As summer is approaching, it is important to keep your skin healthy and moisturized. On those sunny summer days, it is important to wear sunscreen and to put it in your children before going outdoors. Sunscreen protects the skin from the harmful rays of the sun that can cause an array of problems with the ...
Also known as “omentum,” belly fat is more threatening to your health than other types of fat because of where it’s located. By hanging off the center of the colon and covering the intestines inside the abdomen, omentum makes hormones that interrupt your body’s normal chemical functions. As these chemicals are able to feed on ...
As a childhood disorder affecting the kidneys, Wilms’ tumor, also known as nephroblastoma, is a cancerous tumor which most commonly develops, in children, around age three. Although rare in both kidneys, the diagnosis of Wilms’ tumor creates a frightening medical concern in parents, healthcare professionals and children alike. Understanding the origin of Wilms’ tumor, the ...
Users of Bio-Perl can now take advantage of Perl 5.0. Perl 5.0 now comes with the added advantage of being able to handle multi-dimensional arrays. Systems biologists and genomicists have to handle vast files of data. Now, they can archive, query, modify and update these data with ease. Perl already comes with the advantage of ...
Four years ago in June a partial nephrectomy was performed on my right kidney, lower pole, at Aurora Medical Center, Lombardi Cancer Treatment Center, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Three months prior to this I had been followed by my Rheumatologist with routine lab, next sent on to my Internal Medicine Physician for more routine lab, because ...
Stage IV Kidney Cancer, INOPERABLE, Kidney Cancer. Stage IV Papillary Renal Cell Carcinoma, to be exact. Those were the words that came from the Oncologist who my husband and I had been sent to after finding a swollen lymph node above my left collarbone. “I am very sorry. This is not good. It is the ...
