White blood cells play a vital role in your immune system. They are also known as leukocytes or sometimes WBCs by doctors. White blood cells circulate in your blood stream, attacking invading bacteria, parasites and any other cells and objects that are not meant to be floating around inside your blood. White blood cells are […]
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Doctors don’t know what causes Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphatic system that 54,000 Americans are diagnosed with every year. What they do know is that cases of Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma have more than doubled over the past 30 years. Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma is seven to eight times more common than Hodgkin’s disease, and there are […]
Acute leukemia occurs when immature blood cells begin to rapidly increase and begins to crowd the bone marrow, preventing it from making more healthy blood cells. Thus, problems occur in the body as it is unable to fight off diseases and harmful attacks and immediate treatment is needed to combat this disease. Usually this occurs […]
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Atherosclerosis is the main cause of cardiovascular disease, which is responsible for over 900,000 deaths in the United States each year. People who appear to be healthy may already have the disease and be at risk for a heart attack or stroke. What is atherosclerosis? What causes atherosclerosis? What are the risk factors of atherosclerosis? […]
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Coughing is one of the bodies best defense mechanisms. The purpose of a cough is throw irritants out of the body. You want a cough to help get rid of the mucus and prevent dead cells from settling in the lungs. Suppressing a cough is not always the best way to go. The following natural […]
Blood is more than the red substance that comes out of our damaged bodies. For blood is a very complex part of existence. Inside that simple red liquid lies several important substances. Blood consists of both the plasma and the formations found in the plasma. This latter consists of three different elements, red blood cells, […]