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The Circulatory System By: Alvaro Jaramillo The Circulatory system is responsible fortransporting necessary substances through the entire body of all human individuals. It transports nutrients, water, and oxygen to your billions of body cells and carries away wastes such as carbon dioxide that body cells produce. The mean of transport from the heart and out are called arteries and the mean of transport to get back into the heart are called veins, capillaries are thin tissue that connect veins and arteries.It is an amazing highway that travels through your entire body connecting all your body cells.The heart is an amazing organ. An interesting statistic is that the heart beats about 3 BILLION times during an average lifetime. It is a muscle about the size of your fist. The heart is located in the center of your chest slightly to the left. Its job is to pump your blood and keep the blood moving throughout your body. Leukemia By: Daniel Diaz Leukemia is a cancerr of the blood cells and starts in the tissue that forms the blood.. While the exact causes of leukemia is not known, risk factors have been identified, but some of them are: Radiation, Radiation therapy or x ray exposure, smoking, Chemotherapy, Down syndrome, family history of leukemia. Leukemias are grouped by how quickly the disease develops (There are four groups and are acute or chronic) as well as by the type of blood cell that is affected. Some of the symptoms of chronic and acute leukemia are: Swollen lymph nodes that usually don't hurt, Fevers or night sweats, frequent infections, Feeling weak or tired, Bleeding and bruising easily, weight loss and pain in the bones or joints. The treatments for this desease are very agresive and can leave the person very weak, some of the options are watchful waiting, chemotherapy, targeted therapy, biological therapy, radiation therapy, and stem cell transplant. LInks Videos: [] [] [] Pictures: [] [] [] High Blood Pressure By: David Yonker High Blood Pressure is a chronic medical condition in which the blood pressure is always above average. Also known as hypertension, a person with high blood pressure technically has 140/90 torr (which is the unit of measuring). The factors that may make the individual more likely to have high blood pressure include high salt use, being overweight, occupation, drinking alcohol, family size, too much noise and crowding. Some interesting statistics about high blood pressure are: one in three U.S adults has high blood pressure, in 2010; high blood pressure was estimated that it would cost the United States $93.5 billion in health care services, medications, and missed days of work, and that women were less likely to get this disease. Links: [] Photos at: 1.  2.   3.  Videos at: 1. 2. 3.