When just one abnormal plasma cell in the bone marrow – the soft, blood-producing tissue that fills in the center of most of the bones – suddenly begins to multiply rapidly, multiple myeloma results.
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Type-2 diabetics develop their chronic metabolic disease – in most cases – from being overweight and even morbidly obese, eating junk food and leading a sedentary life. Until recently it was thought to be irreversible but manageable by taking medications and/or injecting insulin, exercising and observing a restricted, healthful diet.
The supermarkets are now full of products without gluten. Many of my friends who do not suffer from celiac disease have started to buy and prepare them for the whole family. I wonder whether non-celiacs eating grains without gluten or a reduced amount of gluten could be harmful.
Nurses around the world will celebrate the 200th anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth in May 2020. The British woman – known as the Lady with the Lamp – is regarded as the founder of modern nursing.
In fact, researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem together will colleagues at the University of Chicago and the University of California at Los Angeles have found that if you’re asking for an end-of-year salary hike or bonus, it will be more forthcoming if he or she is NOT your friend. Nepotism is a no-no, at least if it becomes public knowledge.
More than three decades after plague of the AIDS virus (HIV) became known, it is still with us and has killed millions of people, most of them in the developing world. Fortunately, if patients have access to the anti-AIDS “cocktail” of drugs, the highly infectious disorder has become a chronic disease rather than one that kills its victims.
Black holes sound very ominous, and they are – even though no human will ever see one. A black hole is a place in space where gravity pulls so much that even light can’t escape from it. The gravity, according to the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), is so strong because matter has been squeezed into a tiny space; this can happen when a star is dying.
People who are admitted to a medical center for an emergency or even a planned operation typically worry that the surgical team will be skilled and rested. It doesn’t enter their mind that the hospital may be at risk because of malicious cyber attacks on its sensitive electronic equipment.
Playing high school football changes the teenage brain, said the researchers, who found in an MRI (magnetic resonance instrument) study that repeated blows to the head – even during a single season of football or soccer – can cause microscopic changes in the brains of young players.
Women who undergo a mastectomy due to breast cancer and those more fortunate who merely want to augments their bust have for years been undergoing surgery for the insertion of breast implants filled with silicone or saline (salt water).
Despite extensive research, breast cancer remains one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths in women in the Western world. One case of such a malignancy can be very different from another. Some patients undergo surgery and recover, while other women (and, in one in 100 cases, men) struggle with radiotherapy, chemotherapy and immunotherapy but still have difficulty fighting it because the tumors are resistant to treatment and spread to other organs.
Many people, in fact, use music in the hope that it fights sleep difficulties, according to a study published this month the open-access journal PLoS ONE.
There is a no greater tragedy than when a parent buries his or her child; it’s again the natural course of things. When this results from incurable disease, it is agonizing. But when the death results from an unintentional – and preventable – accident, the tragedy is absolutely heart rending and the cause of great guilt for the rest of the parent’s life, even if not present at the scene of the accident.
The Bible is not shy about discussing unmentionable, unpleasant and embarrassing subjects, even what to do with human excrement. Strict rules of Jewish law address all aspects of everyday life including public sanitation and personal hygiene. These rules are very important in Jewish practices, demanding a high standard of public health required of leaders as well as the individual.
Scabies is caused by a small mite called Sarcoptes scabiei. It is transmitted by contact with another infected individual. It is not transmitted by dogs or cats.
