You may be stressed by many hard choices about breast reconstruction after a mastectomy. Learning you have breast cancer can be overwhelming. You may have already had a mastectomy, a surgery to remove ...

Establishment Labs ESTA recently announced that it has submitted its Motiva breast implants to the FDA for approval in ...

The U.S. poured billions of dollars into rebuilding Afghanistan for two decades. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with John Sopko, the former Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.

Breast reconstruction surgery is a procedure/s to rebuild your breasts after they've been removed (usually from cancer). Because of advances in breast reconstruction surgery, many women undergoing ...

Cancer can affect any part of the body, including the reproductive system. When surgeons have to remove part or all of the vagina due to cancer, reconstruction surgery offers a way to maintain vaginal ...

Following breast cancer treatment, you can choose from various breast reconstruction options, including implants and tissue flap procedures using tissue from other parts of the body. Breast ...

Call it the original "Great Escape." On May 13, 1862, just over a year into the Civil War, an enslaved man named Robert Smalls, who labored on a Confederate steamer in South Carolina's Charleston ...

It’s been more than a year since Hurricane Helene left a trail of destruction in Appalachia, but on Thursday, the small town ...

Gates is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. An award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, ...

In recent political debates over how to teach U.S. history, the subject of slavery has loomed large. Long-documented omissions and misrepresentations in lessons have left students with incomplete ...

On a misty April evening in 1865, a jubilant crowd packed the White House lawn to hear President Abraham Lincoln first speech since the end of the Civil War. They expected a stirring celebration of ...

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