Denise Williford LCSW

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• 7 Tips to Keep Patients Exercising with Type 2 Diabetes

  When you are first diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, you are determined to take all the necessary steps and control it. You vow that you will exercise, and that you will follow the recommendations of your doctors. Unfortunately, just like many resolutions, you may not actually keep them. ...

• Improving Efforts for Adults with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

  Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD), a disease that affects children now sees these children reaching and living longer into adulthood. One of the nine forms of MD, Duchenne, usually presents in early childhood between the ages of three and five, and although girls can be affected, it is more...

• Muscular Dystrophy: Types and Designed Proteins for Treatment

  Proteins, which sum up to 42% of the total dry weight in our body, play an important role as part of the red blood cells and as collagen. This is mainly responsible for holding our body parts together. Moreover, proteins also work together to activate an enzyme and turn on a gene. Muscles, on the...

• How Ovarian Cancer 'Previvors' Are Paving the Way

  Nancy Crowe is a previvor, but she understands if someone doesn’t know what that means. It’s a relatively new term which arose in 2000 from a challenge posted on FORCE’s website. FORCE stands for Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered and was started by Sue Friedman in 1999.Sue says the goal of...

• Excision and Laser Surgery of Genital Warts

  Genital warts are caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV) that is transmitted usually when two people get physically intimate with each other. Affecting both men and women, the side effects of genital warts are more serious and vulnerable for women. Asymptotic genital warts often go away on their...

• Student Makes Potential Breakthrough in Breast Cancer Treatment

  New treatments make waves in the media frequently. Diseases affect everyone in one way or another. This makes them feel scary and unsolvable. Research is the light at the end of the tunnel that gives us a glimmer of hope. However, it is rarer for a treatment to become a breakthrough for a...