thousand people have Huntington’s disease, and two hundred thousand are at-risk of inheriting the disease. Huntington’s disease is a genetic disease that can effects all races, both sexes, and even juveniles. It is an autosomal dominant disorder, meaning you only need one defective gene to develop the disorder, so if one of your parents have the disease there is a fifty percent chance that you have it. Unfortunately there is currently no cure for Huntington’s disease but there are many symptoms to lead
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Almost every woman is infected by the Bacterial vaginosis at some point of time in their life. Also called as BV, bacterial vaginosis is the medical condition that refers to excessive growth of bacteria in the vagina. Bacteria, the micro organisms are generally found in the moist vagina and it should be held at a certain level. BV is an annoying and sometimes the depressing health condition due to the excessive vaginal discharge with fishy odour that brings a lot of discomfort. Fortunately, Bacterial
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Cardiovascular Disease Tiffany Lyons HCA/240 - HEALTH & DISEASES: UNDERSTANDING PATHOS OF PATHOLOGY September 19, 2011 Instructor: DEBRA SALYERS Cardiovascular Disease Cardiovascular disease is an abnormal function of the heart or blood vessels. This disease can cause a heart attack, heart failure, sudden death, stroke and cardiac rhythm problems, thus resulting in decreased quality of life and decreased life expectancy. In America many people suffer from heart disease some knowingly
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fields for example agriculture, medicine and genetics. As much as we discover about this fields we are getting closer to live longer and healthier. Science makes world a better place to leave. People used to die from hunger or from really simple disease but now science change everything. The development of agriculture improved the agricultural productivity and increased the growthof food. So by human’s population growth we are beadle to provide more food. The death caused by hunger is become less
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onset of diseases so the purpose of personalized medicine is to react to the individual’s symptoms in the way, with personalized treatment (Jain, 2007). Personalized medicine primary goal and target is to make a treatment as individualize as the person receiving the treatment. This method involves identifying genetic, genomic, and clinical information that will allow accurate predictions to be made about an individual’s susceptibility to a developing disease, the course of that disease and the response
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to go deeper and see clearly. With the new invention they could go into surgery only removing the diseased tissue and advance then to see deeper in the human body. With cancer being such a big problem more and more scientist tried to tackle this disease and make theories about them. For example there was the humoral theory, lymph theory, blastema theory, chronic irritation theory and the trauma theory. These theories developed over time and have one another with the flaws that they include. One
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Interrupters” by Steve James and Alex Kotlowitz is based on a group of individuals that are part of Ceasefire, a Chicago anti-violence program. Gary Slutkin, the founder of Ceasefire, believes that the spread of violence is very similar to the spread of disease, and so he believes that the treatment should be analogous. In order to stop the infection, one must go after the most infected, the source. The main goal of the violence interrupters is to simply stop killings and to save as many lives as possible
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deficiency of an enzyme catalyzing its conversion to glucose. Galactosemia is caused by the lack of a liver enzyme that is needed to metabolize Galactose. It's transmitted by the presence of 2 recessive mutant genes on a autosome. It's also a very rare disease. Galactosemia usually occurs in infants. Some of the symptoms are, vomiting, yellowish color in the skin, when the baby refuses to drink milk/ formula's, poor weight gain, laziness, irribality, and convulsions. Galactosemia is very rare, but it is
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technology may lead to personalized medicine. By using DNA technologies such as stem cell research and cloning manipulate human genes. Patients with common disease genetic abnormalities and even spinal injuries may use genetic technology to create personal medicine that may be able to improve and prolong life. An individual risk for common disease would be determined by a genetic profile created from this technology. To create a medical profile tailored to specific DNA characteristics of each patient
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Clarence Taylor Biology Disease Research 19 September 2012 Diphtheria Diphtheria is an acute infectious disease, which means that it is sudden or severe. The bacteria called Corynebacterium diphtheriae cause it. It is a non-motile and a gram-positive non- spore-bearing organism. Corynebacterium diphtheriae is a club shaped organisms that produce a dangerous toxin. The known symptoms of diphtheria are a bluish coloration of the skin, bloody watery drainage from the nose, breathing problems, chills
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