Disease

Huntington’s disease is a very serious disease that cannot be cured, but very few people are educated about this disease or have even heard of it. Huntington’s disease is becoming more common amongst American’s and globally each year and yet there is still not a cure for this disease. “More than a quarter of a million Americans have HD or are "at risk" of inheriting the disease from an affected parent.” (Huntington’s) Huntington’s is a hereditary disease that is passed from a parent to a child…

Cardiovascular Disease Cardiovascular disease or CVD is one of the leading causes of death in Australia. CVD refers to the diseases involving the heart and blood vessels. In 2016, 43,963 deaths were attributed to CVD. The main types of cardiovascular diseases are coronary heart disease, stroke and heart failure. Cardiovascular disease affects one in six Australians, equivalent to more than 4.2 million people and kills one person in Australia every 12 minutes. (2)(3) Coronary heart disease-…

the impact of Legionaries’ Disease to public health and its association with the role of a Public Health Inspector/Environmental Health Officer. Legionaries’ Disease is caused by roughly 35 Legionella bacteria species, with symptoms of severe pneumonia and psychological changes. (Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety, 2015) With an increase of the elderly population in North America and the use of statistical data, the predicted trend of Legionaries’ Disease cases is on the rise.…

Morgellons disease Morgellons disease is a poorly understood condition which a growing number of physicians believe to be a chronic infectious disease. The disease can be both disabling and disfiguring. The side effects incorporate tingling, gnawing and creeping sensations, "fibers" or strands which rise up out of the skin, skin injuries which run from minor to distorting, joint agony, weakening weariness, changes in insight, memory misfortune, inclination unsettling influence and genuine…

Alcohol Matthew J Rela Kean University HED 4333 Abstract This paper explores Huntington’s disease (HD) which is described as a genetic condition where a mutation occurs on the Huntington gene. This mutation has a specific pathophysiology that leads to the clinical manifestations of the disease. Due to the non-curable nature, the patient management is simply palliative care. Diagnostic and predictive testing can be performed; however, the results are merely to know if the mutation is…

Huntington’s Disease On April 19, 1999, Marie Clay took her 28-year-old daughter, Laurie Clay, to a counselor because she was at high risk of getting Huntington’s disease, a hereditary disease. Due to Laurie’s father, she would be clumsy, fat and forgetful as her father. This is Huntington’s disease, a fatal genetic disorder that causes the nerve cells in the brain to break down. If one of parents is the patient of the disease, each of their children will also inherit the disease by the…

that causes disease. Lyme Disease is caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi and is carried by ticks, and “as a result of a complicated sequence of events, people have become frequent accidental hosts for ticks and the disease agents they carry”. This connection is present because of the interaction between plant and animal species, or furthermore, the ecology of ecosystems, where both ticks and humans are present [Source: Ostfeld]. Symptoms of being infected with Lyme Disease include…

Alzheimer’s disease is nothing new to people from across the world. Some may ask what exactly is this sad and depressing disease? It is the most common form of dementia, which is the deterioration of the functions of the brain. It reports for approximately 70 percent of dementia cases (Alzheimer’s). The course of the disease is slow at destroying one’s memory and thinking abilities. Symptoms develop in people with Alzheimer’s in their mid-60s, but do not be fooled for it is not just found within…

Global Diseases Paper Global Health broadly includes cardiovascular, obesity, diabetes that are getting epidemic worldwide due to a variety of factors, some of which are connected to those that promote increased mortality from Global Infectious Disease (GID). Ischemic heart disease, stroke, lower respiratory infections and chronic obstructive lung disease have remained the highest killers throughout the past decade. Since the 1970’s new diseases have been identified at the unprecedented rate of…

considered as a disease due to the statistical fact that America has been recently recorded as the second most obese country in the world. When it comes to the topic of obesity, most of us will readily agree that there is a large percentage of the country that is overweight and/or obese. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is on the question of if obesity is considered as a medical illness, in other words, a disease. Whereas some are convinced that obesity is identified as a disease due…