WITH MY FEET in the stirrups, I felt an electric jolt of pain roll through my abdomen. I gripped the sides of the examination table, knuckles turning white. The two Tylenol the nurse had told me to ...

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New federal guidance is expanding testing for cervical cancer with a self-collection method. Dr. Mara Gordon speaks to NPR about why this option might become popular for screening for HPV.

An antibody titer test identifies and measures the amount of antibodies in your blood, which indicates the strength of your immune response. Doctors use this test to determine if you’ve had past ...

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Angelina Jolie revealed her double mastectomy scars for the first time. More than a decade after going under the knife, the actress posed for Time France with the mark on display. “I share these scars ...

Don’t worry, it’s not just you. Everyone dropped their first, or likely fortieth, F-bomb when their dad had them hold the spark plug while he hit the kickstarter on their dirt bike. While it might ...

Johns Hopkins University geneticists and a small army of researchers across the country, including students, are working to catalog the vast and largely unknown soil microbiome of the U.S. The project ...

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