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What every woman should know about breast cancer.

Did you know that breast cancer is the only cancer that is screened for in women? It is recommended that all women have a baseline mammogram done at the age of 35 and have a yearly mammogram starting at 40. This means that doctors not only screen for breast cancer, but they do it on a yearly basis.

The fact is that every woman is at high risk for breast cancer. Dr. Beth DuPree of St. Mary’s Medical Center in Newtown, PA spoke at the “A Day for Breast Cancer Awareness” recently at Bucks County Community College. What she told the audience was shocking; around 75 percent of the breast cancer patients that she sees in her practice had no family history of breast cancer.

Dr. DuPree had blown a huge Continue Reading

Detected in its early stages, prostate cancer can be effectively treated and cured. In most men, prostate cancer grows very slowly: most men will never know they have the condition. Prostate cancer is deadly but can be cured if it’s caught early enough.

At an advanced age, the risks of surgery for prostate cancer or other more radical treatments may actually be worse than the disease. It’s estimated that approximately 234,460 men in the U.S. will be diagnosed with it this year, and approximately 27,350 will die of the disease. The prostate gland is located directly beneath the bladder and in front of the rectum.

One of the most common symptoms is the inability to urinate at all. Additional symptoms that may be associated with this disease are bone pain or Continue Reading

Working in the ER as an emergency RN I have been exposed to patients with asthma on a regular basis. I have a good understanding of this disease and the potential for life threatening attacks. In order to understand what asthma is, you need to have a basic understanding of breathing. When we breath, air is brought into the nose where it is warmed, filtered and humidified and then air passes to the throat. From the throat air makes its way into the trachea (also known as the windpipe). The trachea then divides into two large tubes known as the right and left bronchus. These two tubes then divide into many smaller tubes and actually branch into many small airways known as bronchioles.

In patients with asthma the air passages become swollen and inflammed and become narrowed. As Continue Reading

I am autistic. I am bipolar. I have physical disabilities. These things are fairly obvious and once someone gets to know me better, they know the disabilities do not stop there.

Yet, even after getting to know me, most people just see me as autistic, bipolar, mentally disabled, physically disabled, crazy, insane, someone who should be locked up in a mental institution.

What so many fail to see is my other qualities: I am also a daughter, a sister, an aunt, a cousin. I am a poet, a writer, a bookworm, a great friend.

Living with the knowledge you have 14 or more things wrong with you, that is very difficult. Every day, you fight against what those disabilities do to you and how they affect not only you, but those you are closest to. Every that one of those Continue Reading

Diabetes Mellitus is a group of serious metabolic diseases that are increasingly affecting more and more people around the world. Despite our growing awareness and understanding of this disease, its prevalence continues to rise almost uncontrollably. In 2000, the World Health Organization estimated that at least 171 million people around the world are suffering from diabetes and according to recent projections, of all the children born in the year 2000, one in three will suffer from diabetes in their lifetime.

Within the human body, whenever carbohydrates such as bread, rice and cake are ingested, it is absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract as glucose. While glucose is a highly volatile molecule, it is also a major source of energy for our body. In particular, the brain and Continue Reading