Medical diagnosis

In the 1980’s, Nancy Wexler contributed to advances in medicine by discovering a genetic marker that could indicate inherited disorders linked to chromosomes, such as Down’s Syndrome, Huntington’s Disease, and Tay-Sachs Disease (Vaughn, 2013, p. 566). Since then, prenatal genetic screenings have become widely accessible through simple, low-risk procedures such as carrier testing, blood tests, and ultrasounds. These procedures are only capable of reporting the risk for inheriting abnormalities…

Prenatal Genetic Testing: A Technology of Normalization Prenatal genetic testing is a technology made available to more accurately determine whether or not a child could have a birth ‘defect’. The most common birth defects tested for are Down syndrome, Trisomy 18, or an open neural tube defect (Government of Canada, 2013). This paper asserts first that prenatal genetic testing is a technology of normalization, which labels disability as abnormal and a feared outcome, and second that…

Introduction Genetic screening is a form of medical test that determines alterations in chromosomes, proteins or genes. The findings of genetic testing can reject or confirm suspected genetic condition or aid in identifying individual’s chance of passing or developing a genetic disorder. Currently, over one thousand genetic tests are in use, and more are emerging. Various methods can perform the genetic screening. For example, (1) Biochemical genetic tests which study the activity level or…

One of the medical conditions of the foot that affect an individual 's function is Morton 's neuroma (MN). MN initially identified by Queen Victoria 's surgeon ( Lewis Dulacher) in the year 1845. Dulacher (1845) recognized that MN is the formation of inflammation of the nerve affecting the distal plantar nerves (Dulacher,1945). Thomas Morton first described the clinical manifestation of MN in 1874 (Shishir & Wang, 2009). The signs and symptoms of MN are the pain in the proximal region of the…

Prenatal diagnosis has become of of the most important factors of the obstetrics practice, it diagnoses any complications or possible disorders, especially trisomy 21 (Down’s syndrome) of the unborn baby. The most common methods for prenatal diagnosis of trisomy 21 require invasive procedures, which includes Amniocentesis and Chorionic Villus Sampling (C.V.S), where it uses a sample of the fetal tissues. These two options carry a small but definite risk. Therefore, they could cause more…

ADHD is a highly over identified disability and is also overprescribed, since ADHD is highly over medicated health diagnoses should try to find alternative treatments. ADHD affects a lot of young kids and many adults but is mostly diagnosed for children in preschool and elementary. Affecting most kids, ADHD is also over identified in school children. When students are identified as having ADHD they are instantly labeled as having ADHD and get prescribed the drugs they need to help out with it.…

“Turner Syndrome” Origin of Discovery Can you imagine what it would be like to have Turner’s Syndrome what that is, is a chromosomal condition that affects the development in most females, a common feature in Turner’s Syndrome is a girls or womens natural Stature (height) and it becomes most obvious to girls around age 5, another common effect is an early loss of ovarian function (ovarian hypofunction or premature ovarian failure), Turner Syndrome was founded in 1938 by Dr. Henry Turner and…

Triple X Syndrome (Trisomy X) What is a genetic disorder? A Genetic disorder is inherited conditions caused by a DNA abnormality. Genetic disorders are caused by problems by one or more abnormalities in genomes. Usually apparent at birth. Genetic disorders are usually rare and impact one in several thousands, if not millions each day. For example Triple X syndrome affects 1 of 1,000 of females. Triple X Syndrome also known as (trisomy x) is a genetic disorder that deals with females…

a hypothetical issue. New genetic engineering technologies have rendered the ability to use non-medical sex selection, choosing between a boy and girl, through pre-implantation genetic diagnosis. There have been many debates about non-medical sex selection, questioning whether or not it is an ethical procedure. Non-medical sex selection should not be an option within pre-implantation genetic diagnosis because it is an unnecessary decision that is not beneficial to either the parents or the child…

genes to future generations. Likewise, humans also share this instinct, but recent technology has taken this a step further, sparking a great deal of controversy. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is a reproductive technology which can be used in conjunction with in vitro fertilization (IVF) for the diagnosis of a genetic disease in embryos prior to implantation and pregnancy. I believe that this use of PGD should be permitted and that this technology will forever change the lives of those…