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Biodiesel Ethan Hughes Jordan Woodard This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License

Our siblings Paige and Alex, ages 19 and age 15, respectively, both have asthma. They both ran cross-country during their middle and high school years, although running was a difficult task for them. Asthma affects the way they breathe and as they run it gets harder and harder to breathe.  It even causes them to have asthma attacks....

Polio: The Once Crippling Epidemic       Emily Tobar This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License

Celiac Disease Candice Sampson This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License

Sensorineural Hearing Loss Brooke Nicewaner Nolan McAllister This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License

Food Borne Diseases   This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License   Ariona Booker

You wake up… tired. You brush your teeth… tired. You get dressed… tired.  Do you notice a theme? Teenagers across America are doing their daily routine at 6 in the morning TIRED! A study conducted by Stephanie Crowley and her team of researchers at Brown University, published in August 2014, shows that being tired is completely...

“Spit out the gum!” is what teachers are constantly telling us during school. Teenagers love chewing gum because of the great taste and it freshens breath.  What teachers don’t know about chewing gum is that it can have other advantages. Several recent studies have shown that chewing gum before a test can actually increase your test...

On November 26, 2013, Zaria Rayne Prunty was born weighing 7 pounds, 4 ounces and measuring 19 inches long. Before she was even born, we knew that she had some health problems; it wasn’t until birth, though, that we learned the seriousness of her health. It took 11 weeks of blood tests and scans. Finally, we knew that...

Brian Chaplin had his world changed when he began having difficulties with his sight and was diagnosed with ocular myasthenia gravis (MG). After several appointments with the doctors, blood samples were taken. Chaplin explained,  "When the blood test came back," says Chaplin, “I found out that I had ocular MG, which affects my eye muscles.”         ...