Be Well: Author Clea Shearer on Determination to Beat Breast Cancer
Clea Shearer, author of 'The Home Edit: Stay Organized,' joined 'beWell' to talk about her experience in being diagnosed with a rare form of breast cancer. She also talked about the mental strain that a diagnosis and its following treatment that patients experience. "There really is no way but through and I knew with 100 percent certainty that I was going to beat this with the full force of every fiber in my being so I just basically prepared for battle and pushed every single day with that in mind," she said.
The CDC released a report with troubling statistics about the number of reported syphilis cases in newborns, with cases rising 10-fold in the last decade and nearly 32% in just one year.
Five-time Olympic gold medal swimmer Missy Franklin was at the top of her sport when a shoulder injury forced her to retire. After that, her father was diagnosed with a rare kidney disease that forced her family to come together to support him. Now Franklin is working with Otsuka Pharmaceutical to raise awareness of genetic diseases and ADPKD, the disease that affected her father.
Federal health officials are expanding an investigation into potentially lead-tainted pouches of apple cinnamon fruit puree marketed for children amid reports of more illnesses and additional product recalls.
