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There is nothing much scarier than finding out your child has been diagnosed with a childhood cancer or blood disorder. Knowing your child is facing a chronic or life-threatening disease often pushes parents to great lengths to seek the best possible care. At the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, we know that a child with cancer or a blood disorder has unique needs and deserves specialized pediatric care. We’ll be by your side from diagnosis onward, to…

Patients with aplastic anemia, myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) and other blood disorders are invited to a free seminar featuring a Vanderbilt University Medical Center clinician and other medical experts.

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Helping a loved one face cancer is never easy, but the challenge is especially daunting when the patient is your own child. Our clinicians at Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center work with pediatric cancer patients and their families every day. Lisa Diller, MD, Anna Muriel, MD, and Jorge …

Posted on August 26, 2014 at 2:50 pm
Maybe you remember those dairy ads from a few years back: “Milk — it does a body good.” While there are lots of nutritional benefits in that glass of milk, it’s also true that too much of a good thing can be bad for your child
As a pediatric hematologist (that’s a doctor who treats blood disorders in kids), I see a number of children each year who develop a form of anemia from drinking…

Marking Brain Tumor Awareness Month, Mark Kieran of Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer & Blood Disorders Center will take questions on child brain tumors.

Rolunda Jefferson and her five children, ages 4 to 17, are the embodiment of resiliency against a blood disorder that is a lifelong burden, say those who know them.

This story first appeared on Vector , a blog of Boston Children’s Hospital
“It’s a brutal disease; there’s just no other way to describe DIPG,” says Steve Czech. “And what’s crazy is that there aren’t many treatment options because it’s such a rare, orphan disease.”
Czech’s son, Mikey, was diagnosed with a diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) on Jan. 6, 2008. It was Mikey’s 11th birthday…

Leukemia, which usually occurs because of a mutation — or DNA change — is the most common childhood cancer. Some genetic syndromes can create a predisposition to leukemia, as well as other blood disorders.

Sickle-cell disease is an inherited blood disorder in which red blood cells are abnormally shaped like a sickle or crescent, which decreases their ability to move through blood vessels smoothly.

Traveling in certain less-developed countries can bring health complications as unwanted passengers. And sometimes, those complications don’t become clear until after you’ve come home
Jet lag
Though it’s not a serious condition, you are likely to suffer from jet lag if you’ve traveled across many time zones, and especially if you’ve traveled from the western hemisphere to the eastern hemisphere
Some people do well using melatonin…

Migraine headache is one of the more common neurological conditions. In fact it is so common that some people don’t even consider it a disease, but rather a normal variant of the human condition. Although the word migraine conjures up the image of extremely painful headaches, migraine often involves much more than headache. In fact, at times the headache may be minor, or may not even exist
Many people who experience migraine are familiar with visual aura when, just before the headache, one…

The American Heart Association explains how uncontrolled hypertension or high blood pressure can lead to damage to the coronary arteries, heart attack, heart disease, congestive heart failure, aortic dissection, atherosclerosis, Stroke, Kidney damage, Vision loss, Erectile dysfunction, Memory loss, Fluid in the lungs and Angina.

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In March 2016, Ollie the pug, a therapy dog at Boston Children’s Hospital , paid a bedside visit to 7-year-old Carter Mock. Both dog and boy lost limbs to osteosarcoma , a cancer of the bone. Ollie’s left front leg was amputated at the shoulder. After removing the tumor in Carter’s left leg bone, surgeons fashioned a new knee from his ankle in a procedure called rotationplasty
The two have more in common than missing legs and being loved. The osteosarcoma that…

You can lower your blood pressure without medication. Try these 10 lifestyle changes.

Luciana Lozza de Moraes MarchioriI; Eduardo de Almeida Rego FilhoII; Tiemi MatsuoIII
IPhD in medicine and Health Sciences, Professor of Speech Therapy and Pharmacy - Norte do Paraná University
IIPhD in Medicine, Professor of the Postgraduate course in Medicine and Health Sciences Londrina State University
IIIPhD in Statistics, Professor of the Postgraduate course in Medicine and Health Sciences Londrina State University
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Stopping exercise for 10 days can reduce brain blood flow by 20% to 30% in eight brain regions, including the hippocampus, which is responsible for learning and memory and is one of the first brain regions to shrink in Alzheimer’s disease.

You probably have many questions about high blood pressure, such as, “What does high blood pressure really mean?” or “How do I know if I have high blood pressure?” and “What can I do about it?”
It is important to understand the facts about high blood pressure. The following webpages will help you learn more about the condition and what you can do to live a healthy and happy life
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