Pulmonary Hypertension (PH) is high blood pressure in the arteries, lungs and right side of your heart. It begins when tiny arteries in your lungs, called pulmonary arteries and capillaries, become injured. This injury makes it hard for blood to flow through your lungs. This condition raises the pressure in the vessels carrying blood to ...
Imagine having a disease with 45 letters in the name. It’s the longest word in the dictionary, and it’s said to be a fictitious name, a hoax; but, in fact, it is a real disease. It’s a form of the illness pneumoconiosis which is caused by inhaling the fine silica dust of volcanoes. We are ...
What is scleroderma? How can it affect me or someone I love? This little known disease affects over 300,000 people in the United States, mainly women. Yet very little is known about the disease among the general public. It is an autoimmune disorder that is largely invisible, yet can be crippling. Some 80,000-100,000 have the ...
Robert “Evel” Knievel was born on October 17, 1938. Evel Knievel was a stunt motorcycle rider who became famous in the late 1960’s to early 1970’s by performing spectacular stunts that were extremely dangerous. Knievel was injured many times and every crash seemed to be bringing him one step closer to the end. Ironically, at ...
