Jeanne M. Colton NP

Recommended Articles

• Candidiasis of the Skin: Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment

  A candidiasis infection of the skin is caused by a fungus called Candida. A small number of Candida organisms are naturally found in your skin and do not cause any harm. However, under certain conditions, these Candida organisms can sometimes multiply and cause infection. The skin is one of the...

• Men Who Do Not Have Children Are at Risk for Heart Disease

  A new study has show that men who do not have children are more likely to die from a heart complication or condition, when compared to men who did have children. In this study, the researchers followed more than 135,000 older men for a decade to observe the impact of fatherhood on health. Study...

• Living as a Hodgkin Lymphoma Survivor: Creating a New Normal

  No one can ever truly be prepared for what it is like to live with cancer. Even the strongest survivors face setbacks, and some of the fiercest warriors share their stories of how they find their "new normals."Kimberly's storyWhen she was only 25, just five days before her wedding, Kimberly felt a...

• Reasons Why You Need a Laparoscopy

  Laparoscopy involves the inspection of the abdominal organs or the female pelvic organs through the use of a thin, lighted tube that is inserted through an incision made in the belly. It is used to locate complications such as adhesions, cysts, infections, and fibroids. The tube used in the...

• Finding Fibromyalgia-Friendly Work

  Finding a job that doesn’t exacerbate a person's fibromyalgia syndrome symptoms is a very real challenge that over 12 million people between ages 18 and 60 in the United States have. Everyone deserves to find a job that leaves them, or at least their bank accounts, fulfilled without having to...

• How Asthma Is Diagnosed

  Asthma generates a bunch of questions with ill-defined answers leaving sufferers with an incurable disease and a lifelong handicap. Asthma broadly affects us in three ways. It could develop as an allergic response to our surroundings. It may come about when we are exposed to toxins in our workplace....