Jaundice

Prevention,” one out of every 500 Black or African-American births produce children with sickle cell disease”(Centers For Disease Control Prevention 2015). Diagnoses of the disease occur when several symptoms appear in an individual. Symptoms such as jaundice, pale skin color, episodic pain in the joints, gallstones, pain and swelling in hands and/or feet, fatigue and more (University of Maryland Medical Center). These symptoms often found in diagnosis entails impacts of either short, long and…

The liver is the organ that has multiple functions to the human body. Some of these functions are the production of certain proteins that for blood plasma, cholesterol, and storage of glucose and releasing when the body needs it. All of these functions can be distrusted when the liver cells are effected which leads to liver cancer, also known as hepatocellular carcinoma is a cancer that grows in the liver cells. These cells are malignant, and abnormal growth of liver cancer. Also liver cancer is…

Many diseases of this time period were an immediate death sentence. With malaria, a mosquito bite led to chills and eventual death. Yellow fever can be transmitted through mosquito bites as well and often begins as a simple fever that turns into jaundice and then causes cell deterioration in internal organs. Organ failure is frequently the cause of death, and there has never been a cure. These are just a couple of examples of the diseases that seemed to contribute to the devastation of American…

HSC BIOLOGY: THE SEARCH FOR BETTER HEALTH RESEARCH ASSESSMENT - HEPATITIS B OVERVIEW OF HEPATITIS DISEASES Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver (In Latin, hepatitis means “of the liver”) caused either by a toxic substance (viral infection from direct damage e.g. alcohol) or bacterial and viral infection. Hepatitis is a family of viral infections that damage the liver; most common types are Hepatitis A, B and C. About 500 million people globally are infected by one of six hepatitis…

Whatever the traveler carries, it can possibly deadly to the region. This route is open for anyone to voyage through for fear that diseases can be able to transmit (Choi). For instance, there was a parasite which “causes abdominal pain, diarrhea, jaundice…” and this could eventually lead to serious things, such as liver cancer (Choi). Even animals wander around and they were not as clean as humans, so who knows what is on them or what disease they could possibly be carrying. Fleas were…

If you think, as some do today, that many drugs used as medicines are potentially deadly, consider what people living in medieval times were prescribed as curative agents—from ground up corpses to toxic mercury to crocodile dung. The annals of medieval medical history are full of substances that make us cringe. Yet people believed in these cure-alls and willing took them when prescribed by a doctor of the Middle Ages. While we may laugh or shudder at these strange potions and treatments, we…

The clinical diagnosis for sickle cell anemia is usually only evident in the patients who are heterozygous for the Hemoglobin S allele. The signs and symptoms that are suggestive of sickle cell anemia include acute fever, relative hypertension, jaundice, ulcers, increase in respirations in acute chest syndromes, cough and hyperactive precordium. The patients may also experience joint pains…

Homeostasis is the maintenance of a constant environment in an organism in response to internal and external stimuli. Organisms must maintain homeostasis to stay alive because stimuli can cause mild to severe effects. Cells require nutrients like oxygen, and a constant temperature. One disruption to homeostasis to homeostasis would be a lack of nutrients like oxygen by increasing the rate of respiration to increase oxygen to the body. Another disruption to homeostasis would be a change in…

At one time, Sickle Cell was seen as a great mutation. Soon, that great mutation became deadly. Being the first genetic disorder with a molecular basis that was known, Sickle Cell is the most common inherited blood disorder in the United States. Sickle Cell is more than just one disease. There are three types: trait, anemia, and the actual disease. Sickle Cell trait is present when only one gene of the disorder is inherited. In people with the trait, Hemoglobin S is heterozygous. Sickle Cell…

with blank (Medscape Nurses, 2007; Nutbeam, 2008). Thus, TOFHLA meanly tests the reading fluency of patients. The Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine (REALM) consists of a list of 66 medical words of different levels such as fat, pelvic jaundice and osteoporosis. The examiner scores the patients based on their capabilities of recognizing and pronouncing each words correctly (Barker, 2006; Medscape Nurses, 2007). Thus REALM meanly focuses on patients’ level of medical-related vocabulary.…