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Get tips, advice, and answers to women’s health questions, diseases, and medical conditions.

Seniors' Health: Could snoring be linked to eye disease?

There is evidence that nighttime breathing problems could damage the optic nerve

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Women's Health: Breastfeeding counteracts cancer risk

The practice may be especially beneficial for women who have a first pregnancy after age 24

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Men's Health: Racial gap in prostate cancer recurrence remains a mystery

Survival shortfall persists in African-American men despite greater experience of hospitals and surgeons

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Women's Health: Multiple sclerosis strikes women four times as often

No one can explain the rapid increase in the gap between the number of female and male MS patients

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Seniors' Health: Mediterranean and low-fat diets are both heart-healthy

Heart attack survivors benefit from either approach in combination with intensive counselling

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