Guillain-Barre Syndrome Guillain-Barre syndrome is a disorder in which the body’s immune system attacks part of the peripheral nervous system. I interviewed a patient, Yvonne, who was diagnosed with Guillain-Barre when she was only 11. She struggled with the disease, went into remission, and the relapsed even worse. She is now in remission and has several checkups a year. The first

Health Topics The number one health concern among Americans today is health insurance. The entire population regardless of income, ethnicity, gender, and age is effected by health insurance or the lack there of. The type of health insurance an individual has determines the type of medical attention that will be received. If a person has really good insurance i.e. Blue Cross Blue Shield,

Heart Attack A blockage in the heart's arteries may reduce or completely cut off the blood supply to a portion of the heart. This can cause a blood clot to form and totally stop blood flow in a coronary artery, resulting in a heart attack, which is also called an acute myocardial infarction (MI). Irreversible injury to the heart muscle usually occurs if medical help is not received pr

Heart Attack Myocardial infractions Coronary arteries are blood vessels that deliver oxygenated blood to the heart. All muscles in the heart require oxygen to operate correctly. When there is restriction of blood flow to the heart, the coronary arteries become blocked or narrowed. When the heart cannot get oxygen, the heart muscle is damaged and heart attacks occur. A heart attack is

Hiv The HIV Epidemic The HIV virus, which causes AIDS, was first recognized as a new and distinct clinical entity in 1981. Since then it has become a universal epidemic concerning all of mankind.(3) This epidemic is caused by the human immunodeficiency virus, also known as HIV. HIV belongs to the retrovirus family, a family of RNA viruses noted for possession of a viral reverse trans

How To Break Bad Habits There are many ways to break bad habits, different techniques work well with various bad habits. How difficult the bad habit is to break depends on what it is, for example, it is a lot easier to quit biting your fingernails then to quit smoking cigarettes. The technique I will explain works well with smaller bad habits such as biting your fingernails, or cracking

Abs Ab Exercises While fitness equipment can certainly help tone your abs, there are a variety of exercises you can do without any equipment at all. When training your abs, it's a good idea to break down the abs into three areas: the upper abs (located below the chest), the lower abs (located above the belly button) and the obliques (located on the sides of the waist). Never sacrifice

Juice Therapy Juice Therapy There are many alternative types of therapies one being juice therapy. This therapy involves the intake of a fruit or raw vegetable. A person may drink juice preventively to stay healthy, to treat a medical condition like cancer, or to produce a certain outcome, such as strengthening the immune system. Just like it is said that orange juice can help lower yo

Just Say NO Just Say No! Tobacco use and alcohol abuse are extremely widespread in today's society. Unfortunately our society faces a greater problem. This problem goes deeper than alcohol abuse, tobacco use by minors, or even the increase in cocaine use over the last decade. It is natural for members of our society to want to help one another. It is therefore logical that many o

Just Say No The DARE Program taught me I have the right to be drug-free and safe. If someone is telling me to use drugs, I just say "NO" ! Deputy Cotrill taught me different ways to handle peer pressure. I can ignore the person, avoid the places where drugs will be used, or I can also change the subject. I have learned that drugs can give you cancer, lung disease and gum disease. Drug

Just Say Yes Just Say Yes For years now people have been told to say no to drugs, because drugs are bad, people that use drugs are the slugs of society, and it is simply wrong to do drugs. What if this theory was reevaluated' What if drugs, in particular marijuana, weren’t t an illegal part of society' The United States has taken steps to stop the use of drugs by making them illegal

Kidney Stones A kidney stone is a lump that can vary from the size of as small as a grain of sand to as large as a golf ball. Recently kidney stones have become more popular. 7 to 21 people out of every 10,000 have a kidney stone attack each year. 80% of kidney stones are amongst males the other 20% of course is females. Causes of kidney stones varies. You can get it from genetic

Legalization Of Marijuana California Proposition 215 In November 1996 the residents of California approved Proposition 215, which is an initiative that makes marijuana legally available as a medicine in the United States for the first time since the 1930’s. Under the new law, patients or their primary caregivers that possess or cultivate marijuana for medicinal use are exempted fro

ADD Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) is a problem that affects 5% to 10% of all children. ADD affects more children than any other childhood problems with the exception of asthma. It is estimated to be the largest single cause for first referrals to child guidance clinics throughout the country. Those cases make up as many as 40% of those clinic visits. Many ADD cases are not diagnosed b

Management Information System In 1995, the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the United States reported that 60 percent of new workplace illnesses were Repetitive Strain Injuries. They also found that in 1993, RSIs cost employers $20 billion dollars in workers compensation claims, and more than $100 billion dollars to pay for all of the indirect costs of RSIs such as lost work time and decr

