Clarissa Lambert

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• What Is the Dukan Diet?

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• Conjunctivitis: When to See an Ophthalmologist and What to Expect

  Our eyes are our windows to the world, and we each get only a single pair in our lifetime. Life without our sense of sight can spell great difficulty. Imagine being born and living with good vision for decades, only to have it impaired by some disease we could have prevented or gotten treatment for....

• Living in the Spotlight with Crohn's Disease

  Natalie Hayden is 34, and a former TV news anchor. When she was diagnosed with Crohn's disease, and it changed her life.  She endured multiple hospitalizations, was taking too many medications to count, and had seemingly constant flare ups. In 2015, she went in for her first surgery.Throughout her...

• Autism: How Tom Finally Found the Perfect Job

  Tom Whalen is a friendly man from Maryland. He makes quick friends with strangers and loves to talk. He is pretty good at convincing employers to give him a chance at employment, and is fully willing to put in the effort needed to hold down a job.But he has a problem. He loses his jobs shortly after...

• Cognitive Dissonance and How It Works

  Cognitive dissonance definitionPsychologically speaking, cognitive dissonance is the mental discomfort (stress) that a person undergoes when he/she goes through simultaneous contradiction of ideas, values, or beliefs when doing something that runs counter to one or more of the ideas, values, or...

• Aldosterone Function

  Adrenal glandsOn top of each kidney lies the adrenal gland. The gland is made of an outer cortex and an inner medulla. The hormones adrenaline, noradrenaline, and dopamine are produced by the inner layer. The other layer is the steroid producing layer which is the outer cortex. Mineralocorticoids...