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Screening for stroke in children with sickle cell anemia could be lifesaving.

Many women with fibroids complain that often doctors don’t listen to what patients say. Some are speaking up.

A blood test and a smartwatch activity tracker helped predict how quickly hip replacement surgery patients recuperated.

Doctors’ implicit biases can be particularly destructive to their patients’ health outcomes.

Kellie Smith, 52, lives in Austin with her husband and child. She has multiple myeloma.

Many breast cancer patients rely on cannabis not just to relieve side effects but to treat cancer yet may be unaware of possible harms.

During a doctor’s visit for severe pelvic and back pain, Twyla Hubbard, 46, a mom of two, first learned she had a large uterine fibroid.

How fibroids have affected one woman’s self-image and life.

A system that uses vagus nerve stimulation helps people regain mobility in their hands and arms after an ischemic stroke.

Julie’s irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) caused her to either not be able to go to the bathroom or to not be able to stop going.

Elsa’s switch to the night shift at her hectic job aggravated her gastrointestinal symptoms, which became progressively worse.

What you put on your plate could make all the difference in helping to manage and control irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) symptoms.

Tracking what you eat can help determine what’s causing the diarrhea and stomach pain that characterize irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).

Proteins found in the venom of this fearsome, furry spider may lead to potent, nonaddictive pain meds.

Despite heavy periods, Dearra Williams was unaware she had uterine fibroids. Then the worst pelvic pain she ever felt struck.

I come with so much baggage for a relationship.