Melanie Gutierrez-daher

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• What Affects Night Vision?

  Problems with night vision is a very common problem. Most of the night vision problems, like halos, blurred vision, and night blindness, may be treated. Some of these may also be a sign of congenital medical condition, like retinitis pigmentosa. A number of other conditions, like exposure to the sun...

• The Emotional Rollercoaster of Losing a Patient

  Monica is a registered nurse who provides incalculable healthcare to her patients. She loves her job and deeply cares about everyone she works for. However, there is one thing she hates in the hospital: patient death. Monica still remembers the first time she was assigned a patient. He was an old...

• Cauliflower Health Benefits

  When talking about healthy foods, especially vegetables, you always hear that it is best to have more colors on the plate. The more the better!However, when we think of vegetables, we imagine green spinach, red bell pepper, orange carrots, purple cabbage, and the list goes on. But there are some...

• Protein Interactions May Help Explain Memory Loss with Parkinson's

  Up until recently, scientists only knew that as Parkinson’s disease progresses so do all of its symptoms, particularly around memory loss.  They also knew that as many as 30% of Parkinson’s sufferers develop dementia.  What they didn’t know was why or, really how they treat it in...

• Improved Gene Editing Tools Provide Hope for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Patients

  The year 2017 has witnessed researchers making great strides in the direction of finding better methods that can lead to the cure of various muscular dystrophies, particularly for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center reported in Science Translational Medicine...

• Dehydration: Causes, Symptoms and Prevention

  Dehydration is the term used to describe the state of the human body when it is loses more body fluid than you take in. Body fluid, mainly water, is lost through sweat, tears, vomiting, urine and diarrhea. Dehydration could vary from mild to severe based on a number of factors, such as weather...