Tay-Sachs disease, cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia, and hemophilia. Lastly Chorionic villus sampling (CVS) is a technique where fetal tissues are collected from membrane that surrounds the fetus. CVS can be used to diagnose chromosomal, metabolic, and blood-borne conditions. Down syndrome is a genetic disorder and a condition that cannot be physically passed around like a disease. It is inherited from your parents. We normally have 23 pairs of chromosomes, each made up of genes. The cells of a
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Name | | Course Title | BTEC Level 3 Diploma in Health and Social Care | Unit | Unit 12:Public Health | Assignment | 12. 2 Factors affecting the health of the public | Assessor | Mrs J Cook | Issue Date | | Submission Date | | Return date | | Grading Criteria | 1 | 2 | P3 | Describe current patterns of ill health and how they are monitored | | | | | | | P4 | Explain the main factors affecting current patterns of health in the UK | | | | | | | M2 | Discuss the factors
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families who want children and no children should be thought of as unwanted. They believe abortions can lead to other medical complications, such as increasing the risk of doubling ectopic pregnancies, miscarriages, infection, and pelvic inflammatory disease. Those who have been victims of rape or incest should be given the proper medical care to prevent pregnancy and consider the
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Hematology - CKD M’Lyn Spinks Combating anemia in chronic kidney disease (CKD) with erythropoietin-stimulating agents (ESAs) has been shown to improve both mental and physical factors (Iranian, 2013). Erythropoietin (EPO) is a protein hormone produced by the kidney that binds with receptors in the bone marrow and stimulates erythrocyte production (Munk, 2013). Perceptions of quality of life, cognition, sexual function, symptoms of depression and socialization are all scored higher in patients
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Phlebotomy is the process of drawing blood for any type of testing, diagnosis, or analysis. Blood contains two parts which are cells and fluids such as plasma and serum. Plasma is a fluid that contains substances which may be glucose, protein, or water. Serum is the fluid that remain after the blood is allowed clotting in the tube. Blood can help control fluid balance, body acid balance, and body temperature. According to MedlinePlus, Blood test can help diagnose or analyze of a patient health. These
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Moreover, pressure inside the bone due to some medical conditions such as sickle cell anemia, which increase the pressure inside the bone and make harder to flow the fresh blood into the bone. Avascular necrosis is more risk of those people who has multiple medical conditions such as under the chemotherapy, dialysis, and chronic use of steroid therapy, lupus disease, and sickle cell anemia. In addition, a person who uses alcohol excessively would have very high risk to have avascular
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geneticstheteach.org) But the mutations we hear about the most are the ones caused by sickness. Mutations caused by a single gene are some of the most well known diseases such as cystic fibrosis and sickle cell anemia. Most inherited genetic diseases are recessive, meaning a person must have two copies of the mutated gene to inherit the disease. Diseases caused by only one defective gene are extremely rare. Natural selection tends to change over time because the carriers are most likely dieing before having
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A paediatrician are also another type of doctor, they are specialised in caring for babies and children. A midwife may ask for paediatrician assistance if they are concerned about any health issues related to the baby’s growth, development or any diseases that the baby may have. Midwifes may ask a social worker to help support pregnant women who have issues that are a cause of concern, for example: women suffering from domestic violence, drug abuse, live in poor conditions and young teenage mothers
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important organ that is part of lymphatic system. It is an internal body organ in the abdomen just underneath the left rib cage. Spleen lies between fundus of stomach and diaphragm. In addition, “it is the largest collection of reticuloendothelial cells in the body and is composed of sponge like tissue of two types: red pulp, which is the dark reddish brown substance filling the interspaces of the sinuses of the spleen, and white pulp, which consists of sheaths of lymphatic tissue surrounding the
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The genetics of cancer * Cancer is when mitosis goes wrong! * Cancer cells lack regulated ability to divide only when needed so they divide uncontrollably. * Hyperplasia- Beginning of cancer development; heightened cell division that can create tumor (neoplasm) * Dysplasia- The change in cells/tissue * Cancer cells go from being complex to primitive—which means cancer cells lose their shape, size and ability to function like normal cells * Cancer originates due to mutations within the DNA, in
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