Hemophilia is a rare blood disorder that occurs when the blood doesn’t clot normally because the patient lacks sufficient blood-clotting proteins (or clotting factors). Patients with hemophilia often bleed for a longer duration after surgery, trauma, or injury, and may even risk non visual internal bleeding (i.e., head, elbows, ankles, and knees) when blood doesn’t clot sufficiently. According to the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), one in every 5000 born will be hemophiliacs. Approximately 20,000 residents in America suffer from hemophilia. When a person bleeds, what normally happens is that the blood pulls blood cells together to create a clot that prevents bleeding. Some blood particles encourage clotting to take place. Hemophilia takes place when you have complications on these clotting factors. Signs and symptoms of hemophilia may include: Excessive bleeding from injuries or cuts, or after dental work or surgery Deep and large bruises Swelling, pain, and tightness in the joints Blood in stool or urine The main types of hemophilia include: 1. Hemophilia type A Hemophilia is caused by a defective or missing factor VIII protein. It is thought to be genetically transferred from parent to child as the X chromosome carries the hemophilia gene, which is inherited in an X-intertwined formula.

Dry eye syndrome is a condition where the eyes do not produce enough tears or the right type of tears. Typical symptoms include stinging or burning of the eyes, blurred vision, mucus around the eye, irritated eyes, or pain when using contact lenses. There could be different causes of dry eye such as looking at a computer screen for long periods, the side-effect of certain medications, chronic sleep deprivation, eye surgery or certain diseases. In most cases, this condition is very easily treatable. Here are a few treatments for dry eyes: 1. Artificial tears Artificial tears can be used to provide moisture to the eye. Over the counter, moisturizing eye drops are available with different ingredients and viscosity. Eye drops that have lower viscosity are more watery and provide quick relief but the effect can be short-lived. The high viscosity drops, look more like a gel, provide longer-lasting relief. It is important to note that with the dry eye syndrome, there are further sub-categories such as evaporative dry eye where the tears evaporate too quickly or aqueous-deficiency dry eye where the eye doesn’t produce enough tears. The right eye drops for you will depend on exactly which type of dry eye condition you have.

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a condition that causes a person’s immune system to attack their joints. This results in joint inflammation that causes the sufferer to experience swelling, pain and other symptoms that may affect the hands, wrists, and feet. Many early warning signs indicate potential RA, allowing early management that prevents joint damage and disability. We’ll discuss some of the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis below: 1. Joint pain and stiffness Almost everyone with RA experiences joint pain and stiffness. The pain is most common in the fingers and hands but can affect any of the body’s joints. The pain is most noticeable during the early morning hours, affecting many people as soon as they wake up. Joint pain and stiffness can affect the sufferers’ ability to move, walk, run or do the things they once did to inflammation, tenderness, swelling, and other RA symptoms. 2. Weight loss Eating when you’re in pain is the last thing that you want to do. Many people experience weight loss when a loss of appetite affects them. Although this symptom is more common as the disease progresses, unexplained weight loss is still a common sign of early RA. 3. Fever A slight fever is another sign that RA suffers often times experience in combination with other symptoms.

Sarcoma is a very rare cancer occurring in various tissues throughout the body. Most often, sarcoma begins in connective tissues and spreads from there to blood vessels, nerves, fat, cartilage, bones and muscles; at times, it’s found in other places as well. There are 50 types of sarcoma that are divided into two groups: Soft tissue sarcomas, and osteosarcomas (within the bones). The exact cause is not known, but there are factors that can make one more prone to getting it such as radiation exposure, family history, genetic abnormalities, or previous bone disease. Symptoms can present as a painless lump, swelling, sore bones, limping, and shortness of breath. Currently, there are no tests to find sarcoma before symptoms begin and treatments depend on how early it’s found, how advanced it is, where it’s located and the level of metastasis. Even though there are no guarantees for preventing sarcoma, there are some common themes that have been noted in patients such as: Genetic abnormalities such as Li-Fraumeni syndrome, neurofibromatosis retinoblastoma or Gardner syndrome Radiation Exposure of any type, most commonly among those who have had previous cancer treated with radiation An existing disease of the bones called Paget’s disease History of family members having sarcoma 1.

Lung cancer is a cancer that begins in the lungs and can develop due to smoking or by breathing dangerous toxic substances over time. Some people get this disease from second-hand smoke. Early symptoms can include a lingering or worsening cough, chest pain, shortness of breath, coughing up phlegm or blood, hoarseness, weakness and fatigue, loss of appetite and weight loss, and wheezing. There are two main kinds of lung cancer and they include small cell lung cancer and non-small lung cancer (NSCLC). The following non-small cell lung cancer (SCLC) treatments are listed below. 1. Chemo for treating non-small lung cancer Chemotherapy, also known as chemo, is used to treat non-small lung cancer. This treatment option utilizes special drugs that attack the cancerous cells. They work by targeting and then shrinking cancer until it is no longer any viable. This type of cancer treatment is often administered as an oral medication or as an injection. 2. Targeted therapy treatment options Targeted therapy plays a defensive role against cancer. This type of treatment is given in drug form and its purpose is to block the cancer from spreading and prevent its growth. This double defense treatment option is very effective and can make it difficult for cancer to return once it has been eliminated.