You’ve hurt your shoulder and your doctor tells you that you need a MRI. You agree, get the procedure, and voilà, you have a diagnosis. […]
Sticks and Stones… and Osteoporosis
Sticks and stones will break your bones—especially if you have osteoporosis. According to the National Osteoporosis Foundation, this bone-weakening disease causes two million bone breaks every year, usually in the hip, spine and wrist.
Should you get tested for hereditary breast cancer?
A whopping 296,980—that’s how many new cases of breast cancer were diagnosed in 2013, according to the American Cancer Society. The majority of cases are the result of chance, but about 5–10% are due to mutated BRCA genes, known as Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer (HBOC) syndrome.
