After nearly 30 years of leadership in the battle against the chronic disease in Michigan, Dr. Wanda Whitten-Shurney will now play an expanded national role in shaping federal policy and guidelines aimed at lessening the impact of the genetically triggered blood disorder. During her 29 years as a passionate clinician specializing in treating Detroit-area children […]
Detroit Researchers Help Identify a Key Gene Mutation That Can Trigger ALL
After collecting data on a leukemia-affected family for nearly a decade, Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center (DMC), Hematologist and Wayne State University School of Medicine Professor of Pediatrics Madhvi Rajpurkar, M.D., joined an international team of genetic researchers in an effort to track down a mutation partly responsible for causing the disease. Their […]
Osteoarthritis and Paget’s Disease of Bone – Differences You Must Know
Osteoarthritis and Paget’s disease of the bone are completely different conditions but have symptoms that are similar to one another. Paget’s disease of the bone usually causes disruption of the normal bone recycling process where the old bone tissues are replaced with new bone tissues. After a long period of disruption the affected bones become […]
Doctor Touts Ultraviolet Light as Miracle Cure for Some Diseases
Summer is here and that means we will get a lot of sunshine. It also means that people will get a lot of warnings about the harmful effects of ultraviolet light (UV) that the sun provides. While people will be donning sunglasses and slathering on layers of sunscreen to avoid the UV light, one doctor […]
Study Says :Fetus can develop Heart Disease
When babies do not get enough Oxygen at the fetus stage at the womb, they are at the risk of developing heart disease in later life, as revealed by a new study. Researchers at the Cambridge University have found that the lack of Oxygen available to the fetus can retard the growth as well as […]
Snoring will be an Indication of Heart Disease:Study Says
A recent study undertaken by the researchers at the University of Budabest in Hungary, has revealed that snoring can cause more than a disrupted night sleep amd it may trigger high blood pressure which can lead to heart disease and even a stroke. According to the study that loud snoring with with breathing pauses […]
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