Actor Bruce Willis made a shocking announcement in the spring of 2022—he was stepping away from acting because he had been diagnosed with aphasia, a disorder that affects the ability to communicate
As a child, Russ Nockels, MD, believed he would grow up to become a Chicago firefighter.
Game-changing new technology is transforming physicians’ ability to perform lung biopsies, in even the smallest and hardest to reach airways.
The pancreas is a small organ located between the spine and intestines that produces enzymes to help digest food and hormones like insulin, which help regulate blood sugar.
The summer months mean lining up sports physicals for student athletes before school starts again.
When spring sports start, so do the chances of student-athletes getting injured on the playing fields.
Mammography is the gold standard for screening and is known to reduce mortality due to breast cancer. However, it cannot detect all cancers.
Cancer treatment sometimes feels almost as debilitating as the disease, but it’s important to keep moving as regular exercise can help recovery.
All children are miracles in a way. Shelly Battista’s twins — who were born two years to the day after she celebrated becoming cancer free — are truly medical miracles.
When cancer becomes metastatic, or spreads to other parts of the body, it’s a disconcerting shock.
It is absolutely never too late to stop smoking.
Mammograms remain the gold standard in breast cancer screening and the best way to detect early breast cancer or precancerous calcifications and other changes before they create potentially life-th
