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  Against the Odds: Dr. Tedd Collins on the Difficulty of Mixed Heritage Donation

  Dr. Tedd Collins is an immunologist and the founder of Become Mandi's Hero, an organization searching for a bone marrow or cord blood transplant for leukemia patient Mandi Schwartz.

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  Leukemia: The Race for a Cure

  Mandi Schwartz, a 22-year-old student and member of the Yale women's hockey team, was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in December 2008. Click to find out how you can help her.

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  Body Image: The Unreal Ideal

  The desire to conform to the cultural ideal of the perfect body drives countless young women (and increasingly young men) to dietary regimes which can become extreme and evolve into dangerous eating disorders.

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  Body Dysmorphic Disorder

  Almost two-thirds of body dysmporphic disorder sufferers spend at least three hours a day thinking about flaws in their appearance.

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  For Appropriate Pregnancy Weight Gain, Look to the Experts, Not the Stars

  It’s easy for a mom-to-be to craving comfort foods to find comfort of a different sort in the pages of her favorite tabloid. If a supermodel can afford to let herself go for nine months, so can I. Right?

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  Menopause: in My 50s… or My 40s?

  In a time when many women are pushing childbirth into their mid-30s and beyond, gaining more precise knowledge about exactly when menopause will occur has become more important than ever.

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  The Circumcision Decision

  Right off the bat, parents of newborn boys in the US are faced with an important and irreversible decision: should their son be circumcised?

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  Brittle Bones: The News About Osteoporosis

  The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases estimates 10 million people in the US have osteoporosis.

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  The Odds of Panic Disorder

  Your heart starts racing. You become overwhelmed by fear and feel like you’re about to die. No, you’re not being chased by a serial killer—you’re posing for a family photo, or driving to the grocery store. Such is the reality of people who suffer from panic disorders

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  Understanding Erectile Dysfunction

  Few personal matters are fraught with so much anxiety as erectile dysfunction, and no wonder—not only is it intimately connected with male pride, but it’s hard to say for sure what even constitutes ED.

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  Tuberculosis in the Air: The Wrong Target?

  We often think of tuberculosis—if we think of it at all—as mostly eradicated. So much so that when a student in Silver Spring, MD recently came down with a confirmed case of active TB, it made national news.

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