Hashimoto’s Disease Hashimoto’s disease is an autoimmune disease that affects the production of hormones that are produced in thyroid gland. The thyroid is responsible for making the hormones called T3 and T4. These hormones are needed so that your body knows how to use energy. When a person has this autoimmune disease, their immune system has sent out the wrong information to the body. The body then produces antibodies that attack the thyroid. This can cause long term damage to the thyroid causing
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Andrea Harris Alzheimer’s Dementia Rasmussen College Authors Note This paper is being submitted on September 13, 2012 for Abnormal Psychology summer 2012 by Andrea Harris. Alzheimer’s Disorder is a disease that severely affects not only the person, but the family as well. There is no cure, only ways to slow down the progression. This disorder is not known by a lot of people or understood. The only way to do that is by educating. In this paper I hope to go over symptoms, treatments, diagnosis
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What is the infectious agent (pathogen) that causes this infectious disease? For example, the name of the bacteria, virus, or parasite. Gram-negative bacteria. Typhoid fever is cause by salmonella. Salmonella infections are zoonotic and can be transferred between humans and animals. This infection can survive outside a living body for weeks. A distinction is made between enteritis salmonella and horny/paratyphoid salmonella where the latter, because of a special virulence factor and a capsule protein
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Course PHED-1106-PY1 Walking and Fitness Test Quiz: Unit 7 - Lifestyle Diseases Started 7/9/13 8:03 PM Submitted 7/9/13 8:14 PM Status Completed Score 100 out of 100 points Time Elapsed 11 minutes out of 1 hour. Instructions Question 1 10 out of 10 points A cancer preventing diet should include Answer Selected Answer: 5. All of the above Question 2 10 out of 10 points Lifestyle choices affects which form of diabetes? Answer Selected Answer: 2. Type 2 Question 3 10
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Paper Title: cultural and disease paper Instructor : Dr Leah Miller Nabil Ladipo 04/05/13 Tuberculosis: Tuberculosis is disease caused bacterial infection. The infection is lower in the United States
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RAFT Task 1 Accreditation Case Study Name: Marissa D. Jose Instructor: Dr. Linda Joyce Gunn, CPHRM Course title: AFT2 Accreditation Audit Name of institution: Western Governor University Current Compliance Status for Infection Prevention and Control 1. Commission Standard: Infection Investigation/Identification Recently the hospital implements preventing spread of Infection. The hospital has a successful framework for controlling
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and antibiotics have reduced the prevalence of infectious disease. However, antibiotic-resistant strains of microorganisms and diseases such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease ,avian influenza and severe acute respiratory syndrome(SARS) have emerged. In the developing world successes such as the eradication of smallpox have been balanced or outweighed by the new plagues. Infectious diseases cause nearly 25% of all human deaths. Two billion people one-third
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Caregivers of Dementia patients Vascular dementia is the second most common form of dementia after Alzheimer’s disease. Caused by problematic supply of blood to the brain, symptoms include challenging communication, depression and anxiety, strokes, physical weakness or paralysis, confusion, changes in behaviour and difficulties in walking and unsteadiness. This paper discusses the problems faced by caregivers of patients suffering from vascular dementia who are above the age of 65 and possible
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the mice believe that they had been shocked in a setting in which they really had not (Castro 2013). The article ends with the author discussing some positive outcomes of memory engineering, such as being able to recreate memories lost by age or disease and erasing
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the most important procedure in eliminating infections to the body. The studies shown will discuss the effectiveness of hand washing in every setting throughout a community. In my first article that I read, “Effect of Hand Hygiene on Infectious Disease Risk in the Community Setting: A Meta-Analysis”, the authors did a meta-analysis to show the results of the benefits of hand hygiene as for preventing respiratory and gastrointestinal infection related illnesses. The article took a total of thirty
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