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• What Is Cholecystitis?

  What is cholecystitis?Cholecystitis is the inflammation of the gallbladder, which is a pear-shaped organ situated under the liver. The gallbladder serves as the storage organ for bile until it is needed for the digestion of fatty foods in the duodenum or the first segment of the small...

• All About Dragon Fruit

  What is a dragon fruit? What does it look like?Dragon fruit is native to Mexico where it is called pitaya or pitahaya. It is believed to be indigenous to Central and South America, and later transplanted by European explorers and colonizers to Southeast Asia. It is the fruit of a vine, epiphytic...

• Robotic Arm Gives Teen with Muscular Dystrophy A New Lease on Life

  Austin Stelly is only 14-years old, and he has Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The disease is a genetic disorder that over time causes degeneration of the muscles. Austin uses a motorized wheelchair full-time, and it has been his mode of movement for about four years. When Austin was ten years old, he...

• What Are Petechiae?

  What Are Petechiae?Petechiae can be described as marks or blotches that normally appear on the skin and are tiny, round, and purplish or reddish in color. Petechiae are usually pinpoint-sized. Minor hemorrhage (bleeding that is localized below the skin) is the source of petechiae.Although they...

• Idol Casey Abrams Promotes Awareness of Crohn's and Colitis

  Casey Abrams is a young man who suffers from ulcerative colitis. He is also the Season 10 American Idol finalist, and in 2011 he was hospitalized while singing in the famous competition because of a flare of his ulcerative colitis. Though he had to suffer through some very serious health issues,...

• Nauseated All the Time: What To Do

  Nausea or feeling sick is a condition nearly everyone has experienced at some point. Sometimes, nausea is accompanied by vomiting. While most episodes of nausea have no specific cause, some people still feel nauseated all the time and this experience has affected their quality of life.Feeling...