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After preventive surgeries triggered early menopause at 40, Monica Molenaar rebuilt her health through strength training and hormone therapy. At 52, she's in the best shape of her life and helping other women navigate menopause.
Chinese scientists successfully treated children born deaf by delivering a missing gene directly into their inner ear cells. All patients under age 3 can now hear everyday conversations after a single treatment.
UnityPoint Health in Dubuque now offers a specialized physical therapy program that helps young people with scoliosis avoid surgery. The first program of its kind in the tri-state area gives local families access to treatment that previously required traveling to Iowa City, Chicago, or beyond.
Millions living with lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and multiple sclerosis could soon trade a lifetime of medication for a single treatment. Sail Biomedicines is unveiling breakthrough data on a therapy that reprograms immune cells inside the body to potentially cure autoimmune diseases.
Five people with a life-threatening blood disorder no longer need regular transfusions after receiving a groundbreaking gene therapy in China. The treatment could bring hope to 350 million carriers of thalassaemia worldwide.
A new pill targeting aggressive pancreatic and lung cancers showed remarkable results in early trials, shrinking tumors in nearly two-thirds of lung cancer patients. The therapy offers fresh hope for patients facing some of the deadliest cancer diagnoses.
Your brain has 11 negative thoughts about yourself every day, but a five-step writing method backed by therapists can flip that script. The same mental pattern that feeds self-doubt can work in your favor instead.
A researcher who started as a funeral director just helped bring a new cancer treatment from concept to FDA approval. Miranda Carpenter's bispecific molecule is now giving patients' immune systems a fighting chance against tumors.
Researchers at University of Rochester Medicine received NIH funding to develop a breakthrough treatment that could stop macular degeneration before it steals vision from millions of older adults. The new therapy targets a protein that drives the disease at its earliest stages.
For nearly two decades, San Diego nurse Rod Salaysay has strummed his guitar and ukulele through 12-hour shifts, turning hospital rooms into havens of hope. Now 65, he's retiring at year's end, leaving behind thousands of serenaded patients and a legacy that proves medicine and music can work miracles together.
A one-time gene-editing treatment just became the first to succeed in a major clinical trial, reducing dangerous swelling attacks by 87% for people with a rare genetic condition. The breakthrough could change what's possible for treating genetic diseases.
A groundbreaking therapy is showing real promise against cancers long considered impossible to treat, shrinking tumors in patients who'd run out of options. The experimental drug targets a genetic mutation affecting thousands of lung and pancreatic cancer patients each year.
Up to one-third of women experience pelvic floor disorders after pregnancy, yet most don't seek help until symptoms force them to. Health experts are now calling for automatic pelvic floor physical therapy referrals for all new mothers.
A groundbreaking treatment focuses on rebuilding patients' capacity for happiness rather than just reducing negative feelings, showing better results than standard therapy. Nearly 90% of people with depression struggle to feel joy, a symptom most treatments ignore.
A single-dose CRISPR treatment freed patients from a painful genetic disorder that causes life-threatening swelling attacks. The breakthrough marks the first Phase 3 success for in vivo gene editing and could launch in 2027.
Barefoot hiking trails across Germany and now the U.S. are inviting people to ditch their shoes and reconnect with nature through sensory experiences. Walking shoeless over mud, pine needles, and varied surfaces may boost emotional wellbeing and foot health while fostering environmental stewardship.
Understanding how you and your partner argue could be the missing piece in building a healthier relationship. Relationship experts say identifying your "argument style" helps couples communicate better and resolve conflicts faster.
Under a Hong Kong overpass, elderly women perform an ancient ritual that helps people let go of grudges by hitting paper with shoes. New research shows this quirky tradition delivers real therapeutic benefits for just $13.
Researchers at UC Irvine have restored failing vision in older mice using a targeted fatty acid therapy, offering new hope for treating age-related blindness. The breakthrough could one day help millions of older adults regain sight lost to macular degeneration.
After 40 years without progress, researchers have developed drugs that are doubling survival times for pancreatic cancer patients. One experimental treatment helped half of patients live beyond 13 months, compared to just over six months with standard chemotherapy. ##
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