Prostate cancer is the second most common type of cancer in men in the United States, after skin cancer. Of all the men who are diagnosed with cancer each year, more than one-fourth have prostate cancer. Prostate cancer affects the prostate, a gland in a man’s reproductive system that makes and stores seminal fluid. Prostate [...]

Up until the 1930s and 1940s extracts of Indian hemp was used medically to treat a wide variety of diseases. In the USA it was a legal medicine until 1969 and in Britain it was legal until 1971. At the only hearing for the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act, the representative of the American Medical Association [...]

Mesothelioma is an uncommon form of cancer, usually associated with prolonged exposure to asbestos, which affects the pleura, a sac which surrounds the lungs, the peritoneum, the lining of the abdominal cavity, or the pericardium, a sac which surrounds the heart. Mesothelioma is a rare form of cancer in which malignant (cancerous) cells are found [...]

Alzheimer’s Disease is usually characterized by a number of apparent changes in a person. As the disease progresses, people loose the ability to remember how to do tasks, how to speak, and even how to move. Scientifically, Alzheimer’s is neuronal degeneration, a buildup of amyloid-beta formations and neurofibrillary “tangles” in the brain. Risk factors include: [...]

The symptoms of Huntington’s are horrific. Symptoms include involuntary gestures, absent-mindedness and then as if the person is intoxicated staggering and other bizarre movements of the body are exhibited. Simple every day tasks are impaired and lastly as the disease envelops its host the person exhibits depression and aggressiveness. The gene found on chromosome 4 [...]