Teenager Handles His Disease With Confidence
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Diabetes is a disease that over eighteen million Americans have. The most serious form is Type 1, where the body fails to produce insulin.
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ELDRIDGE, Md. -- Being diagnosed with cancer is devastating, but imagine being diagnosed four times. That was the struggle for a young woman from Eldridge who just wouldn&#39;t give up.
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Dehydration from eight days without food and water contributed to the survival of a 17-year-old girl by preventing the expansion of a blood clot in her brain, doctors said.
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Cancer doesn't doom youngsters to a miserable childhood, new research suggests, finding that after treatment, many are just as happy and well-adjusted as those who never had the illness &#151; sometimes even more.
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A critically ill Wisconsin teenager who was bitten by a bat recovered after being put into a drug-induced coma and being given antiviral drugs.
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When teenager Nicole Agostino was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma last year, the hospital where she was treated was full of children and coloring books.
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I have spent most of the past three weeks inside a hospital room, watching a person I love fight for his life. It is in this frame of mind - raging helplessly against the ever-mutating cleverness of disease
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Cancer is less common in adolescents and young adults than in older people. But in some ways it is more alarming.
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Madeline Mann once weighed less than a can of soda as the tiniest surviving newborn known to medicine. Next week, she enters her suburban high school as something even more extraordinary -- an
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MIANCHI, China -- Twice a week, just after school lets out in this small county in Henan province, a 13-year-old girl with a short bob and wide smile holds her parents' hands and walks two blocks down the street into the harsh fluorescent light of an emergency medical station.
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A 16-year-old leukaemia patient foregoes further treatment so she can enjoy what is left of her life.
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At a young age I was diagnosed with celiac disease. How I learned to live--and thrive--on a gluten-free diet.
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A teenage girl in Wisconsin seems to have made medical history for being the first person to survive rabies after the onset of symptoms.
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Doctors in Wisconsin appear to have succeeded in their experiment to let a 15-year-old girl with deadly rabies fight the virus with her own immunity.
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A British man suffering from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), the human form of mad cow disease is no longer terminal ill, thanks to an experimental medical treatment, his father said.
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A medical scan can spot which young people risk sudden death because of a weak heart.
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SAN SALVADOR -- The first patient of the day was a plump 16-year-old wearing sparkly barrettes, Mary Janes-style shoes and a shy smile.