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Unless you have hemophilia, you may have noticed that when you get a small cut, it forms a scab and heals up. That scab is formed by blood clotting agents in your blood called platelets....

• Lactose Intolerance

  A typical Western diet includes lots of dairy. Pizza, ice cream, sour cream, butter, cheese… it all sounds delicious, but our ancestors did not used to eat these things (and it wasn’t just becaus...

• Obesity

  Obesity is currently an extremely hot topic. New studies come out each year declaring that more and more Americans are overweight, and public health initiatives spring up...

• Carpal Tunnel Syndrom

  The carpal tunnel is a “passageway” through which ten tendons and an important nerve pass from the forearm to the palm. This nerve, the median nerve, carries signals...

• Strokes

  You may already know that a stroke is a very variable condition. Some people are completely debilitated after a stroke, while others can still walk and talk almost perfectly afterward....

• Heart Attacks

  To understand what a heart attack is, lets start by looking at a healthy heart. The heart is made up mostly of muscle. It functions as a pump, getting oxygen-rich blood from your lungs...

• Multiple Sclerosis

  Multiple Sclerosis, also known as MS, is a chronic disease that attacks a person's central nervous system, symptoms range from numbness, to much more serious conditions such as paralysis and blin...

• type 2 Diabetes

  Type 2 Diabetes, is the nation's most common classification of Diabetes according to http://www.diabetes.org. People diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes are not able to produce enough insulin in their...

• type 1 Diabetes

  Type 1 Diabetes, is one of two different classifications of Diabetes. According to http://www.diabetes.org. People afflicted with this type, are unable to produce any insulin, a hormone necessary for ...

• Schizophrenia

  The National Institute of Mental Health states that Schizophrenia is a severe, and devastating mental disorder, in which the person affected suffers from extremely paranoid thoughts. People afflicted ...

• Diabetes

  Diabetes is a disease that is gaining more, and more of the spotlight in America's healthcare play. More than 23.6 million adults and children in the United States have been diagnosed with the co...

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