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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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