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    Cystic Fibrosis is a life-threatening, genetic disease that causes persistent lung infections and progressively limits the ability to breathe, which has approximately affected 30,000 people in the United States and an estimate of 70,000 people worldwide (NHlBI,2013). The disease is most common among children and young adults. I will now begin to inform you about the cause, the symptoms and how to treat Cystic Fibrosis. Cystic Fibrosis affects the respiratory tract, the digestive tract, the…

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    Lyme Disease Papers

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    During the warmer months, talk of Lymes disease always surfaces. People and their pets are out and about more, so it makes sense that the chances of contracting the disease is more likely. But is it? According to the Center for Disease Control, about 300,000 are diagnosed with Lyme disease in the US every year. Seems like the odds are pretty good that someone you know will get Lyme disease. What exactly is Lyme disease? It is a bacterial infection transmitted by Ixodes ticks. These ticks are…

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    Introduction: Age related change is one of the most common causes of vision loss around the world, affecting between 30 to 50 million people worldwide. As suggestive of the name, age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is most prevalent in adults over the age of 60. Of the cases of AMD, about 90 percent are dry AMD for which no effective treatment exists [1]. The retina is the nerve tissue lining the inside of the eye which begins the conversion of light into vision. The macula,…

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    Paper On Cystic Fibrosis

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    Cystic Fibrosis What is Cystic Fibrosis? Cystic Fibrosis is a genetic disease that is one of the most common and lethal. The disease is usually noticeable in the victim by the age of 3 and impairs their ability to breathe and digest normally. This genetic disease is caused by a mutation of the CFTR gene (cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator). Everyone does have this gene, but only when it is mutated can it cause Cystic Fibrosis. Normally, the CFTR gene produces a protein whose job…

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    that having freckles could bring the possibilities of having skin cancer. Based on a video interview made to Dr. Jablonski—an American anthropologist and palaeobiologist, she said that “freckles are like cancer factories because feel melanin is producing negative chemicals”(“Freckles: Evolutionary Advantage or 'Cancer Factories"). Eventually, making people fearful of getting “the MC1R gene that somehow can play a role in the cancer initiation or growth” (Healy). In other words, when it comes to…

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    Situs Inversus Essay

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    In just 9 months a single cell, no bigger than a speck, of dust transforms into the most sophisticated organism on the plane, a human fetus. It all begins with the moment of fertilization, but days after it can take the most unexpected turn. Any tiny change or mutation in a gene can cause genetic disorders once you are born. It’s possible to inherit a gene mutation from one or both parents or, a condition caused by a DNA abnormality. There are so many rare conditions that are still being…

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    Vitiligo Research Papers

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    Vitiligo is an illness that was discovered early in the history. There are a lot of civilizations and religions had some opinion about the deficiency of pigmentation in the human body. "Small blemish" was the first and old name that is related to vitiligo more than 1500 years. In the 1879, Moritz Kaposi was the first one who discovered the lack of pigment granules of the vitiligo. In the last century, the name Vitiligo has been used to explain the illness process of losing the pigment cells.…

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    Sorafenib Case Studies

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    Sorafenib: Sorafenib is used as targeted therapy for those patients affected by papillary thyroid cancer or medullary thyroid cancer. In a phase III trial, patients were subjected to a double blind, randomized experiment, in which patients were effectively treated with surgery or RAI previously. However, these eligible patients had distant metastatic sites, and were RAI-refractory, which are remnants of cancerous tumors found elsewhere in the body that were not treated in their previous…

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    Background: Emergency thoracotomy is a rare but lifesaving procedure in victims of chest trauma especially with penetrating wounds. In the United States, 9 percent of all trauma-related deaths occur from injuries to the thorax, of which one-third involve a penetrating mechanism. In an internal survey, 80% of cardiothoracic surgeons felt that special training is required and only 7% reported that they regularly practice emergency thoracotomy in arrest. We plan to develop an emergency thoracotomy…

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    Introduction: Sparse evidence outline whose infections are responsible for hospital admission in Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Their location, severity and prognosis are unknown. Our aim was to characterize infections requiring hospitalization in MS patients. Methods: We performed a retrospective study of MS patients admitted to our hospital between 2006 and 2014. We collected information about MS characteristics, location and severity of infection, need for Intermediate/Intensive Care Units (ICU)…

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