SEVERE HEALTH CONDITIONS

Kidneys are essential to having a healthy body. They filter waste products such as ammonia, urea, uric acid, creatine, and amino acids from the blood. They also help remove excess water and salt from the body. Apart from excretion, kidneys also play an essential role in regulating electrolyte balance, blood …

Breast cancer starts as one malignant cell. The cell divides and becomes two malignant cells, the two divide again and become four, and so on. In most cases, one division takes between 30 and 60 days. Signs and symptoms usually start showing after the 30th division. You can’t detect it …

The spleen is a small organ located under the rib cage and close to the stomach (left upper abdomen). Functions of the spleen in the body include recycling old red blood cells and fighting certain infections.  The spleen plays a crucial role in the body, but some people are born …

Cancer is the second leading cause of death after heart disease. There are more than 100 different types of cancer. Lung cancer, skin cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer, and colorectal cancer are the most common in the US. In this post, we will focus on cancer prevention and screening. Researchers …

The goal of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) eradication has not yet been achieved despite the use of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs. ARVs don’t treat HIV. They keep the viral load under control. They lower the level of HIV in the blood so that it cannot damage the immune system. When an …

The brain is one of the most important organs in the human body. Computers have a Central Processing Unit (CPU) that controls all the other parts of the computer. The human body is like a modern computer. The brain is the central processing unit of your body. Instead of a …

Prostate cancer is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer in men in the United States. It is also the third leading cause of cancer death in males. There are more than 27,000 deaths from this cancer annually.  The primary tumor does not cause all these deaths. It is the formation …

Green tea is one of those rare beverages that is pretty much universally accepted by science as a healthy one. There are some overblown claims over the internet. In this post, we are going to parse through and figure out what is what. You will also learn how to make …

Cervical cancer is the 4th most common type of cancer in women. In the United States, 14,000 women are diagnosed with this type of cancer. About 4,300 women die from cervical cancer each year in the US. The issue is even bigger worldwide because about 260,000 women die from this …

Lung cancer is the most fatal and deadly type of cancer. It contributes to one in every five deaths globally. Recent statistics reveal that there are 1.59 million deaths from lung cancer per year worldwide.  The only good thing about lung cancer is the fact you can lower your risk. …