chronic illness

Young woman’s period lasts for 4 months

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Rachel Carter

Women’s Health By SWNS Published May 5, 2024, 9:54 a.m. ET A UK woman who once had a period that lasted four ...

New hope for Lyme disease prevention found in human sweat

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Rachel Carter

Health By Tracy Swartz Published March 19, 2024, 9:46 p.m. ET Lyme disease is a tick-borne infection that sometimes results in chronic ...

‘You Feel Like You Have Been Poisoned’

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Rachel Carter

“The sensation often felt akin to being poisoned.” Katherine Francis, 30, has been living with long COVID for three and a half ...

How ‘sick shaming’ cold symptoms leads to further germ spread

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Rachel Carter

Medicine By Brooke Steinberg Published Dec. 20, 2023, 2:46 p.m. ET In this post-pandemic world, many have become hyperaware of illness around ...

Teen suffers ‘first-of-its-kind’ vocal cord paralysis from COVID

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Rachel Carter

A 15-year-old girl in Massachusets has suffered paralysis of her vocal cords after contracting COVID-19 in a “first-of-its-kind” adolescent case. The otherwise ...