Understanding Alzheimer's Disease

Image is from www.bbc.comIt is normal that with age, elderly people tend to forget simple things that otherwise were very routine and common to them. When this starts to occur more frequently or more major things are forgotten (like where a person lives, the names of...

Misunderstandings of Cancers

Infographics from anidea.comCancer is a disease that is caused by the division of abnormal cells in the body that are uncontrolled. Some types of cancer cause tumors in the body, while there are other types of cancer, such as leukemia, that do not. There are some...

Understanding Breast Cancer

Inforgraphic from the CDC Breast cancer, like any other cancer, occurs when a mutation or abnormal change deforms the genes responsible for healthy cell growth. Such a change could lead to uncontrolled or undesirable cell growth. The cells that result from this also...

Risk factors of type 2 diabetes

Image from the liberatehealth.us Factors Listed As a brief checklist, run over the following items and see how many describe your lifestyle: Diabetes In The Family History Gestational Diabetes In Family History Ethnicity Bad Nutrition In Pregnancy High Blood Pressure...

Complications for Type 2 diabetes

The onset of Type II Diabetes occurs after adulthood, and usually between ages of 40 and 50. The causative factors and the treatment, however, is very much the same as for juvenile diabetes: Daily blood sugar level tests and injections of insulin and/or oral...