Breast

The book “The End of Your Life Book Club” written by Will Schwalbe is a literary work centred around issues pertaining to adult development and aging. It is focused on the physical and emotional well-being of a number of characters of different generations as well as their relationships. An important theme in the book is physical health. One of the main characters, Mary Anne Schwalbe who is 73 years old, experiences various normative physical changes such as graying and thinning of her hair as…

Herbal Treatments For Fibroids In The Uterus By Pat Lovejoy Jan 26, 2012 If a woman has uterine fibroids, there are a number of treatments that are obtainable. Even though many women are suggested to have surgical treatment to have part or all of their uterus removed, there are natural ways to handle fibroids. Some of these herbal therapies are well known and have been utilized around the globe. A fibroid tumor is formed when there is an excess of estrogen in the body. It might be caused by…

Nose is one of the most important parts of one’s facial features and overall personality. Many people feel dissatisfied with the shape of their nose and seek to have it altered to their desires. Rhinoplasty, also known as a nose job, is a common plastic surgery procedure that people undergo to change the shape of their nose. Even though nose surgery is carried out for medical reasons as well, it is usually done to get the desired aesthetics results such as a narrower nose, higher bridge, refined…

article from The New York Times titled “Paging Dr. Pigeon; You’re Needed in Radiology” by Nicholas Bakalar that was published on November 24, 2015. The article discussed the recent study of training and using pigeons to identify benign or malignant breast tumors by looking at a slide from a biopsy or a mammogram at the University of California Davis medical Center, University of Iowa, and the Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences at Emory University. This study was conducted as a tool and…

between benign and malignant breast lesions. Methods: The study was conducted on 20 patients with 36 lesions, each patient was subjected to complete history taking, thorough clinical examination. Then all patients had conventional US and elastography while only in 17 patients mammography was done. Results: Among the 20 patients, sensitivity and specificity of the…

Since breast milk is easier on the stomach it causes less digestive problems for the baby. In the children who do breastfeed their children there is less of a risk for SIDS, or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, which is a syndrome in which seemingly healthy babies…

BREAST FEEDING STUDY Breast-feeding is as old as human kind. It is universally acknowledged to be the best and complete food for infants as it fulfills specific nutritional need. It is the feeding of an infant or young child with breast milk directly from human breasts, it is said not to be something really important in infants, and breast feeding has positive effects on people if given at time of birth to up to six months. 1.) General hypothesis; children who are breastfeed at birth up to six…

however, it may not be a marker in the future that will predict cancerous cells. For example the BRCA1 gene may not be able to detect breast cancer in the future. Breast cancer is a group of cancer cells that start in the cells of a breast. It also is the second leading cause of death among women. There is no one specific cause that you can pinpoint how it developed. Breast cancer is common in older women, giving them (the cells) years to develop. Technology has already advanced so much and…

Angelina’s main reason for having a double mastectomy was because she had most her mother to breast cancer and she did not want her six children to lose her from breast cancer. After her mother died of breast cancer she decided to take a gene test to determine if she was at risk for breast cancer. She was. She justified saying her doctors estimated that she had an 87 percent risk of having breast cancer so she decided to be proactive and have the surgery. Angelina used her own personal story…

Many women are faced with a very important question when becoming new mothers: whether to breast-feed or formula-feed their babies. Breast feeding dates back to eighteen hundred BC in Greek culture where wet nurses came about as women hired to feed another woman’s child. Formula feeding did not come to light until two hundred years after which then led to a “refined and hygienic” bottle in the industrial ages (Stevens). While both have advantages and disadvantages, breastfeeding has shown to be…