This post provides overviews of many trailblazing organizations playing significant roles in helping bring an end to arthritis. This resource is great for those hoping to find new organizations to take part in.

Meet the Leading Organizations Fighting Arthritis

A discussion of the innovation of biologics from a molecular standpoint and its importance in treating arthritis.

Arthritis-- Biological DMARDS

An analysis of the commonly associated symptoms of arthritis along with interesting statistics and facts to further aid in understanding the importance in fighting this widespread disease.

Arthritis-- Signs, Stats, and Facts

A discussion of what arthritis is alongside the types and causes of it.

What Is Arthritis?

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This blog post provides a thorough breakdown of what celiac disease is alongside its types and possible causes

What Is Celiac?

This blog post provides an overview of 3 organizations that are leading the fight against diabetes.

Diabetes-Fighting Organizations

A discussion of insulin therapy, a common treatment for diabetes. In this post, we also break down the various types of insulin therapy.

Diabetes Treatment: Insulin Therapy

A synopsis of relevant information pertaining to the symptoms and statistics of diabetes

Diabetes-- Signs, Stats, and Facts

In this blog post, we discuss what diabetes is and breakdown the various types of diabetes.

What Is Diabetes?

In this blog post, we discuss what Crohn's disease is and its various types and causes. This post is a great place to build a foundational understanding of the disease.

What Is Crohn's Disease?

This blog post reviewed a research paper that provided an overview of the causes and treatment of gastric cancer. Read this blog post to learn about the study and its implications for the future.

Gastric cancer: Overview

This blog post provides basic information about some notable organizations that are leading the fight against gastric cancer. It also discusses what makes each organization unique and some opportunities to get involved.

Fight Stomach Cancer Through These Organizations

This blog post explores the mechanism of action of a novel treatment for metastatic stomach (gastric) cancers known as nivolumab (sold under the brand name OPDIVO). 

Stomach Cancer Treatment: Nivolumab

This blog post investigates the common symptoms of gastric cancer, the demographics of those affected by the disease, and informative statistics to provide a basic understanding of the prevalence of it.

Stomach Cancer-- Signs, Stats, and Facts

This blog post provides an in-depth discussion of what stomach cancer is. Beyond that, it explores the common types and possible causes of this disease.

What Is Stomach Cancer?

Want to get involved in fighting cerebral palsy? Well, this blog post is a great place to start as it provides a general overview of three trailblazing organizations in the fight against cerebral palsy!

What Cerebral Palsy-fighting Organizations Should You Get Involved in?

This blog post deviates from our usual post on treatments as we provide an overview of current methods to treat cerebral palsy rather than focusing on a specific method of treatment. This is an ideal post to understand in a simple yet comprehensive manner the common ways to treat and alleviate the effects of cerebral palsy.

Cerebral Palsy Treatments

A blog post exploring common signs,  informative statistics, and interests facts regarding cerebral palsy. 

Cerebral Palsy-- Signs, Stats, and Facts

This blog post explores what cerebral palsy is, its types, and its risk factors. Check this post out to learn about cerebral palsy on a general level.

What Is Cerebral Palsy?

The early identification and quick treatment of sepsis are necessary to effectively treat this condition. Therefore, a specific and sensitive biomarker is needed.

Sepsis biomarkers: A review.

High-Mobility Group Box-1 protein is a pro-inflammatory cytokine that is a marker of sepsis. Future focus on understanding its role in inflammation and ways to regulate its release may be the key to treating sepsis.

Legislation Targeting Sepsis

Sepsis Treatment: HMGB1

Catching sepsis early is essential to reduce the risk of mortality. To effectively identify early-onset sepsis, it is important to know the signs to look for and thoroughly understand the condition.

Sepsis-- Signs, Stats, and Facts

An exploration of the dangers of sepsis and an overview of how a seemingly minor bacterial, viral, parasitic, or fungal infection can result in a life-altering and potentially fatal condition.

What Is Sepsis?

This post focuses on summarizing and increasing the accessibility of a comprehensive review about psoriasis.

Pathophysiology, clinical presentation, and treatment of psoriasis

This post reviews the importance of advocating against psoriasis and multiple organizations that you can get involved in to achieve this end.

The Fight Against Psoriasis-- Organizations

This blog post discusses many different types of biologics and their role in treating various types of psoriasis.

