Tom Corwin
Science and Medicine Reporter at The Augusta Chronicle
Contributor at Post and Courier
Tom Corwin covers Health for the Post and Courier in Charleston because he can't get a real job.
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2 days ago |
postandcourier.com | Tom Corwin
MANNING — Megan Adams used to loathe this time of year. "I really dreaded Mother's Day," the 28-year-old said. She's a part of a group no mom wants to be in, having lost three children — two before they were viable and another 25 days after birth. People would tell her that she still could call herself a mom.
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2 days ago |
postandcourier.com | Tom Corwin
ROUND O — Koree Miller’s face brightens and her green eyes widen as she answers what used to be an awkward question for her. “I’m off everything,” said Miller, 31, who is in recovery from opioid and heroin addiction. “I’ve been completely off everything since November,” including medications used to treat addiction, as she builds on more than four years clean. It wasn’t easy for her to claw her way back from a world that had trapped her since age 18.
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3 days ago |
postandcourier.com | Tom Corwin
MANNING — Megan Adams used to loathe this time of year. "I really dreaded Mother's Day," the 28-year-old said. She's a part of a group no mom wants to be in, having lost three children — two before they were viable and another 25 days after birth. People would tell her that she still could call herself a mom. "But a part of me felt like I didn't deserve to be called a mother," Megan said. Olivia would change all of that, but only at the end of a long struggle.
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4 days ago |
postandcourier.com | Tom Corwin
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1 week ago |
postandcourier.com | Tom Corwin
CHARLESTON — Dr. Sara Fernandez sat with her three-year-old son, Gael, as he went through a battery of tests that eventually determined he was on the autism spectrum. But as she watched, she felt a growing sense that the conclusions would be the same for her. “I was like, hold on, for all of these, I’m like that, too,” she said. Her son was diagnosed in October 2024. Two months later, her therapist confirmed Fernandez’s own diagnosis.
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For those alarmed by a seeming rise in autism diagnoses, the truth is many who are now adults were missed as children, particularly girls: https://t.co/G5sf0YquLQ
The "Holy Grail" of Alzheimer's tests, searching the blood for telltale biomarkers, is coming closer. SC patients will soon be able to get blood test to help with diagnosis. https://t.co/VIaCSAyP5F
Celebrating 'problem solving': MUSC highlights innovations large and small https://t.co/vTD1Hv4Yl5 via @postandcourier