugs and devices to strengthen the heart, and sometimes reverse damage. Learn more.
- How Tech Changed My Life With Heart Failure
Diagnosed with heart failure at just 26 years old, Brittany Clayborne relied on electronics and technology to keep her heart pumping.
- Breast Cancer Best Practices: Factors That May Affect Care
Learn how medical mistrust and other health conditions may impact the standard of care for women of color with metastatic breast cancer.