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To begin, muscular dystrophy is a group of genetic diseases that weaken the musculoskeletal system. As a result this affects a person's ability to walk. These are genetic conditions and can be inherited as well. Some types of muscular dystrophy will present symptoms in early childhood, while other types will appear in adulthood. Muscular dystroph affects different muscle groups . Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and Becker muscular dystrophy are 2 most common forms.

To begin, Mitochondria are tiny structures located within nearly all cells of the body. They are the parts of the cell that are primarily responsible for creating energy. They do this by generating adenosine triphosphate (ATP), a “fuel” driving all of the body’s functions. Moreover, mitochondria are described as the “powerhouse” of the cell.

The nutrition world is rife with misinformation, leading to public confusion, mistrust of health professionals, and poor dietary choices. Since nutrition science is constantly changing, most people have a warped view of what constitutes a healthy diet. People are often drawn to believing a myth because of a desire to see results quickly.

There's a good reason why every doctor's appointment starts with a blood pressure check. Most people are unaware that they have it because it is largely symptom-less. But what is Blood Pressure?

Many people have heard of psoriasis but don’t know much more about it than it’s a skin condition. Psoriasis is an autoimmune skin disease which means the immune system sends a continuous signal to speed up the skin cell growth cycle resulting in a faster turnover of skin cells every few days when it would normally take about one month. This leaves a pile-up of dead skin cells on the surface of the epidermis and throughout the dermis. Psoriasis usually appears as red or pink plaques of raised, thick, scaly skin. However, it can also appear as small flat bumps or large thick plaques.

There are so many things to think about when you have a child. One of them is the blood from your baby’s umbilical cord. Cord blood banking is the process of collecting cord blood and extracting and cryogenically freezing its stem cells and other cells of the immune system for potential future medical use. In Europe and other parts of the world, cord blood banking is more often referred to as stem cell banking.

A sarcoma is a rare kind of cancer. Sarcomas grow in connective tissue -- cells that connect or support other kinds of tissue in your body. These tumours are most common in the bones, muscles, tendons, cartilage, nerves, fat, and blood vessels of your arms and legs, but they can also happen in other areas of your body. Although there are more than 50 types of sarcoma, they can be grouped into two main kinds: soft tissue sarcoma and bone sarcoma, or osteosarcoma. It is made up of many “subtypes” because it can arise from a variety of tissue structures. Because these tissues are found everywhere on the body, Sarcomas can arise anywhere.

Haemophilia is a bleeding disorder that slows the blood clotting process. Normally, when you cut yourself, substances in your blood known as clotting factors mix with blood cells called platelets to make your blood sticky and form a clot. This makes the bleeding stop eventually. People with haemophilia do not have as many clotting factors as they should have in their blood. This means they bleed for longer than usual. They experience prolonged bleeding or oozing following an injury, surgery, or having a tooth pulled.

A cataract is a progressive, painless clouding of the natural, internal lens of the eye. It begins when proteins in the eye form clumps that prevent the lens from sending clear images to the retina. The retina works by converting the light that comes through the lens into signals. It sends the signals to the optic nerve, which carries them to the brain. For people who have cataracts, seeing through cloudy lenses is a bit like looking through a frosty or fogged-up window.

Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes; about 90% of people with diabetes have type 2 diabetes. So what's happening in the body when type 2 diabetes is lurking? Your entire body runs on glucose to fuel everything from brain function to fingernail growth. The cells receive that glucose via the vehicle insulin. Thus without insulin (a hormone usually made by the pancreas), the entire body begins to lose the energy it needs to function properly.