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Kory Short happy to be back in school
Kory Short is back in class at Tracy City School, after battling with Grundy County school officials over disability access issues.
Read more...When, And How, To Ask For A Second Medical Opinion
When faced with a major medical decision, it can be difficult for patients to determine when it's appropriate to seek a second opinion. Asking another doctor can help catch misdiagnoses or prevent unnecessary treatments, but they can also be a waste of time and resources.
Read more...Friend’s breast cancer journey is not as fortunate
A 33-year-old graduate student has Medicaid instead of private health insurance, making her options more limited.
Read more...Breast implant scandal: waive legal rights, clinic demands
One of Britain's biggest users of faulty breast implants is making women sign away their rights to legal action if they want to take up its offer of cut-price replacements.
Read more...Grant Wahl: Seattle's Steve Zakuani on the road to recovery
TUKWILA, Wash. -- You knew it was bad, but not this bad: potentially career-ending bad, the kind of life-changing injury that caused a 23-year-old rising star, the No. 1 pick in the 2009 MLS draft, to start thinking of new ways to make a living. That's exactly what Steve Zakuani, the Seattle Sounders fan-favorite midfielder, found himself contemplating one night last June, two months after a ...
Read more...Grant Wahl: Seattle's Zakuani on the road to recovery
TUKWILA, Wash. -- You knew it was bad, but not this bad: potentially career-ending bad, the kind of life-changing injury that caused a 23-year-old rising star, the No. 1 pick in the 2009 MLS draft, to start thinking of new ways to make a living. That's exactly what Steve Zakuani, the Seattle Sounders fan-favorite midfielder, found himself contemplating one night last June, two months after a ...
Read more...Valerie Keefe: SOPA and Transition Medicine: We've Been Here Before
There are trans people who depend on grey-market Internet pharmacies when they live in places where transition treatment is not legally proscribed but effectively proscribed, much like access to abortion. SOPA would curtail access to those pharmacies.
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