LSD Lysergic acid diethlyamide (LSD) more commonly known in our culture as “acid,” belongs to a group of illicit drugs classified as hallucinogens. Hallucinogens, when ingested, can cause severe hallucinations that may last anywhere from six to twelve hours depending on purity. Hallucinations are by definition “profound distortions in a person’s perceptions of reality.” The use of hal

Lyme Lyme Arthritis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lyme disease is a tick-transmitted inflammatory disorder characterized by an early focal skin lesion, and subsequently a growing red area on the skin (erythema chronicum migrans or ECM). The disorder may be followed weeks later by neurological, heart or joint abnormalities. Symptomatology ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The first symptom of Lyme di

Mineral Importance of MINERALS All nutrients such as vitamins, proteins, enzymes, amino acids, carbohydrates, fats, sugars, oils, etc. require minerals for proper cellular function. All bodily processes depend upon the action and presence of minerals. Minerals are more important to nutrition than vitamins. Vitamins are required for every bodily biochemical process. However, vitamins c

Malnutrition Malnutrition is an unhealthy physical condition resulting either from a faulty or inadequate diet (i.e. a diet that does not supply normal quantities of all nutrients) or by the body’s inability to absorb or metabolize nutrients. Primary malnutrition results when the body gets too much food, not enough food, or the wrong kinds of food. When certain foods containing one or

Malnutrition OMNI Micronutrient Fact Sheets: Philippines KEY POINTS Micronutrient malnutrition -- an insufficiency of nutrients such as vitamin A, iron, and iodine in the diet -- affects more than 2 billion people worldwide. Deficiencies of these micronutrients are problems of public health significance in the Philippines, occurring mostly among preschool children, and pregn

Marijuana The use of marijuana among teenagers, although viewed as harmless, is actually very detrimental to their lives in many ways. Four of the most harmful possibilities that exist are, the link between marijuana and crime, the health risks involved, the family problems that arise, and the fact that marijuana has been known to lead to other drugs. Although these problems do

Aerobics and Weight Training Aerobics and Weight Training As most of you already know, fitness is usually measured by the untrained eye on the basis of how a person looks and their muscle definition. For anyone it’s hard to get muscle definition until you lose weight, and that might be hard enough, more so for women then men. Women feel that they have a bigger need for physical fitne

My Ways To Relax My Ways to Relax Relaxation is something that most people in the world do not get to have very often. When I get the chance to relax, there are three things that I enjoy doing to calm myself down: Listening to soft music, pampering myself, and sleeping are my three favourite things to do. Although some people prefer exercising to relieve themselves of stress, I fin

New Drugs Will Target Cancer Cell Immortality British scientists said Friday they were using computer models to develop anti-cancer drugs designed to stop malignant cells from dividing uncontrollably. The drugs target an enzyme called telomerase -- the secret to cancer cell immortality. Telomerase is found in more than 80 percent of cancer cells, but is usually missing in healthy tis

The Spread if Aids in Developing Countries The Spread of AIDS in Developing Countries In several developing countries, IV drug use has been a main cause by which HIV is spread. The governments of these countries have been resistant in acknowledging this problem and hesitant to implement strategies in order to limit the spread of this fatal disease. One of the problems developi

What to do About Flu What To Do About Flu Each winter, millions of people suffer from the "flu." For most people, the best treatment is a few days of bed rest, aspirin for fever, and plenty of water, fruit juice, soft drinks, and other liquids. Flu-the short name for influenza-is a viral infection of the nose, throat, and lungs. It is usually a mild disea

Emergency Contraceptives Emergency contraceptives are not the same as RU-486, a form of non-surgical pregnancy termination recently approved for use in the US. EC is actually a series of high-dosage hormone pills, estrogen and progesterone, given in two doses twelve hours apart, as soon as possible after the unprotected intercourse occurred—preferably within 24 hours and no later than 72

You Are What You Eat “You are what you eat”, goes a famous saying. If that’s truly the case, then a lot of Americans would appear to be unhealthy, chemically treated, commercially raised slabs of animal flesh. While that is not a particularly pleasant thought, it is nonetheless a description of the typical American omnivore who survives on the consumption of big macs and greasy french fr

Birth Control Birth Control Birth Control is defined as various ways used to prevent pregnancy from occurring. Birth Control has been a concern for humans for thousands of years. The first contraception devices were mechanical barriers in the vagina that prevented the male sperm from fertilizing the female egg. Other methods of birth control that were used in the vagina were sea sp

Crack Down “Crack” Down Americans like looking for the easy way out or a quick fix. A performance enhancer or weight loss supplement can offer this. Most companies know this and advertise dramatic weight loss or improved performance in a bottle. Along with the advertisement there is a picture of a person who was overweight and out of shape and thirty days later the same person is mus