Glycogen storage disease

Rosacea is a chronic disorder that typically affects the face. It is characterized by persistent redness usually on the forehead, cheeks, and nose but in rare cases can also spread to the scalp, ears, neck, and chest. The actual cause of the disorder is not fully known and it’s estimated that about 16 million Americans have some form of rosacea. People of all races can get rosacea, however, it is more prevalent in fair-skinned people of northern European descent (Irish, German, English, etc.)…

Aicardi-Gutieres syndrome (AGS) was first described in 1984 as a familial progressive encephalopathy, and has since been reported in several cases from various ethnic backgrounds (3). The condition is considered a Mendelian mimic of congenital TORCH infection, and is characterized by spasticity, dystonia, delayed psychomotor development, chronic cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leukocytosis, and leukodystrophy. Microcephaly, hepatosplenomegaly and cortical blindness can be seen in severe cases.…

helmet-like features, such as a broad, flat nasal bridge, high forehead, widely-spaced eyes/protruding eyes. Other features could be shortened distance between the upper lip and nose, downturned mouth or a smaller chin. It is a particularly rare disease, noting it is only present in about 1 in 50,000 births. There is also a condition called Pitt-Rogers-Danks syndrome that overlaps with Wolf-Hirschhorn, but only recently have researchers realized that they’re both in a single syndrome. Other…

Every year one thousand nine hundred and sixty kids from ages zero to nineteen die from cancer each year. Hazel Lancaster thought she was of the unlucky few after she was diagnosed with Stage Four Thyroid Cancer. Waiting for time to clock her out was all she ever looked forward to. Until a mysterious boy came into her life through support group meetings Hazel was waiting to implode. In John Green novel The Fault In Our Stars, Hazel Lancaster rebels against her society’s unfair limitation towards…

second leading cause of cancer related death, placing it just behind lung cancer (8)(9). The American Cancer Society estimates 48,960 new cases of pancreatic cancer for year 2015, and is estimated that 40,560 of these patients will succumb to the disease (8). These numbers highlight the extremely dismal diagnosis of pancreatic cancer, which has a median survival <6 months and a 5-year survival rate below 5% (10). The majority of diagnosed pancreatic…

The Causes of Cancer Cancer is one of the top leading deaths in the world today. It contains many diseases in which abnormal cells divide uncontrollably and destroy body tissue. Cancer can start almost anywhere in the human body, and will continue to grow further. There are more than a hundred types of cancer. These types have many leading causes, some of them being radiation, air pollution, and genetics. One cause of cancer is radiation. Most people think of radiation as nuclear bombs or…

moment, there is no cure for cancer; it’s often recognized as a death sentence. Cancer is caused by a genetic mutation in a cell, causing it to divide uncontrollably. Not only cancer, but multiple diseases are genetic, fatal, and incurable. Examples of which include HIV, cystic fibrosis, Huntington's disease, and many others. Due to this, the question becomes, “Are there safe therapies for correcting genetic mutations?” Ten years ago, the answer would have been a resounding, “No.” However, since…

There is an old saying “death begins in the gut.” In 1908 Ellie Methchnikoff won the Nobel Prize for medicine for his research on intestinal flora and the connection of the aging process. Methchnikoff believed toxic bacteria in the colon caused us to get old. He was not the first to connect longevity with colon health. Over 2000 years earlier Hippocrates said that “death sits in the the bowels” and “bad digestion is at the root of all evil.” Physicians today still do not know enough about the…

Cancer has been a problem for years and even with advancements in medicines advancement, it’s still a leading cause for death in the US. Due to this doctors are have been researching about cancer. In the article “Metastasis as an evolutionary process” by Samura Turajilie and Charles Swanton, is a research on how metastasis has evolved over the years. They see how random cancer can spread through multiple routes in different and how that makes it hard to cure it. The article goes over how hard…

In the past years, cancer has been a common reason for death. Research shows that the older you get the more risk you have of getting cancer. There are current trends about cancer specifically related to age. I am writing this essay to explain these current trends. The current trends about cancer specifically related to age are increasing. One trend that is increasing is life expectancy at birth by race and sex. In Document I, the graph shows that a black man from ages 60-70 has an increasing…