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Navigating a MAC lung disease diagnosis can be challenging. There can be a lot of uncertainty and many questions that arise. It helps to keep in touch with your doctor...

Inherited hemophilia is not the only type of bleeding disorder. Other bleeding disorders can appear similar to hemophilia but involve different abnormalities. Diagnosing a bleeding disorder requires blood tests. Blood...

There are many types of lung disease. Some lung problems are caused by genetic issues like cystic fibrosis. Environmental exposures like cigarette smoke can cause lung disease, too. And certain...

MAC lung disease is caused by Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) germs. MAC germs are all around. They live in soil, water, household dust, and some food products. Humans and animals...

Being diagnosed with a rare disease can be shocking, even scary! When I was diagnosed with Narcolepsy Type 1, I was relieved to know what the source of the problem...

An estimated 86,000 people in the United States live with nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) lung disease. And the number of people diagnosed with NTM – especially among women and older adults...

Glucose is an important sugar that bodies need for energy. The body packs small molecules of glucose into large molecules called glycogen. Glycogen is stored in the cells of the...

Voting is a fundamental American right, but it has special meaning for people with disabilities or health conditions. Until federal laws like the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) were enacted...

I’m no stranger to autoimmune conditions. Let's take a look: I am among the roughly 1% of the population that has celiac disease, an autoimmune condition related to the consumption...

Editor’s Note: This article was written by Megan Barlow and originally appeared on our Cystic-Fibrosis.com community. I have always been active. Since I can remember, I’ve been involved in all...

Rare cancers affect fewer than 40,000 people per year in the United States. These cancers make up about a quarter of all cancers and account for about a quarter of...

I’m a fan of therapy, but to be honest, I personally haven’t always found it to be helpful in the past. Perhaps I just hadn’t found the right therapist for...

Genes are the pieces of DNA that make us who we are. They determine our eye and hair color, how tall we will be, and if we are prone to...

The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD) is used worldwide to standardize the classification of diseases. It is used as a uniform way to collect statistics...

When your doctor suspects you have an illness, they may give you one or more medical tests to help them make a diagnosis. But what happens when the results fail...

Our genes are like a recipe book for our bodies. They tell our cells what to do, how to grow, and how to repair themselves. Genes play a role in...

A clinical trial is a type of research. Research is the process scientists use to explain how our bodies work or why our bodies stop working well. Clinical trials are...

Clinical trials or studies have a language of their own. It helps to understand the common terms doctors use when talking about a clinical trial before you sign up. Here...

Clinical trials are medical studies that pose a question: Does a new treatment work better than older treatments? Each year, thousands of treatments are tested in controlled experiments called clinical...

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