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Staying Physically Active Leads to Better Health by Linda Lackey
By CPR Nashville, TN at March 1, 2013 | 8:28 am | 0 Comment
From the moment of conception, certain family genes we possibly have inherited have the potential to affect our health from the very beginning and continue to affect us throughout our lives. Regardless of what health issues may confront us, i.e. diabetes, heart disease, and hypertension, we have the ability to make choices that could help ease, improve, and even possibly more...
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Cancer Of The Lung by Tarik Kavazovic
By CPR Nashville, TN at February 27, 2013 | 7:23 am | 0 Comment
If I were to tell you the biggest killer in the United States could easily be stopped, you would probably beat me up and throw me in jail. Nevertheless, it is true. In 2012, 226,160 people were diagnosed with lung cancer and only 40,000 of them survived. The killer? Smoking. Cigarettes contain 7,000 chemicals and about forty of them are poisons, yet people still won’t more...
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Type 1 or Type 2 Diabetes by Jacqueline Rohrer
By CPR Nashville, TN at February 21, 2013 | 7:28 am | 4 Comments
Many people confuse type 1 diabetes with the more common type 2 diabetes. The significant difference between the two is that while type 2 is more predictable, there is no prevention, screening, or specifically known cause for type 1 “Juvenile” diabetes. Both have direct relationships to the pancreas, which is an insulin-secreting organ dorsal to the stomach. type 1 more...
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Types of Lung Cancer by Michele Singler
By CPR Nashville, TN at February 17, 2013 | 10:17 am | 2 Comments
As you may know, lung cancer is a very tedious disease. There are three different types of lung cancer; non-small cell lung cancer, small cell lung cancer, and lung carcinoid tumor. Knowing which type of cancer you have is crucial because it will affect the type of treatment you do or do not get and it may affect your prognosis. Lung cancer is the most leading cause of more...
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What is Kawasaki’s Disease by Stacey Thornhill
By CPR Nashville, TN at February 13, 2013 | 6:13 am | 1 Comments
Kawasaki’s disease, also known as Kawasaki’s syndrome, is an autoimmune disease primarily affecting children under the age of five. A pediatrician in Japan, Tomisaku Kawasaki, first described the disease in 1967. It was not until 1976 that the first cases were reported outside of Japan in Hawaii. In 2006 the number of hospitalizations in the US for Kawasaki’s was more...
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