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Lumpectomy to remove small breast tumors is an important option for women, allowing many to survive cancer and keep their breasts.

Having struggled with acne for more than a decade, Aaron Goldberg had tried everything from antibiotics and prescription skin creams to Accutane, pills that often clear stubborn acne but carry many side effects.

Psychosomatic illnesses shouldn't be confused with imagined conditions. Helping those who imagine or feign illness is different from - and harder than - treating psychosomatic illness, says Dr. Marc Feldman, an expert in psychosomatic medicine.

Several studies over the last two decades have demonstrated how strong the link can be between the body and the mind.

Testing people for pollutants

When cancer spreads to the brain from its original site, such as the lung or breast, it becomes extremely difficult to treat.

In her hometown of Highland, California, at the foot of the San Bernardino Mountains, Arceli Keh feels she can hide the fact that, at age 63, she became the oldest woman on record to have a baby.

Anorexia nervosa is a difficult disease to understand, causing people to starve themselves or see themselves as fat when they're actually underweight.

Curry power!

Freezing their eggs has allowed women in the US to further defer marriage and motherhood.

Latest study links fast food to weight gain and twice the increase in insulin resistance.

More than 70 years after insulin was found to be a treatment for diabetes, doctors still are trying to figure out a better way to get the hormone into the bodies of people who need it — one that doesn't require needle sticks several times a day.