Today is World Asthma Day, when people across the asthma community come together to raise awareness of the challenges being faced by millions of people living with asthma, their families, friends and caregivers. Asthma is a common condition, affecting approximately …
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, concern has grown over the potential neglect of other serious diseases. Multiple sclerosis (MS), for example, is a condition for which timely diagnosis, early treatment and the development of innovative therapies are particularly important for reducing the disabling progress of the disease. MS is the most common auto immune disorder to affect the central nervous system – that is, the brain and spinal cord. In many patients, the symptoms cause serious distress, increasingly diminishing their quality of life as their disability worsens. The average age of onset …
“I’m not letting you leave my office with that on your back.”
Jordan remembers her dermatologist’s words at the appointment that changed her life. At just 20 years old, she was diagnosed with advanced, stage III melanoma.
“Why me? I was too young to get skin cancer,” she remembers thinking. “I felt that I had done everything I could to limit my risk of skin cancer.”
But Jordan soon learned that while skin protection is important, skin cancer and melanoma can’t always be prevented.
Melanoma is the most serious and life-threatening type of skin cancer, but it is …
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