Lung Cancer Kills an Alarming Number of Women — But There’s Hope
In 2013, Ivy Elkins started feeling a worsening pain in her neck and an odd pain in her elbow. Eventually,
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Struggling to Quit Smoking? Your Genes Might Be at Fault
November 18 is the Great American Smokeout. At 15-years-old, Melinda Fenick tried her first cigarette in the girl’s bathroom of
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By Jon-Patrick Allem, University of Southern California Research that my colleagues and I recently conducted demonstrates that electronic cigarette product
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Reviewed by Dr. Nieca Goldberg About one in nine women in the United States have diabetes, a disease that occurs
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Joanna had her first cigarette at 16. “My older sister smoked and so did her friends,” Joanna* wrote in an
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This story is part of our Real Women, Real Stories series, documenting the lived experiences of women along their health
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