Psoriasis Treatment: Biologics

A discussion of the signs, types, and treatments of psoriasis. 

Psoriasis-- Signs, Stats, and Facts

This blog post reviews what psoriasis is from a biological standpoint. We also discuss the risk factors associated with this disease.

What Is Psoriasis?

Welcome to DiscussMed! This is the first post of our new blog, where we will be porting over content from our old website.

New Website!

A blog detailing the importance of ADHD advocacy in the fight against the disorder. This blog also provides some opportunities to advocate at various ADHD-fighting organizations.

AIDS Advocacy: What Is It?

Cabenuva is a novel treatment method that assists in neutralizing HIV to ensure that it does not further develop into AIDS.

AIDS Treatment: Cabenuva

This blog post reviews the common symptoms relating to AIDS and specific statistics and facts to help enhance your understanding of this syndrome.

AIDS-- Signs, Stats, and Facts

How is AIDS spread? What is the difference between AIDS and HIV? How does HIV result in AIDS? These are the questions that are the focus of this blog post.

What Is AIDS?

In this post, we aim to describe research focusing on the different paths and considerations in treating or preventing multiple sclerosis. .

The challenge of multiple sclerosis: How do we cure a chronic heterogenic disease?

Passing legislation is essential in advancing the fight against multiple sclerosis in ways not possible through other means.

Important Legislation Helping Fight Multiple Sclerosis

Ponvory is a novel and recently FDA approved treatment for multiple sclerosis. To learn about how it works and what it does, read this blog post.

Multiple Sclerosis Treatment: Ponvory

What are the signs and symptoms of MS? How common is MS? Who is most at risk of developing MS? These questions and more are the focus points of this blog.

Multiple Sclerosis-- Signs, Stats, and Facts

This post breaks down the biology behind multiple sclerosis and its possible causes.

What Is Multiple Sclerosis?

Which organizations are leading the fight against heart disease? What organizations should I get involved in? These questions are the focus of this blog post.

What Organizations Should You Get Involved With to Fight Heart Disease?

How can heart disease be treated? This post will investigate the use of OPTIMIZER Smart interventions as a way to treat heart failure (a type of heart disease).

Heart Disease Treatment: OPTIMIZER Smart Mini

A comprehensive discussion of the basic information about heart disease such as symptoms, risk factors, statistics, and facts. 

Heart Disease-- Signs, Stats, and Facts

An investigation of the various types of heart disease and their corresponding possible causes.

What Is Heart Disease?

In this post, we focus on summarizing and synthesizing research that has found promising results in prolonging the lifespan of those afflicted with ALS.

Treatment with arimoclomol, a conducer of heat shock proteins, delays disease progression of ALS in mice

How can you get involved in the fight against ALS? This post will provide many different fundraisers which you can get involved in to help defeat ALS.

Fundraising Against ALS

Did you know there are currently only two treatments available for ALS? We will review one of the approved and effective treatments here.

ALS Treatment: Radicava

This blog post will provide some of basic and essential information about ALS, enabling you to be knowledgeable and show you why it is some important to join advocacy efforts in fighting it.

ALS-- Signs, Stats, and Facts

What is ALS? That is the main question this blog post aims to tackle by discussing and simplifying the biology behind the disease and connecting it to its possible causes.

What Is ALS?

This blog post will review some notable organizations that are leading the fight against autism.

The Organizations Fighting Autism

Is there a cure for autism? How do autism treatments work? What does the future of autism treatments look like? These questions and more will be answered in the following blog post.

Autism Treatment: PAX-101

This blog post will investigate some of the most common symptoms, telling statistics, and interesting facts relating to autism.

Autism-- Signs, Stats, and Facts

An exploration of what autism is and its likely causes.

What Is Autism?

In this post, we summarized research which was a synthesis of the possible ways Alzheimers treatments may work to mitigate the effects of the disease.

Treatment of Alzheimers disease

An in-depth investigation of the major pieces of national legislation that have greatly impacted the fight against Alzheimers disease.

Landmark Legislation in the Fight Against Alzheimers

Did you know that you can use peanut butter to test whether someone has Alzheimers disease? We will use this blog to explore this odd test and why it works.

Diagnosing Alzheimers Through Peanut Butter?

