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Dawn Gosselin was 16 years old when she had her first seizure. “I was at a rest area in New Jersey, heading home from Washington, D.C., with my high school band,” she said. At the time, she chalked it up to a combination of being up late with her friends and being busy, but it was more serious than that. She had epilepsy. No one in Gosselin’s family had epilepsy, as far as she knew, so she had no experience with the condition.
Epilepsy is a brain disorder that causes seizures. It affects more...

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By Michelle M. Kittleson, MD, PhD, as told to Marijke Vroomen Durning, RN
All medical specialties have unique challenges. Cardiology is no different, especially for patients with heart failure. When patients hear they have heart failure, they’re terrified. But they shouldn’t be because, even if it sounds that way, heart failure does not mean your heart is failing and you’re about to die any minute.
A more accurate term for heart failure – and probably less scary – is cardiomyopathy. “Cardio” ...

By J. Emanuel Finet, MD, as told to Marijke Vroomen Durning, RN
As a cardiologist who works mainly with heart failure patients, I’ve seen a significant increase in treatment options since I first began practicing. Most importantly, there are new drugs that help these patients live longer, like the combination sacubitril-valsartan pill. Among other things, this drug helps preserve or recover the heart’s “ejection fraction.” As heart failure progresses, the ejection fraction (a measurement that...

By Tauseef Ali, MD as told to Marijke Vroomen Durning, RN
Managing patients with a chronic condition like Crohn’s disease is challenging professionally and personally. I’ve been working with this population and people with other gastrointestinal disorders for more than 15 years now. But as challenging as the work can be, it is gratifying when I see a patient with chronic, debilitating symptoms get better. I see that with timely and effective therapies, their intestines are healed, their sympt...

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Stranger Things
These researchers go beyond traditional mammal models to investigate the weird and unusual in the animal kingdom.
By Marijke Vroomen Durning, RN
When thinking of animal studies, most laypeople think of rats, mice or other mammals as test research subjects. But if we go back to the 17th to 19th centuries, biologists didn’t study mouse models; they looked at a variety of organisms to learn and un...

Tattooing is such an ancient art that some tattoo tools found in Europe are estimated to be 12,000 years old. But it’s only in the past few decades that tattooing has started to lose its stigma. It was actually illegal in Oklahoma until 2006 and banned in New York City between 1961 and 1997.
Tattoos were originally used by people who identified with certain groups or as symbols of rebellion. The art has since gradually moved to the mainstream and is now popular among people of all ages, even ...

“I’m scared and worried,” wrote Dennis Abrams in a column in The Houston Chronicle in July 2017. Abrams’ husband, David Fox, had just been diagnosed with early-onset dementia. Abrams wasn’t surprised. The changes he’d seen in his husband were adding up and the diagnosis was confirmation of his suspicions. After 30 years together, they knew they needed to make plans to make Fox’s life easier and Abrams’ manageable. Little did they know that they had less than a year from the diagnosis before F...

If you’re among the 7 to 10 million quilters in the United States, you likely already know how quilting can have a positive impact on your life. Studies have shown crafting can have a healing effect on the mind, but did you know the art of quilting may help restore or maintain your health?
Quilting Offers a Sense of Belonging
With families and friends spread out across the country, it’s easy to feel disconnected. Unlike many other crafts, quilting can provide the sense of community that has b...

Hotel Keys of Hope offers patients discounted or free hotel rooms to ease travel for cancer care.
For many people with cancer, getting the best care means getting to a large city. A major barrier to this: the cost of travel. Although health insurance usually covers the costs associated with the care itself, each patient foots the bill for gas, flights, lodging and food.
Average cost of one night in a U.S. hotel room: $120.72. Factor in dining out and transportation and the price tag can be ov...

Are you always tired and irritable no matter how many hours of sleep you get? Does your significant other complain about your snoring? These signs could point to a problem you may not have considered: sleep apnea.
Also called sleep-disordered breathing, this is a very common sleep issue. It can cause your breathing to become very shallow or stop altogether for a few seconds to minutes. This can happen several times an hour. But how do you know if you're suffering from sleep apnea, and is ther...