An international consensus study published in JAMA Dermatology established definitions for vitiligo severity and relapse, ...

I never get over the weirdness of introducing myself to a group of people at a 12-step meeting. “Hi, I’m T and I’m an addict,” is how I have started a lot of conversations. Other people in recovery ...

For decades, prevailing wisdom held that to overcome addiction, the most important thing to do was to flush or “clean” the drugs out of one’s system, to get a fresh start. But more and more, research ...

Achieving complete remission should be considered the standard of care in antidepressant treatment (Thase, 1999). Succinctly, the goals of antidepressant therapy should be to: (1) reduce and ...

Nearly everyone with multiple myeloma relapses. That doesn’t make it easy. A cancer diagnosis is traumatic, especially when the cancer is treatable, but not curable. In multiple myeloma, the disease ...

Recovery from bulimia nervosa isn’t always a straight path. It’s common to experience lapses or relapses along the way. These setbacks don’t mean failure — they’re opportunities to learn and ...

Relapse isn’t a failure. It’s a signal. It tells us that something deeper is still driving our old behaviors. For decades, I’ve studied the science of addiction, relapse, and behavior change through ...

The results showed that 84% of these early relapses could have been predicted by using two types of genetic tests together. Only two patients had a truly unexpected early relapse—meaning they had no ...

When my daughter relapsed after six years of sobriety, it took her less than five months to lose everything she had worked so hard for: her job, her savings, her good credit rating, and—most ...

Phase III Trial: Adjuvant Pelvic Radiation Therapy Versus Vaginal Brachytherapy Plus Paclitaxel/Carboplatin in High-Intermediate and High-Risk Early-Stage Endometrial Cancer However, it is important ...