What symptoms are associated with Alzheimers disease? What are some statistics to help understand the scope and pervasiveness of Alzheimers disease? What are some interesting facts about the disease? The following blog post will explore these questions and more.

Alzheimers -- Signs, Stats, and Facts

This blog post will dive into what Alzheimers is and its possible/probable causes.

What Is Alzheimers Disease?

An overview, description, and commentary of some of the top fundraisers in the fight against sarcoma.

Fundraising Against Breast Cancer

A detailed discussion of the use of immunotherapy rather than chemotherapy as a means to treat sarcoma.

Breast Cancer Treatment: Ibrance

An overview of the symptoms, statistics, and facts relating to breast cancer.

Breast Cancer-- Signs, Stats, and Facts

What is breast cancer? What are the different types of breast cancer? What are its causes? We will explore the answer to these questions and more in this blog post.

What Is Breast Cancer?

There are many different types of schizophrenia with each case being unique. As a result, the quest to treat and ultimately cure schizophrenia must also be on an individual basis. This post will investigate and make more accessible research which discusses the possibility of making individualized cures to schizophrenia.

If there is not one cure for schizophrenia, there may be many

How can you make an impact in fighting schizophrenia? Where can you start? What organizations are leading this fight? These are the questions that we will explore the answers to in this blog post.

What Organizations Fighting Schizophrenia Should You Get Involved With?

Schizophrenia Treatment: Caplyta

An analysis of the symptoms, statistics, and interesting facts related to schizophrenia.

Schizophrenia-- Signs, Stats, and Facts

A review of what schizophrenia is and the various types and causes associated with it.

What Is Schizophrenia?

Fundraising Against Sarcoma

Sarcoma Treatment: Immunotherapy

In this blog post, the symptoms of, statistics about, and interesting facts about sarcoma will be explored.

Sarcoma-- Signs, Stats, and Facts

A detailed discussion of the what sarcoma is, the different types, and the causes.

What Is Sarcoma?

This piece of summarized research focuses on halting the progression of open-angle glaucoma and a new treatment to stop damage to the optic nerve.

Factors for glaucoma progression and the effect of treatment

In this blog post, we will provide summaries of the goals and missions of some of the major organizations involved in defeating glaucoma.

Notable Organizations Fighting Glaucoma

This is an in-depth yet accessible review of a novel and innovative treatment method for glaucoma: micro invasive glaucoma surgery.

Glaucoma Treatment: MIGS

This blog post aims to discuss and contextualize the symptoms, statistics, and interesting facts commonly associated with glaucoma.

Glaucoma-- Signs, Stats, and Facts

A general overview of what glaucoma is, risk factors associated with it, and different types of it.

What Is Glaucoma?

A blog post detailing the importance of ADHD advocacy in the fight against the disorder. This blog also provides some opportunities to advocate at various ADHD-fighting organizations.

Why Partake in ADHD Advocacy?

AZSTARYS is a novel treatment for ADHD. It is a stimulant that works longer and quicker than other ADHD treatments

ADHD Treatment: AZSTARYS

An overview of essential information about ADHD such as the symptoms, statistics, and interesting facts

ADHD-- Signs, Stats, and Facts

An explanation of the biology behind and causes of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

What Is ADHD?

This post is a summary of a study aiming at increasing the success rate of bone marrow transplants. We also hope to break down the complex concepts and terms used to make this information more accessible.

Long-term results of related myeloablative stem-cell transplantation to cure sickle cell disease

This blog post will review some notable organizations that champion the fight against sickle cell disease. The discussion of each organization will be a brief overview of their mission.

Organizations Fighting Against Sickle Cell Disease

Unlike many diseases discussed on discussmed.org, sickle cell disease can be cured through bone marrow transplants. This blog post will investigate and discuss such transplants.

Sickle Cell Disease Treatment: Bone Marrow Transplant

Description of the signs, statistics, and interesting facts commonly associated with sickle cell disease 

Sickle Cell Disease-- Signs, Stats, and Facts

An overview of what having sickle cell disease means and the probable causes and risk factors associated with it.

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Meet the Leading Organizations Fighting Arthritis

Arthritis-- Biological DMARDS

Arthritis-- Signs, Stats, and Facts

What Is Arthritis?

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