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Alana Biggers

Chicago
As seen in: Healthline Media, Healthline, MDPI, Medical News Today, JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association), Greatist, South Florida Reporter, The Westside Gazette, Bezzy MS, Bezzy BC
Board certified Internal Medicine physician; Epidemiologist; Researcher with an interest in disparities and policy aimed to achieve health equity.
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Minimizing, Exaggerating, or Just Speaking My Truth?

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By Monica Lynne, Alana Biggers
| Bezzy MS
Even with a diagnosis, it can be hard to know when our pain is “enough” to name, especially when it’s invisible or fluctuating. For most of my life, I measured pain the way I thought I was supposed to: silently, stoically, and without complaint. I’ve winced behind closed doors, breathed through sharp pangs in public, and told loved ones, “It’s not that bad,” even when it was. Not to deceive them, but to protect them. Somewhere along the way, I learned that if I was still standing, I must be fine.
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Unexpected Lessons from MS

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By Monica Lynne, Alana Biggers
| Bezzy MS
The final time I opened my pill bottle of medication, I didn’t expect it to feel like a sad goodbye. I’d just come home from a neurologist appointment, where we’d officially decided to transition me off this oral medication I’d been taking for years. Mayzent was no longer supporting my needs as my MS progressed, said my neuro. Plus, I felt ready for a new DMT (disease-modifying therapy), especially since the latest meds have a more relaxed dosing schedule than Mayzent’s daily pill.
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How We Can Do Better

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By Stephanie Orford, Alana Biggers
| bezzycopd.com
Did you know that medical treatments sometimes don’t work as well for women because they were only tested on men? It’s more common than you might think. We need more women in health research; here’s how you can help. Women’s bodies are profoundly different from men’s at every level — from body composition and functioning to tissue makeup and hormone levels, right down to gene expression and cellular function. Yet before the mid-1990s, most research was done on male participants.
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