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What is Crohn’s Disease by Aisha Colclasure
By CPR St. Louis at December 23, 2011 | 6:48 am | 0 Comment
Crohn's Disease is often silent. The people it occupies often are too embarrassed of its symptoms to tell their peers about it because it is not considered socially acceptable to discuss your bowel habits in public or with people other than our doctors. Sadly, sometimes even people affected by this disease are too embarrassed to seek medical help. (adsbygoogle = more...
Type II Diabetes Mellitus by Lacey Stewart
By CPR St. Louis at December 22, 2011 | 6:34 am | 0 Comment
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention 2010 fact sheet, 8.3 % of Americans have diabetes, and an alarming 1.9 million were diagnosed in 2010 alone. Close to 18.8 million people have been diagnosed and 7 million have gone undiagnosed in the United States (“U.S. Department” 2011). The prevalence of the disease is rising at an alarming rate due to more...
What is Immunization by Lareina Hembrock
By CPR St. Louis at December 21, 2011 | 5:09 am | 0 Comment
Immunization has come such a long way over the years. The development of the vaccine kicked off a new era in health that the world had never seen. Vaccination discovery was a miracle to the world; and it is still practiced today. It is due to immunization that we have been able to eliminate certain vaccine preventable diseases and reduce our risk of health pandemics. more...
Colon Cancer by Mary Jo Ahr
By CPR St. Louis at December 19, 2011 | 7:35 am | 0 Comment
Colon cancer is cancer that has developed in the tissues of the longest section of the large intestine, the colon. The large intestine is the lower part of your digestive tract. Colon cancer most often starts in the mucus lining within the bowel. Historically, this cancer begins as small "bumps" that have grown along the lining. These bumps are called polyps and are more...
Asthma by Emily Meininger
By CPR St. Louis at December 14, 2011 | 6:27 am | 0 Comment
Asthma makes breathing very difficult because it is a chronic disease of the airways. Asthma causes inflammation of air passageways that carry oxygen to the lungs. Due to the inflammation, the symptoms of asthma are coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath, and chest tightness. Asthma can also be referred to as bronchial asthma. There are three major features of asthma more...
