Lucia Lavin

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  Chemotherapy is a treatment for many types of cancer. Chemotherapy works in various ways in fighting cancer in the human body: It suppresses cancer cells from growth and spreading to other parts of the body, kills cancer cells hence stopping the condition, and can also reduce recurrence of cancer...

• What is Kawasaki Disease?

  Kawasaki disease is a rare childhood disease that causes inflammation of the arteries in the body. The characteristic symptoms of the disease, which is high fever and peeling skin, remains for almost a week. In most cases, it gets back to normal without any major issues. Children will be monitored...

• Why Are Millennials Embracing Nursing Professions

  Millennials who were born between 1982 and 2000 are 60% more likely to become registered nurses than the Gen X’ers born between 1965 and 1981. These are exciting statistics that are a bit confusing. Why are millennials becoming the driving force in nursing today? ...

• What Conditions Trigger Rheumatoid Arthritis Flare-Ups?

  What is Rheumatoid Arthritis Flare-up?Flare-ups can take place when you least expect them. Everything can be going well with your rheumatoid arthritis, your medications were taken on time and your carrying on with your day.When all of the sudden, you begin to feel severe pain in your joints that is...

• Risk of Multiple Sclerosis Reduced by Breast-Feeding, Study Suggests

  Women are twice as likely as men to develop Multiple Sclerosis in their lifetime, and recent studies have been focused on discovering links, if they exist, between MS and motherhood. The relationship between women and MS has become increasingly complicated as fluctuations in risk have been...

• Muscular Dystrophy: Cellular Antennae Play Key Role in Muscle Loss

  As humans age, it is common for muscle cells to diminish and be exchanged with fat cells. It is a slow process as one cell after another is exchanged. However, this process quickens when a muscle is injured. The worst case occurs in muscle wasting diseases like Duchenne muscular dystrophy. A...