Alzheimer’s Disease: Signs, Symptoms, and Causes by Jacob Dawson
According to the Alzheimer’s Association, more than 5 million people in the United States are afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease and it is the sixth leading cause of death in the country. My own life became personally impacted by Alzheimer’s when my grandmother was diagnosed. She began forgetting the names of relatives, leaving food in the […]
What is Anorexia by Michelle Boeckman
Anorexia Nervosa is an eating disorder that affects millions of people across the world. People suffering from this disorder are obsessed with their weight, have a distorted body image, and obsessed with what food they are consuming. Someone with Anorexia eats much less food than his or her body needs and in the most serious […]
What is Bipolar Disorder by Judii Tran
In society today, there is no such thing as normal. What one individual may think of as the norm may be completely odd to another, and this can be due to cultural circumstances, or just because they were raised in different home environments. While one person may be completely happy on the exterior at work […]
ALZHEIMERS DISEASE by Christina Baker
Alzheimer’s disease also commonly known as dementia begins to form in middle or late age. A person with Alzheimer’s is known to lose their mind, they begin to lose short-term memory, and they forget where they put things. Some are even known to forget who you are or could even turn on you because they […]
What is Glioblastoma Multiforme by Kara Friedman
There are over 120 different types of brain tumors. The most common brain tumors origionate in the glglile tissue of the brain. Glioblastoma Multiforme (also known as GBM), is the most common and most aggressive brain tumor that appears in humans. It is a fast-growing brain or spinal cord tumor, but it mostly appears in […]
How Many Women Die from Breast Cancer by Shenetra West
I chose breast cancer as my health topic. I chose this health topic because my grandmother was diagnosed back in August and I need to know as much as I possibly can. Over 200,000 American women are diagnosed, and almost 40,000 of them die from breast cancer. This disease is the second type of cancer […]
What is an Aortic Dissection by Eric Hegger
An aortic dissection occurs when you develop a tear in the inner layer of the aorta. Blood rushes out of the opening caused by the tear and into the middle layer of the aorta. This causes a separation between the middle and inner layers of the aorta. The aorta then swells up and can rupture […]
What to Know About Chemotherapy Treatment by Alyssa Arceri
There are many types of cancer a person may get throughout their lifetime: lung cancer, breast cancer, ovary cancer, etc. One thing most cancers have in common is a treatment that is offered to fight their cancer, Chemotherapy (chemo). Chemo is used to slow down cancer growth throughout a person’s body. Many different kinds of […]
What is Dysautonomia by Stacy Muehlher
Dysautonomia is a term used for dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system, which regulates many involuntary processes within the body. Heart rate, blood pressure, sweating, and the dilation of blood vessels are just some of the functions controlled by this complex system. Within our blood vessels and internal organs, nerves carry sensory impulses to our […]
What is Cholecystitis by Krysti Van
The topic that I chose to write my article on is Cholecystitis. Cholecystitis is the inflammation of the gallbladder. The gallbladder is a pear-shaped organ located on the right side of the body. The primary function of the gallbladder is that it contains bile, which is a digestive fluid, which is set in the small […]