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Grand Slam champion Monica Seles recently revealed she is living with myasthenia gravis

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50 h. ago Prince William opens up on ‘difficult questions’ from children after Kate’s cancer diagnosis

Prince William opened up about the “difficult questions” he faced from his children after Princess Kate’s cancer diagnosis.

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66 h. ago Countryfile star opens up on 'difficult' times with wife in sad cancer admission

Countryfile presenter Adam Henson has opened up about the difficult times he has faced, including his wife Charlie's cancer diagnosis, as he spoke about mental health

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9 d. ago The doctor's ultimate guide to curing cruel fibromyalgia: Yes it's real but GPs can be so dismissive. Please don't suffer in silence

Sarah had fibromyalgia, a condition that affects nearly one in 20 people but remains frustratingly difficult to diagnose and, for many patients, even harder to have taken seriously.

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9 d. ago DR MAX PEMBERTON: Tried everything to cure your fibromyalgia? This is my expert guide to what REALLY helps

Sarah had fibromyalgia, a condition that affects nearly one in 20 people but remains frustratingly difficult to diagnose and, for many patients, even harder to have taken seriously.

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2 w. ago ‘A medical miracle’: is period blood ‘the most overlooked opportunity’ in women’s health?

Period blood has long been thought of as ‘stinky and useless’, but startups are exploring using the fluid to test for a wide range of health conditions – including difficult-to-diagnose endometriosisSomewhere in the US a woman on her period pulled out her dripping, saturated tampon. But instead of wrapping it in toilet paper and tossing it into a bin, she put the tampon in a special plastic sample container, screwed the lid on tight and mailed it to an address in Oakland, California.The address was that of NextGen Jane (NGJ), a Bay Area-based startup founded in 2014. And now Julia Carr, NGJ’s clinical research coordinator, stands in the company’s lab under a fume hood happily decanting a mixture of the woman’s blood and a preservation solution into a test tube. She will go on to pipette out small amounts to freeze and store for later analysis. NGJ has obtained about 2,500 menstrual blood samples this way – from women volunteering to send in their used tampons – for its research. Tha...

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