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Find out how to pack your pregnancy diet with essential nutrients, including folate, iron and vitamin D.

No one can predict the future, but cancer survival rates can give you an idea of your prognosis. Should you pay attention to them?

Find out what clues might mean that your baby's teeth are coming in. Plus, learn safe ways to soothe sore gums.

The news is full of reports about cancer risk, but what does it all mean for you? Find out how to interpret cancer statistics.

Dust, fumes and other substances at work can cause asthma. Find out how to recognize this common type of asthma.

Learn more about this condition in which your skin loses pigment cells, resulting in very light or white patches on parts of the body.

Get the facts on common concerns and questions about taking combination birth control pills.

Limiting some activities during pregnancy sometimes may be useful. But bed rest is rarely advised because there's no evidence that it's helpful.

A PET scan can help find and track many health concerns such as cancer, heart disease and brain conditions. Test results may help guide treatment.

Find out why colposcopy is done and what to expect during an exam to diagnose cancer and other problems affecting the cervix, vagina and vulva.

Absence of menstruation (amenorrhea) may be linked to an underlying, treatable problem. Learn about amenorrhea causes and when to seek help.

Learn about the symptoms that may occur when a thinning wall of a blood vessel in your brain bulges — and know when to get emergency care.

Have you noticed — yet — having to hold books at arm's length to read them? Find out what options are available when it happens.

Learn about the symptoms of this type of cancer that forms under the tongue. Floor of the mouth cancer treatments include surgery, radiation and chemotherapy.

Learn about this rare cancer that begins in the adrenal glands. Find out about symptoms, diagnosis and treatment.

Learn about the diagnosis, treatment of this pregnancy complication of high blood pressure with related damage to the kidneys or other organs.