Parkinson's disease

many diseases in the world today it is pretty much impossible to find a cure for all of them. One of the diseases that doctors have been studying and have so far, unsuccessfully found a cure for is Tay—Sachs Disease. If I were a Genetic Counselor who had to speak with a couple and inform them about their child having the disease, I would provide them with the following information and approach them as follows: Your child has been diagnosed with a disease referred to as Tay—Sachs Disease, a…

into the brain, infecting with diseases, long term social isolation, and the list go's on and on. Vivisection is one of the worst kinds of animal abuse in our society and it is a sanctioned and legal abuse. The harm caused by animal experimentation is not only cruel but also ineffective. Animals don’t get the same diseases as humans. Instead laboratories induce signs of major types of diseases into the animals to mimic a human disease. After years of studying diseases such as cancer, diabetes,…

the body, the government should legalize medical marijuana because of all the health benefits is has toward people with medical marijuana. One of the most widely-used medical uses for this drug is to reduce the pain that patients experience from diseases that they have. Patients with neuropathic pain are the ones with the most decrease in pain when having had an intake of marijuana. Statistics state show a 34% reduction…

syndrome. Marden-Walker syndrome is a rare inherited connective tissue disorder (3). This disease involves the oral cavity, facial features and other body parts. This disorder has distinct facial features that can allow you to differientiate this disease from others. Marden-Walker syndrome is a very rare disease. It affects males more often then females (4). There have only been twenty reported cases of this disease (4). Specific sympotoms of Marden- Walker syndrome inlcude: a high arched…

(Charcot-Marie-Tooth (cmt), 2015). Eventually, as individuals become older the symptoms will progress and individuals can be affected by all the symptoms. Fortunately, individuals with CMT do not have a shorten lifespan. Individuals with Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease most commonly have abnormal feet. It is rare that an individual with CMT would not need any sort of orthotic (Wahl, 2006). However, for orthotics to work it is important for them to fit. Weakness in the lower leg muscles on the…

Cell Signalling and Disease Project: Pancreatic Cancer Symptoms of pancreatic cancer are rarely visible until the disease reaches an advanced stage, which contributes to the low survival rate (six percent). When symptoms are present, they include body pain (specifically in the torso or middle back), nausea, fatigue, blood clotting, dark urine, weight loss, and yellowing on the skin and eyes. This disease very rarely afflicts people under the age of forty-five, although it is possible. Although…

Group 27 Wing Yan Hoh Dominique Daeshon Stewart Areeb Iqbal Quinn Takashi Korematsu Carol Chen Annotated Bibliography American Cancer Society. (http://www.cancer.org) National Cancer Institute (www.cancer.gov) Schwabb, M. (Ed.) (2012). Acute Myeloid Cancer. In Encyclopedia of Cancer. (pp. 29-32). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program (seer.cancer.gov) Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (https://www.lls.org) Adamia S., Bar-Natan M., et al. NOTCH2 and FLT3…

What is cancer and why is it bad? Cancer is caused by abnormalities (an abnormal condition or state) in the genetic material of cells (Rice). These abnormalities can be caused under the influence of something like chemicals, radiation, pollutants, and abnormalities that is presented in a person’s body from when they were born or the person may have inherited. Cancer is a general term used when typical cells grow and divide wildly, invading neighboring tissues, and consistently stretch to other…

Creutzfeldt-Jakob illness (CJD) is uncommon, degenerative, deadly central nervous issue, which influences short of one individual in a million every year. The most sporadic cases happen between the ages of 55 and 65, yet familial cases can happen in more youthful grown-ups. The course of the sickness can be from a couple of weeks to eight years. Nonetheless, the normal length of survival from onset of the disorder is not exactly a year (WebPath). There are three noteworthy classifications of…

Ovarian cancer is one of the deadliest disease that hits you as a surprise. This cancer has affected me as upcoming nurse and a student by being assigned to a patient who was suffering from ovarian cancer along with depression and anxiety due to the disease. The reason why I chose this article mainly is because ovarian cancer took a piece of my patient’s life away by leading it to spend the remaining of her life dealing with the disease, being away from her family and being alone in the hospital…