Your two kidneys – the renal organs – are the master chemists of the body. They monitor the quality of the blood, separating out harmful substances from beneficial ones, acting not only as waste disposal units but also like sophisticated sieves that retrieve useful substances that slip through the holes. The kidneys maintain the internal ...
It’s easy to overlook medical problems that affect an extremely small number of people. After all, it has not made any headlines in health news. Unless you’re a medical professional you may not have even heard about the bacteria called Clostridium sordellii. According to the New England Journal of Medicine, 10 cases were positively identified ...
I worked for twenty years as a nurse, and for the last 10 years I specialized in elder care in a nursing home facility. The most common threat to the elder patient was the development of decubitus ulcers. A decubitus ulcer is a bedsore, also called a pressure sore. Bedsores are caused by continuous pressure ...
What is Septicemia? Septicemia, alternately known as “blood poisoning,” is identified by the incidence of bacteria in the blood. In turn, the presence of bacteria in the blood is known as bacteremia. Although it is generally a bacterial infection, fungi and other organisms can also cause septicemia to arise. It is a severe and pervasive ...
