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The Most Common Symptoms of a Brain Tumor
July 20, 2017Surgery is not the most common way brain tumors are usually found and diagnosed. Neither are headaches, believe it or not. ... Read more
Whack-a-Mole: Signs Your Mole Needs to Go
July 17, 2017Experts say that nearly 70 percent of melanomas are new moles, but 30 percent appear from changing moles. ... Read more
The Pain of Sunburns
June 26, 2017Just one bad sunburn increases your chances of skin cancer. ... Read more
Your Mother's Eyes and Your Father's High Cholesterol
March 21, 2017The Centers for Disease Control says that if you have a family health history of a chronic disease like cancer, heart disease, diabetes, or osteoporosis, you are more likely to get that disease yourself. ... Read more
Alcohol and Melanoma: A New Link
December 07, 2016New research from the American Association for Cancer Research has added melanoma — the deadliest form of skin cancer — to the list of cancers correlated to alcohol use. ... Read more
When a Mole is Something More
October 28, 2016“In many cases melanomas are the ugly duckling on the body. People can sometimes pick them out even from an untrained eye,” Julia Curtis, MD, assistant director of the mole mapping program at the Midvalley Health Center. ... Read more
Summer Skin: Then and Now
May 22, 2016Popular descriptions of modern summer skin usually include terms such as “golden” or “sun-kissed.” But those phrases would most likely make your great-grandmother shudder. ... Read more