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What is Health Literacy?

Many people just don’t understand health literacy — it sounds like a foreign language to them. If you don’t know what it is, you’re not alone. Health literacy is essential because understanding health issues can be difficult without clear-cut definitions and instructions. Health literacy is a crucial component in the complex healthcare system. Health literacyContinue reading “What is Health Literacy?”

What Causes Antibiotic Resistance?

Many people have died from antibiotic resistance. Mainly because of the overuse or misuse of antibiotics over the years. Our society is alarmed by this crisis. According to the CDC more than 2.8 million antibiotic-resistant infections occur in the U.S. each year, resulting in about 35,000 deaths. What is Antibiotic resistance? It happens when yourContinue reading “What Causes Antibiotic Resistance?”

What is mRNA?

The body is made up of cells. Inside the cell, we can find nucleic acid. Nucleic acids are composed of what we call nucleotides. These nucleotides are the monomers of nucleic acids. They consist of several different things like sugar, phosphate and a nitrogenous base. The best-known nucleotide itself is ATP (Adenosine Triphosphate). ATP isContinue reading “What is mRNA?”

Conventional Vaccinations vs. mRNA Vaccinations

How did vaccines come about? In order to understand this, we need to talk about smallpox. Small pox holds a unique place in medicine as it was one of the deadliest diseases known to humans, and, to date, is the only human disease to have been eradicated by vaccination. Smallpox would cause body aches, highContinue reading “Conventional Vaccinations vs. mRNA Vaccinations”

COVID-19

COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2), a novel coronavirus, which transferred to humans in late December 2019. Originally, referred to as Wuhan Coronavirus as the first cases of patients seem to be associated with the Huanan seafood market or surrounding area in Wuhan, China. This virus causes viral pneumonia with the most prominent symptoms being cough, fever and difficultyContinue reading “COVID-19”