10 year old Brandon Rayner from Las Vegas has recently survived a brain tumor - but now he is facing yet another medical illness that could take his life. Brandon is now fighting off leukemia and needs bone marrow to help him survive. In an effort to save his son Moe Rayner has created a bone marrow drive.
Blood pressure is the forces in the bodies’ arteries when the heart beats and when the heart is at rest. Systolic pressure is when the heart beats and diastolic pressure is when it is at rest. Blood pressure is measures in millimeters of mercury. When taken the systolic number is always written on top of the diastolic number.
It is important that you test your cholesterol every few months to make sure that it is at a healthy level. The procedure that is used to test the cholesterol is called fasting lipoprotein profile. This test is done after a 12 hour period of not consuming any liquids, foods, or medications of any kind.
Doctors recommend that anyone who is over the age of 20 take this test every 5 year. The results of the test is based on four different things; HDl, LDL, total blood cholesterol, and triglyceride levels.
Those who have been diagnosed with coronary artery disease are at a high risk for heart attacks. Yet, just because of this risk does not mean that there isn’t a way for them to prevent it from happening. In order to do that you need to make drastic life changing choices.
Healthy lifestyle choices to help prevent heart attack include:
Alzheimer’s disease is a disorder of the brain. It was named after Alois Alzheimer a German physician after he was able to discover what it is and what it can do to people back in 1906. Since then scientists have been able to discover more about the effects that Alzheimer’s disease has on people.
Summer is right around the corner and women are gearing up for some fun in the sun. They are buying their new bikinis, putting on some sun tan lotion, and beautifying themselves with the latest lip gloss.
Whatever you girls do it is important that you stay away from the cheap stuff. Studies show that the cheaper brand of lip gloss might be fun – but they do not have any SPF. This means that wearing them could actually increase your risk for skin cancer.
A vaginal yeast infection is one of the most annoying problems that a women has to deal with in her life. A vaginal yeast infection is when there is an irritation and infection around the vagina area. It is caused when there is too much Candida. Candida is a bacteria or yeast that lives in the vagina in usually small amounts – but when too many of it grows it can cause an infection.
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For years doctors have warned us about the effects that obesity can have on our bodies. It can bring on heart disease and high blood pressure – but what we didn’t know was that being overweight around the age of 40 can actually put you at a high risk of getting dementia or other forms of Alzheimer’s disease.
Researchers at Yale University have been working on creating a unique blood test for ovarian cancer. Their test will be able to accomplish something that no other test has been able to do – spot the disease while it is in the early stages of development and has a chance being cured. For now the phase II study test has an accuracy of 99%.
It’s that time of year again where everyone is having the sore throats and the dreaded cough that are the common and annoying symptoms of the cold. What we need to do is get the right medicine in us to get through it fast. That way we can get back to our daily routine.