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    A century ago, the humankind had no idea about tumor necrosis factor (TNF); however, physician William B Cooley was able to demonstrate the principle of anti-tumoral response in vivo as early as in 1891 (1,2). He escalated the idea of anti-tumoral response based on his observation of remission of lesions in patients injected with a mixture of dead Streptococcus pyogenes and Serratia marcescens bacteria (1, 2). Due to the lack of understanding of mechanism behind this observation, it was not…

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    Trench Fever In Ww1

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    particularly the shins.” This demonstrates how having this disease caused the pain to be caused all over the soldier’s body, making him unable to fight. Additionally, not only was the disease painful but it also spread easily. The soldiers were always fearful of getting it because they could get it any day and any time of the day without knowing it. It was easily spread throughout the soldiers because it was very contagious and the carriers of the disease and the ones that started were lice.…

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    Throughout the years illnesses have occurred worldwide, and have including both terminal and temporary in character. Illnesses present in many forms including the flu virus, bacterial infections, allergies, common colds, and cancers. The types of medicine we use to treat these illnesses can be costly and, in some cases, harmful to our bodies. Chemotherapy cancer treatment is destructive to the cancer being treated, but also has nasty side effects including destruction of the body. Additionally,…

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    Cancer is the leading cause of death worldwide and cause more them13 percent of death each year. The cell in your body can cause cancer. They’re many type of cancer and ways to save your life. Why is cancer cause in people body? Doctor understand that cancer is genetics, meaning that changes to various genes in the body can lead to cancer. If a cell reproduce or mutated every few weeks. The mutation in the cell may cause cancer, but extremely rare if it does cause cancer. Cancer cause in older…

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    The disease i am going to talk about is cancer, cancer is an uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the body. How does cancer from cancer forms or develops when the body’s normal function for control stops working it happens like this old cells don’t die instead they grow not just any normal growth it’s an out of control type of growth with this growth it destroys the surrounding tissue it could possibly spread to other areas in a process called metastasis how does metastasis do this well it…

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    Have you ever heard about cancer? More importantly what is cancer? In order for you to understand what cancer is we’ll need to talk about the cell cycle and then what makes a normal cell into a cancerous cell. Then this will tie into a charity that we picked for cancer, but cancer is something very serious that should be taken serious. The cell cycle is a cycle in which all cells do so they can replicate and take cover for dead cells. In order for them to do that they must go through all…

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    Modes of infectious disease transmission Infectious diseases are contagious contra -indications towards beauty treatments, created by organisms such as bacteria, fungi or viruses. The human body carries many living organisms internally and externally that are treatable, although if left undiagnosed the organisms may cause disease. Bacterial Infections, (Impetigo, Conjunctivitis or Styes), Viral Infections (Herpes Simplex, Shingles or Warts), Infestations (Scabbies, Head lice or Pediculosis)…

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    $245billion was utilized in funding diabetes and their related complications in 2012. Despite the high cost, the paramount goal of the “healthy people 2020 program” is to reduce the prevalence of the condition and reduce the economic burden (Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2011). This paper seeks to highlight on the goals and objectives of the program with regard to the impact of type 2 diabetes on health care costs. An analysis of the…

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    social factors continually interact with biological influences in disease and illness. Developed by Dr. George Engel, the biopsychosocial model places value of lifestyle and health related behaviours as influences in health and in disease. In comparison to the earlier Biomedical Model, which focused purely on biological factors, Engel believed psychological and social factors had contributions to the cause, prevention and treatment of disease (Lakhan, 2006). In an effort to combine biological,…

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    Choosing Health

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    areas. Health trainers give advice and support to individuals about healthy living and advice them in how they can make healthier lifestyle choices, so they can live a healthy life and lower the chances in getting life threatening diseases such as coronary heart disease and stroke. This reason behind this programme which was that individuals would respond to health trainers and that they would get better results. Health trainers are usually from the community where the individual is from so they…

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