You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. This past December, I found out I had a form of breast cancer called ductal carcinoma in situ, or DCIS ...

A writer explores how a Jewish ritual changed her relationship with mortality. By Jessica Alpert I had a hole in my chest. Three weeks had passed since my open-heart surgery. My body was rejecting ...

Before my mother’s recent surgery in India, she had one in the U.S. almost eight years ago. Back in late September 2011, my mother had to have emergency back surgery in Abbott Northwestern Hospital in ...

There was a moment in February when I thought my golf season might be over before it had even started. I had woken up in a hospital bed from knee surgery in serious pain and wearing a balky leg brace.

Gender-identity issues are quickly gaining some much-needed visibility. On April 24, Bruce Jenner revealed he’s a transgender woman in a groundbreaking interview with Diane Sawyer (according to ...

CLEVELAND — On April 9, I went into surgery expecting to receive a polymer implant that would replace bone around my left eye socket that previous surgeries had to remove. I would be the second ...

Erin Orchard, 36, underwent a vision corrective eye procedure but complications left her in terrible pain that has never gone away. Here, she shares her story. "Prior to the laser eye surgery, I was ...

She's currently consuming the maximum dose of pain medication.