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Low-carb diet: Can it help you lose weight?
Find out about low-carb diets, from what's off-limits to potential health benefits.
Weight loss: Choosing a diet that's right for you
Weight loss is your goal, but which diet will help you get there? Get the skinny on evaluating diet plans.
South Beach Diet
Weighing your weight-loss options? The South Beach Diet emphasizes lower carbs, more proteins and healthy fats to lose pounds.
Mayo Clinic Minute: Meningitis 101 for college students
College life can increase the risk of bacterial meningitis, a potentially serious infection – but a vaccine can offer protection.
HCG diet: Is it safe and effective?
Learn about the risks of this dangerous diet.
Coffee calories: Sabotaging your weight loss?
Plain coffee has only a few calories. But the calories jump up when adding extras.
Henoch-Schonlein purpura
Learn about the symptoms, causes and treatment of this blood vessel disease, also called IgA vasculitis, that causes a purplish rash on the lower legs.
Keloid scar
Learn about how to prevent, remove or flatten these problematic raised scars that form over scars from acne, tattoos, piercing and other injuries.
Pituitary tumors
Learn more about the symptoms, causes and treatment of growths that develop in the pituitary gland.
Pap smear
A Pap smear, also called a Pap test, is used for cervical cancer screening. Learn how it's done and what the results might mean.
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