You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. This past December, I found out I had a form of breast cancer called ductal carcinoma in situ, or DCIS ...

A writer explores how a Jewish ritual changed her relationship with mortality. By Jessica Alpert I had a hole in my chest. Three weeks had passed since my open-heart surgery. My body was rejecting ...

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There was a moment in February when I thought my golf season might be over before it had even started. I had woken up in a hospital bed from knee surgery in serious pain and wearing a balky leg brace.

CLEVELAND — On April 9, I went into surgery expecting to receive a polymer implant that would replace bone around my left eye socket that previous surgeries had to remove. I would be the second ...

Gender-identity issues are quickly gaining some much-needed visibility. On April 24, Bruce Jenner revealed he’s a transgender woman in a groundbreaking interview with Diane Sawyer (according to ...

Erin Orchard, 36, underwent a vision corrective eye procedure but complications left her in terrible pain that has never gone away. Here, she shares her story. "Prior to the laser eye surgery, I was ...