alana: you’re listening to The Takeaway† I’m Alana Casanova-Burgess in for Melissa Harris-Perry. Once you start thinking about the cult of resilience, you see its messaging all around you. How we should push through pain in all areas of our lives. It happened to me a few weeks ago. I was scrolling through Twitter when …
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Uterine fibroids or leiomyomas or myomas are a common type of noncancerous muscular tumor that vary a lot in size, shape and location and can grow in your uterus, on uterine wall, its surface or attach to your uterus by a stalk- or stem-like structure. While some fibroids are so small that your doctor can’t …
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TUPELO – In June 2021, Michael Ruff Thomas was diagnosed with metastatic uveal melanoma, a cancer that originated in his eye and eventually spread to his liver. On May 14, 2022, he died at home at the age of 73. Today, his family will celebrate their first Father’s Day without him. “None of us has …
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In the busy emergency department where mental health nurse Kim Gallaher works, people at the lowest point in their life can wait up to 12 hours before being seen. They’ve reached a point where they desperately need help, and need it now. “You help people quite literally on the worst day of their life,” Ms …
Dear Dr. roach: Would you recommend a prophylactic hysterectomy and oophorectomy for a 52-year-old overweight woman to address the increased cancer risk from long-term obesity? – JT Answer: Surgery to prevent ovarian cancer is considered in those who are at the highest risk for ovarian cancer. This means those with genetic syndromes – BRCA 1 …
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