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If you're a smoker, you may be ready to quit but need a guide for how to get from the "here" of smoking to the "there" of not smoking. Here's how to get started on your smoke-free journey.

Dense breast tissue can make detecting breast cancer with screening mammography more challenging. Molecular breast imaging is a different approach to breast imaging for women with dense breast tissue.

When noninvasive approaches don't relieve your shoulder pain, it's time to consult an orthopedic surgeon to discuss if shoulder replacement may be needed to relieve the pain.

As people age, so does the prevalence of mitral valve regurgitation. Learn about a new minimally invasive surgery available an alternative to traditional open-heart surgery to treat a leaky valve.

... area. These simple, quick procedures may be used to treat basal cell cancers or thin squamous cell cancers. Radiation therapy. Radiation therapy uses high-powered energy beams, such as X...

Lung nodules are small masses of tissue in the lungs. Most nodules aren't cancer, but all should be evaluated. Learn how your health care team discovers which should be tested for lung cancer.

This congenital condition causes a chest wall depression and has significant impact on a child's daily functioning. Learn how it's evaluated and why it's important to get treatment.

An average kindergartner goes to birthday parties, builds forts and starts learning how to read. But she doesn't plan on getting cancer. When Anika Chesak was diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma &mda...

Dorothy Ganong of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, was referred by her allergist to see a pulmonologist when medications and breathing treatments weren't helping her labored breathing. Fortunately, her pul...

Liver disease caused Megan Morgan's excess fluid buildup in her abdomen. A transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) acted like a "bypass road."