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Dr. Aiya Aboubakr

Dr. Aiya Aboubakr is an internal medicine resident at New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center, and a contributor to the ABC News Medical Unit.

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For patients suffering with infertility, honesty may be a doctor’s best treatment

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A new treatment could deal '1, 2 punch' to Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and other incurable cancers

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