Glycogen storage disease

Over the past decade the accounts of various coral diseases have been on the rise which had lead to the decimation of keystone species of corals throughout mainly the world’s tropical oceans. Since the mid-1990s, 18 coral diseases affecting at least 150 scleractinian, gorgonian, and hydrozoan zooxanthellate species have been described in the Caribbean and Indo-Pacific (Sutherland et al. 2004). Most of these diseases have been caused by bacterial, fungal, and protist type pathogens as well the…

themes include, but are not limited to: the use of heroic remedies, the use of religion to explain the cause of disease, and marginalized people denied aid. There is no argument that science has improved the lives of nearly everyone in some way shape or form. Regardless of the clear evidence that it is needed in medicine, there are still times when it is neglected in treating disease. New drugs are continually being produced for a plethora of ailments; however, the public is not always as safe…

Over the past century, the conditions of human disease have changed a lot from acute diseases to chronic diseases in most of developed countries, so we cannot look at it and treat it in the same ways as before anymore. Biomedical model, therefore, should be adjusted with or replaced by the wide-ranged social models that are more suitable and more effective for resolving modern health issues, because it is narrow and one-sided. Biomedical model is mainly focus on biomedical changes in human…

some people believe that vaccines given to young children can cause Autism, Ear infections, Asthma and ADHD. They also believe that vaccinated children are more likely to develop chronic diseases than those who are not vaccinated. Actually vaccinations are very important, because of immunization; some diseases that were a cause of millions of deaths a long time ago are now close to being extinct. In the 1950s Poliomyelitis was affecting over 35000 people each year, and now because of its…

There are many different types of roundworms around the world. The most common is pinworms. In this paper you will learn what a pinworm is, what are affected by them, what are some symptoms and signs, what are some of the risk factors, what a pinworms lifecycle is, what some of the economic losses are, what medical treatment you can do, and how you can prevent them. Pinworms are caused by infections by worm-like parasites in the intestines and anal areas of the body. Pinworms are usually white…

the United States, approximately 30,000 Americans have Huntington’s disease (HD). Huntington’s disease, also known as Huntington’s chorea, is an autosomal dominant disorder that causes selected neural cell death. With this disease comes concerns regarding what the disease is, its history, and its symptoms. In addition to those components, its stages, diagnoses, and treatments are of great importance as well. Huntington’s disease is a fatal genetic disorder that causes the progressive…

Medicine in the 1800s or also known as the “ Victorian Era “ was even considered medieval. Not many specialized physicians or drugs existed while terrible diseases such as Cholera or Typhoid dominated the lives of people. Also, the situation of treatment center such as hospitals and care centers were not advanced and taken care of such simple diseases. Although, great advancements in the profession were made such as a higher level of prestige training for doctors and the development of…

Tuberculosis is an extremely contatious disease for it is an airborne disease. This disease can spread rapidly in populated areas where people come in contact with each other easily. It can spread by simply breathing air around infected people. The containment of this disease is extremely important for it make it difficult for people to breath. Tuberculosis has spread rapidly in Russian prisons, which are very unsanitary and over- populated. The spread of this disease in prisons is…

have treatments to cure the disease and they would be dead and suffer from more than 200 diseases including diabetes and anthrax. As we have a treatments, some of diseases that humans used to suffer have been eliminated from most of the countries. Moreover, animals suffer from almost all of the disease that humans do. As a result, scientists use animals as a model in the experiment. As animals are a model for scientists, this will allow scientists to identify the disease and how it going to…

time Ebola was announced as a disease, people were oblivious to the idea that it could kill a person. Nobody thought it was that scary in the beginning. To really find out if Ebola was life threatening, a team of highly trained scientists came in to answer this question. The head of this group was Pardis Sabeti, who is an assistant professor of evolutionary and organismic biology at Harvard University. Dr. Sabeti studies the evolution and effects of infectious diseases and their effect towards…