Medical Conditions, Diseases, Symptoms and Signs In Plain English
A new article published in the Archives of Internal Medicine asks a very controversial question. Do breast cancer tumors go away on their own? In order to try to prove or disprove this theory researchers performed a study. The article shows that at least one type of cancer that was discovered through screening sometimes will disappear. Neoroblastoma is a very rare childhood tumor.
14 year old D’Zhana Simmons is not your ordinary teenager. Last Spring she and her parents discovered that she had an enlarged heart that was not strong enough to pump blood. The only way that she would be able to survive is with a heart transplant. So she and her family traveled from their home in Clinton, South Carolina to Holtz Children’s Hospital in Miami, Florida.
When you get pregnant everyone tells you to eat for two – you and your baby. So naturally when I got pregnant and began to do just that. That’s when the doctors told me that I shouldn’t do that and that if I gained too much weight they would have to put me on a diet.
Researchers from England and Germany have discovered new links to male pattern baldness. This will be the second genetic connection that has been made when related to hair loss in the majority of men and a few women as they grow older. Felix F. Brockschmidt from the University of Bonn was one of the leading authors of the report that was published October 12th in the journal of Nature Genetics.
A report that was published in the October issue of Pediatrics has led many doctors to believe that exotic pets (rodents, reptiles, monkeys, etc.) may pose very real health risks to children and should be kept away from them. They believe that many of these animals could spread many diseases to children because they have weak immune systems.