Coping with the Coronavirus Pandemic for People with Anxiety Disorders

Anxiety, Chicago Health Magazine Online

These days, we all have to accept the anxiety inherent in living in the time of the coronavirus pandemic and Covid-19. If there were a way to dispel all anxious feelings, I’d tell you, but there isn’t. The one exception might be someone who could summon such a degree of denial that they carry on […]

Diagnosed with Breast Cancer? Answers to Common Questions About Radiation

woman with cancer contemplating radiation

Physicians have used radiation therapy to treat breast cancer for well over a century. But even though it’s safe, some people facing the treatment have concerns. The first breast radiation treatment took place in Chicago in 1896, when an enterprising medical student irradiated an older woman in an X-ray tube factory on Halsted Street, according […]