Diseases and disorders

These aren’t just statistics, but people just like us who have suffered and died from a preventable disease; Encephalitis. My name is Jarrah McLoskey, and I am an English historian specialising in disease outbreaks. My colleagues are German virologist Dr Nuria Olive, Dr Maigan Wilson from Australia, and Sarah Moore, a US public health official. We are here to inform you about this worldwide disease, and to propose a national strategy to reduce the occurrence and prevent the spread of…

What is cancer? Every day billions of mutations occur in human cells, but some of them make the cell cancerous. Cancer, one of the leading cause of death in the world, is a disease caused by occurring mutation in many genes of a cell, not just one gene, which changes underlying principles of the cell molecular action, such as the cell cycle, growth trend, signaling, and its specific death time.(2) The most crucial characteristic of a cancer cell is the excessive, uncontrolled growth cycle…

diagnosed in the United States and 595,690 will die from the disease. The most common cancers in 2016 are projected to be Breast Cancer, lung and bronchus cancer, prostate cancer, colon and rectum cancer, bladder cancer, melanoma of the skin, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, thyroid cancer, kidney and renal pelvis cancer, leukemia, endometrial cancer, and pancreatic cancer.("Cancer Statistics." National Cancer Institute) Cancer is a serious disease that may be preventable and curable. I will discuss what…

Haemochromatosis is a genetic disease that causes its victims to store too much iron in their body. This is a very serious problem in today’s society, yet I do not feel that there is enough recognition for it. It’s not recognized as widely as cancer, but if left untreated, it can grow to be just as serious. I believe it should be recognized as widely at cancer, because it is just as dangerous. This disease is important because it can and will do major damage to the body if left untreated.…

Cancer, a disease that claims the lives of millions of individuals each year. Almost everyone in the world seems to be familiar or knows a loved one or friend with cancer these days. Cancer is so common that nearly 7.6 million people die from it around the world each year, and the number is progressively getting larger. The main question in today’s time is “Why doesn’t everyone get cancer?” Studies show that lifestyle, genetic disposition, and chance are reasons that people do get cancer.…

Throughout the years, scientists have been looking for cures and answers to dementia. Friederich H. Lewy discovered Lewy Body Dementia, being the second most common form of dementia right under Alzheimer’s disease. More than 1.3 Americans have been diagnosed with Lewy Body Dementia. Research on Lewy Body Dementia and new forms of medications have made progress since it was first discovered making it a little easier to cope with but still no promising cures. Lewy body is a severe yet relatively…

The absence of disease or the promotion of wellbeing is the primary goal of public health work. The first level of prevention is to avert the disease or injury from even occurring. Public health’s biomedical research has seen great advances toward prevention. Public health measures have successfully mitigated infectious disease, environmental teratogens, and even genetic disorders. The identification of how underlying factors play an adverse role in an individual’s health have enabled a…

sociology at Brandeis University and was a well accomplished and respected educator who enjoyed dancing. During summer in 1994 Morrie Schwartz was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease; he died 4 years later. After learning of his disease, Morrie decided to make the act of death and dying into a scholastic opportunity: The living would learn from his experience with death. "When you learn how to die," Morrie said, "you learn how to live."…

Jon Underwood is the founder of Death Café, a large movem ent where people gather to drink tea, eat cake and discuss death. Their aim is to increase awareness of death to help people make the most of their (finite) lives. Jon spoke to Global Inno vation Magazine about his current crowdfunding campaign and what made him start in the fi rst place. Tell us about yourself, where did you grow up? I grew up in Chester, which is near Liverpool in the North West of Eng land. My dad was an…

Why was Geography abandoned in American higher education after WWII? Many people developed a sensitivity towards the subject. Huntington spoke of how in his day, the subject was given to a targeted audience. Geography was distributed among peoples of “merit and wisdom,” being of the same party as Huntington. They found geography to contain racial slurs. This caused the subject to lose credibility, and people turned aggressive towards different group comparisons. After the negative stigma was…