Lupus is a chronic, autoimmune disease which causes inflammation of various parts of the body, especially the skin, joints, blood and kidneys. The body's immune system normally makes proteins called antibodies to protect the body against viruses, bacteria and other foreign materials. Th...

The Grange Family enjoys eating together as a family whenever they can. But an issue for them is the health problems of each of the individual family members, and being able to prepare one dish that is applicable and satisfying to each individuals needs. The goal is to prepare a budget family meal t...

Potassium, which is the nineteenth element in the Periodic Table, influences the health of all living things. Whether it be used in a medicine or in certain amounts in dietary supplements, it helps all living things to improve the quality of life. Potassium has many uses, ranging from those of e...

Rheumatoid Arthritis Autoimmune diseases are illnesses that occur when the body's tissue mistakenly attacks its own immune system. Patients with these types of diseases have antibodies in their blood that target their own body's tissues. Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune dise...

Late one afternoon, a lady was driving home in the rush hour traffic. The last thing she needed was a pounding headache. While she was stopped, she dug in her purse for some aspirin to relieve her headache. She chugged it down with the Pepsi sitting by the seat. Her only worry was to relieve h...

The Cardiovascular System-Blood Pressure and The ECG Blood pressure is the force of blood distending the arterial walls. Blood pressure is measured in the Brachial artery using a sphygmomanometer, the average resting bp in a normal person is 120/80. The higher number is the systolic blood pres...

CIGARETTE SMOKING AND THE BODY Tobacco is consumed worldwide everyday by millions of people. Many people cannot prevent themselves from smoking because tobacco contains a drug called nicotine that makes them feel as if they need it in order to function normally. Nicotine is a substance found in t...

CIGARETTE SMOKING AND THE BODY Tobacco is consumed worldwide everyday by millions of people. Many people cannot prevent themselves from smoking because tobacco contains a drug called nicotine that makes them feel as if they need it in order to function normally. Nicotine is a substance found in t...

The Creation of a Child The birth of a child is a beautiful thing. Most parents will do anything for their children, and when their child's life is threatened, it seems like the parents of that child life is also threatened. Every day children are born with deadly diseases, nutritional def...

High altitude has long been known to have effects on humans. High altitude is classified as being between 1500 meters to 3500 meters above sea level; very high altitude is classified as being between 3500 meters to 5500 meters, while extreme altitude is anything above 5500 meters (Wilkerson...

Imagine if you can a time and place where in one split second life as you know it is changed forever. The date is August 6, 1945, and you are living in Hiroshima. Around 8:16 a.m., without a single warning, an A-bomb explodes 580 meters above the city that you are living in and four different ty...

Platelets are flattened discs that are round from above and spindle shaped section. Megakaryocytes are very active cells that continually make proteins, enzymes, and membranes. But instead of getting bigger. They just shed small membrane-enclosed packets of cytoplasm into circulation. This is where ...

INTRODUCTION: The body is constituted of different types of cells which unite together to form contrary tissues. Tissues are a group of similar cells and their intercellular substance specialized to perform a specific function; primary tissue types of the body are epithelial, connective, muscle, an...

SMOKING AND ITS EFFECT ON AN ATHLETE Smoking is a habit that is taken up by almost 30% of the growing teenage population . It not only plagues the young but also the old. When cigarette smoking was first introduced, it was meant to be a pastime. It was also considered to be 'cool',...