Six years ago, Suzanne Singletary traveled to central Florida to
spend Christmas with her family.
She had a small cough,
so she stopped at a local pharmacy to get some medication.
“When I pulled into the parking lot, I coughed up a thin piece
of blood the size of a strand of hair,” says Suzanne, 70, of Shell
Point Beach, Florida. “It shook me up, though I didn’t tell my family.
I didn’t want to spoil their Christmas...
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Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease that causes inflammation and swelling in the joints. It’s caused when the immune system mistakenly attacks the joints which are the parts of the body that connect two or more bones. If left untreated, it can cause stiff, swollen, painful joints and lead to difficulty moving.
Patients with rheumatoid arthritis may focus on controlling symptoms, but patients who also have...
I’m a nurse, so when I started experiencing pain and swelling in my lower abdomen, I suspected inflammatory bowel disease, or even worse,...
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Before I went to MD Anderson, I didn’t even know I had pancreatic cancer. All I knew was that I had a huge pancreatic cyst. And I only found...
Most melanomas tend to appear as irregular black or dark brown splotches on the skin. But amelanotic melanoma is an outlier: it doesn’t share...
There are over 6 billion letters, or nucleotides, of DNA in the genome. These contain all the information needed to create an individual organism...