Reason for choosing disease The reason why I chose this disease for further research, is because of an infant in San Joaquin County that had died on the fifth of this month and year. The infant was three weeks old and is the county’s first death from this particular disease. So this incident intrigue me to learn and do more research on this disease. The name of the disease and the etiology The name of this disease is Pertussis and also known as the Whooping cough. According to the CDC website,
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cancer has been found. The holy grail of modern medicine has been discovered. But there is one problem – it is locked up inside a top secret government facility restricted to the public. Why so? Because there is far more money to be made in treating a disease than curing it. Why cure someone of cancer in a day if they can be treated for it their entire life and bill them every step along the way? This is modern day society. It is the vivid reality of the dystopian world portrayed in George Orwell’s 1984
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may think that in today's society we have found a cure for every disease out there but that's not the case. There are a lot of illnesses that people have and we have not found a cure. Without a cure most people who are affected will never get cured and will live with a sick lifestyle for the rest of their life's which can lead to potential death. This is why we have laboratories across the world to help us find the cures to diseases and try and save peoples lives. With the laboratory we are able
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A lot of infections can develop inside the mouth or around it. These infections can come about due to a wide number of reasons. Maybe they first started off with burns due to hot food but later turned into infections. Maybe bacterial levels spiked up due to your diet or failure to brush your teeth or use mouth wash at the right time. A lot of them look really nasty but aren’t all that serious. Some look quite harmless, but can actually pose a threat to your health by making you susceptible to infection
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Palpable masses are the most common way that abdominal wall lesions are found. This article discusses all the different types of abdominal lesions and how ultrasound aids in the finding of these. When there is doubt about a palpable mass in the abdomen, a sonography examination will be done to determine if it is in the abdominal wall or the abdominal cavity. High frequency (5 to 12 MHz) was used to scan all patients using a linear transducer. To show the lesion in perspective to adjacent structures
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Deadliest Cancers There are over 200 types of cancers. Many are very deadly, while others are fightable. The least deadly is testicular cancer with an estimated death per year is 380 out of 8,720 men, survival percentage is 98%. The next is skin cancer, in the U.S. there are an estimated 76,380 people diagnosed each year, 10,130 people die from the 76,380 diagnosed, survival percentage 89%. Those are only a few of the least deadly, but what is the survival percentage of the deadliest? Some of the
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Cancer is a disease that the world has been trying to fight for a long time. There are many types of cancers, some malignant and some benign. Doctors have attempted to successfully treat cancer numerous ways like chemotherapy and radiation, however, recently a new way has been discovered. A new procedure called TALEN's was used to treat a one year old girl, who is fighting leukemia. TALEN's is the process of gene editing where doctors use scalpels to slice out mutated genes. The one year old, Layla
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Pathology Assignment 1 – Essay. Candidate No 690814 Describe the four signs of inflammation and explain how each develops. What benefit is derived from the development of each sign? Introduction To quote Tortora and Derrickson (2009), “Inflammation is a non-specific, defensive response of the body to tissue damage”. The most common causes of tissue damage are physical and chemical trauma, and infections. And, the classical four external signs of inflammation are described as: redness (erythema
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of this disorder start to appear around the newborn period. This disorder is devastating, causing problems to various organs and parts of the human body. These effects are usually life threatening, and currently there are no known cures. Zellweger disease, usually means certain death for any infant born with it. Some symptoms of ZWS become apparent right around the first few hour of life. Examples of these symptoms include poor muscle tone, abnormal skeletal growth, liver dysfunction, loss of hearing
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The world of medicine is always moving forward expanding, finding answers, and taking new turns. Xenotransplantation could be the next big step. It could change the face of medicine and we, as the FFA, coud take part in this big move. Xenotransplantation is the transplantation of non-human organs or cells into a human body. An example of this is when they replace someone’s heart valve with that of a pig. Pigs are the most common donor when it comes to xenotransplantation. This is because they mature
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