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- What I’ve Learned From My Patients About the Challenges of Heart Failure
What I’ve learned from my patients about the challenges of heart failure. A cardiologist speaks out.
- When Your Migraine Pain Is Dismissed
A migraine diagnosis is a key part of your treatment plan. Here’s what to do if your doctor isn’t taking your pain seriously.
- Metastatic Breast Cancer and Advocating for Yourself
How to make sure you get the care and support you need.
- Quick-Acting Migraine Medication: What to Know
Learn which drugs may ease your pain ASAP when a migraine hits.
- How to Keep a Bladder Diary
A bladder diary tracks your fluid intake and output and helps you manage your overactive bladder (OAB) symptoms.
- Structural Racism and Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
Learn how discrimination enforced in housing, education, employment, health care, and more may play a role in health disparities.
- Racial Disparities in Metastatic Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
Learn more about these differences, possible reasons why, and what can be done.
- Research Needed to Reduce Racial Disparities
Learn how clinical studies can help change the course of metastatic triple-negative breast cancer in women of color.
- Family History and mTNBC: What to Know
Get the facts on how family history affects your risk of triple-negative breast cancer.
- Living With Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis
Samantha Payne Smith shares what living with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis is like, from diagnosis to treatment.
- How Science Has Transformed Multiple Sclerosis
A neurologist shares how the understanding and treatment of multiple sclerosis have evolved over the years.
- Spotlight On: Vitiligo in Darker Skin Tones
A skin of color expert explains how a new treatment for vitiligo benefits those with the autoimmune condition, especially people with darker skin.
- Vitiligo: Learning to Love My New Look
Read how one woman learned to celebrate the changes in her skin.
- Spotlight On: Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis
Anyone can get relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. But there are disparities when it comes to certain racial and ethnic groups.
- Having ‘The Talk’ with Your Doctor About Your Late-Stage NSCLC Treatment and Outlook
Late-Stage NSCLC: What your doctor may talk about, like treatment, outcome, outlook, palliative care, hospice care, and end-of-life changes.
- Advances in Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer Treatment
The discovery that there are many types of NSCLC has led to many advances in how the disease is treated. Learn what you need to know.
- NSCLC: When You Need More Than One Treatment
Not long ago, chemotherapy was the only treatment for this type of cancer. Now, doctors have many options. Sometimes, they combine them.
- Keeping Track of Your Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
A lung specialist explains two common tests doctors use to monitor your PAH.
- Advancements in Treating Psoriatic Arthritis
Research into new, more targeted drugs means doctors have more choices than ever to treat psoriatic arthritis.
- BIPOC With Psoriatic Arthritis
What’s it like living with psoriatic arthritis for a Black woman. Find out one woman’s diagnosis journey.
- My Daily Life With Psoriatic Arthritis
Living with psoriatic arthritis means listening to your body. Here's how one woman manages everyday life with the condition.
- Top 9 Benefits of Exercise (and How Much to Do)
Exercise has significant benefits for your body and mind. Here are the top nine benefits of regular physical activity and exercise.
- Why I'm Hopeful About Treating Crohn's
There are treatments on the horizon that offer hope for people with the condition.
- On Being a Person of Color With Crohn’s Disease
She had good insurance and sound eating habits, but her symptoms kept getting worse. See how a woman got a Crohn's diagnosis, and how it changed her life.
- Intimacy and Crohn’s Disease
Crohn’s disease can cause a variety of digestive tract issues. It can also affect your sex life. A gastroenterologist has advice on dealing with that.
- Representation in Psoriasis Education and Research
People of color are often not represented in research and clinical studies. Learn what this means for your psoriasis treatment and how it’s changing.
- Equal Access to Plaque Psoriasis Treatment
People of color have long faced barriers to health care. See how this impacts your treatment for plaque psoriasis and how things may be changing.
- Finding Plaque Psoriasis Support from People Who Look Like You
You have an easier time treating your psoriasis – and feel more comfortable as you do – with support from people who look like you.
- What’s Behind Plaque Psoriasis Misdiagnoses in People of Color?
Plaque psoriasis misdiagnosis is common in people of color. Learn the reasons why, how it can affect your health, and what you can do to get better care.
- Multiple Myeloma: How Do Disparities Affect Outcomes?
Learn how race can affect the treatment and diagnosis of this blood cancer and what that means for people who have it.
- Habits: Ways to Set Good Ones and Ditch the Bad
Habits are what can turn your goal or resolution into reality. Find out how to make good ones and break bad habits – for keeps.
- Facing Death Without Fear: Psychedelics for End-of-Life Care
Psychedelics have been shown under certain circumstances to be an effective complement to psychological support for end-of-life patients.
- Stroke Risk in Adults Younger Than You May Think
Some types of stroke are becoming more common in people younger than you might expect. Find out what helps lower your stroke risk.
- The Social Aspects of Living With Eosinophilic Esophagitis
Ryan Piansky has had eosinophilic esophagitis since he was 2 years old. Learn more about how he’s learned to navigate his social life with the condition.
- Caring For Your Mental Health Along With Heart Failure
To take good care of your heart, you need to be mindful of your mood, too. Here are the keys to staying mentally healthy when you have heart failure.
- Build Your Heart Failure Care Team
Heart failure is complex. Learn how to build a winning team of health professionals to get the care you deserve.
- Financial Planning for Heart Failure
There are many potential costs when you have heart failure. Read about some factors to consider when you’re planning for the future.
- Jenna Bell’s Heart Failed at 23
Jenna Bell went into heart failure when she was only 23 years old. She had no family history or risk factors. Read her story.
- Give Safe Gifts: Avoid These Holiday Toy Safety Hazards
Find out what to look for and what to avoid when buying holiday toys that are safe for kids.
- Advances in Managing Treatment-Resistant Depression
An expert in treatment-resistant depression shares successful treatment strategies doctors can try to help with TRD.
- Why Are Black Mothers at Higher Risk for Miscarriage?
Black mothers have a 43% greater risk for miscarriage. Why? WebMD looks at the biological, social, and cultural factors that play a part.
- Spotlight On: Myasthenia Gravis
Myasthenia gravis issues: health disparities, quality of life, stigma, gender issues, and treatment access.
- Keep Cats and Dogs Away From the Christmas Tree
Christmas tree tinsel, ornaments, candles, and lights can tempt dogs and cats at Christmastime. Here’s how to keep them safe.
- Keep Your Pet Safe for the Holidays
Tinsel, ornaments, and even human snacks can tempt pets at holiday time and make them sick. Here’s how to keep them safe and yourself sane.
- Pleasure Quest: In Search of the Elusive Orgasm
Female orgasm remains a taboo topic, not only at the dinner table but even in clinical circles.
- Fitting MS Into Your Schedule
The unpredictable nature of MS can take a toll on your overall quality of life, socially and emotionally.
- Graphic Medicine: The Unlikely but Promising Partnership of Comics and Health Care
Graphic medicine, at the intersection between comics and health care, offers patients something that’s often missing in a formal medical setting: the feeling that their voice is being heard.
- Taking Control of Your HER2-Positive Breast Cancer in the Doctor's Office
Five ways to advocate for yourself when you have HER2-positive breast cancer.
- Autism Myths and Facts
What causes autism? Is it something only diagnosed in children? Get the facts on autism spectrum disorder.
- The 5 Love Languages: 1 Couple's 7-Day Test
A couple tries Gary Chapman's 5 Love Languages to strengthen their marriage.