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Common Cold verses the Flu by Megan Karr
By CPR St. Louis at December 13, 2011 | 6:27 am | 0 Comment
The differences between a cold and the flu are not many and can be complicated to sort out. A cold is less severe than the flu. The flu can lead to other illnesses. While both are respiratory illnesses a cold is much milder than the flu, and usually does not consist of a fever. A cold typically beg (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({ more...
Melanoma by Jane Rolley
By CPR St. Louis at December 12, 2011 | 7:59 am | 0 Comment
Melanoma, sometimes called cutaneous melanoma or malignant melanoma, is a cancer of cells called melanocytes, which are cells that produce melanin or color of skin pigment and may be found in the eye, digestive tract, and lymph nodes. Melanoma can affect anyone and is a serious skin cancer that varies in color, size, and shape. Risk factors for developing melanoma more...
Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) by Chuck Wensler
By CPR St. Louis at December 10, 2011 | 8:04 am | 0 Comment
Heart Failure is a condition where the heart is unable to pump enough oxygen and nutrient-rich blood to meet the body’s demands for normal tissue functioning. In the early stages, the heart will compensate and respond by enlarging to hold more blood with an increase in muscle tissue and a faster pumping action while combining this with vasoconstriction to increase more...
Cardiomyopathy by Nicole Deckard
By CPR St. Louis at December 9, 2011 | 11:18 am | 0 Comment
Cardiomyopathy is a disease of the heart muscle. There are sometimes no signs and or symptoms of the disease. Other times you can have symptoms such as shortness of breath, trouble breathing, fatigue, and swelling of feet, ankles, legs, abdomen, and veins of the neck. Some types of Cardiomyopathy are Dilated Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, Restrictive more...
Alcohol Decreases Risk of Diabetes Type II
By CPR St. Louis at December 6, 2011 | 6:40 am | 0 Comment
A study that followed over 80,000 women for 26 years found that women who eat a lot of refined carbs might offset their risk of type 2 diabetes by drinking a moderate amount of alcohol. Eating a high carb diet without drinking alcohol increased the risk of developing diabetes by 30 percent. But, those who imbibed in a moderate amount of alcohol decreased that risk. more...
