Women’s health

Thyroid cancer is becoming one of the most unsettling medical trends of our time. The numbers climb even as medical technology improves, and the shift is not happening in the demographic most people would expect. Younger women are increasingly facing a disease once linked mostly with aging. Many discover it only after months or years …

Jessica Gilbert almost ignored the fever. Between packing for a long-awaited family vacation and managing life as a mother of two, she assumed her fatigue and congestion were just another seasonal bug. There was no reason to worry, at least not yet. But as the days passed, the symptoms began to shift in ways that …