A Life with Colon Cancer
My grandfather, Pascasio Sosa, describes feeling lumps along the lining of his abdomen, motivating him to visit his doctor in 1992 while he lived in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Mexico. “When they sent me to the hospital, they checked me, and took the lump out with tongs and they poked it with needles and then they sent me to another...
Don’t Get Dizzy While Reading This: A Story about Computer Vision Syndrome
My sister started to rock back and forth as she moved away from her desk. She noticed her eyesight beginning to blur as the room spun around her. “I was so engrossed to the computer screen because I was taking a test for my business class—that should take about 3 hours—and I was worried that...
Jean’s Story
“I had to teach myself to drive a car two-footed; learning to eat left handed has been difficult. I have had to learn to be patient, it sometimes takes me six tries to get my socks on,” says Jean Holland, 67, a victim of Parkinson’s Disease (PD). “The right side of my body just doesn’t work well. Everything...
Beauty Sleep is Important
On August 5, 2013, Matthew Brady, Associate Professor of Adult and Pediatric Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at the University of Chicago, reported new research that sleep deprivation affects the amount of high-calorie food people consume. According to Brady, sleep deprivation reduces the ability of fat cells to respond to insulin, a hormone that controls energy, by 30%....
Me, Myself and Celiac Disease
In August 2013, the Food & Drug Administration announced that by August, 2014, no food label will be able to call itself “gluten free” unless there is less than 20 parts per million (ppm) of gluten in the product. For those of us with celiac disease, this is great news. I have had celiac for over five...
Infographic: Stranger Danger?
Stranger Danger? Daniel Schmidt This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
Naturally Faster Growing Citrus
Two varieties of citrus rootstock propagated and grown through a patented methodology grew significantly faster compared to traditional methods. Research conducted using the Root Production Method (RPM) suggests that this technology is capable of producing plant material with an accelerated growth that 2–3-times faster than traditional plant material. We were very skeptical at first,” begins Lupe...
Infographic: The Link Between Diabetes and Heart Disease
The Link Between Diabetes and Heart Disease by SciJourner This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
Human Extinction by Asteroid?
On February 15, 2013, a 55 feet diameter meteor hit Chelyabinsk, Russia, injuring over a thousand people. That meteor may have injured a small town’s worth of people, but asteroids could kill the entire world’s population.There is one particular asteroid roaming our solar system by the name of 99942 Apophis that could do just that. NASA...