Pelvic inflammatory disease

or rubella? Chances are, in all likelihood, you haven’t. Polio was once a global terror, even in the United States. In the timeframe from the 1940’s to the 1950’s, the viral disease infected, on average, over 35,000 people each year in the United States. Polio caused widespread panic and was one of the most feared diseases that our country has ever known. People were afraid to travel, people were quarantined, and people were too scared to even go outside. So, you might be asking yourself, what…

of infection? Certainly, this is a world everyone would wish for. Apparently, Archbishop Jim Humble promises to make this dream a reality with what he refers to as “miracle mineral solution" or MMS. Jim claims that this solution can cure dozens of diseases such as cancer, aids, malaria, autism, and hepatitis among others. Not so fast though. The FDA and other renowned medical bodies has warned people against taking the solution since it has been shown to be toxic and has devastating effects on…

Huntington’s Disease Huntington’s disease is a serious, dominant genetic disorder in which the nerve cells in a person’s brain degenerate over time. A wide range of symptoms can arise for individuals with this disease. Cognitive, physical, and psychiatric disorders appear over the course of the life of someone with Huntington’s. There is no cure for this disease, but medication can help manage the symptoms. In 1872, George Huntington wrote a paper titled On Chorea describing a disorder which…

Tropical areas of the world are heavily ravaged by the burdens of parasitic diseases. While malaria attracts much of the attention, there are still unreasonable burdens placed on communities by other filarial infections such as Onchocerciasis. Recently, there have been effective strategies used to eradicate Dracunculus medinensis from almost all endemic areas. Both Onchocerca and Dracunculus are nematodes they are radially symmetrical, have three tissue layers, and have a hydrostatic skeleton.…

provided the proper education for high school students then teen pregnancies, HIV/AIDS, and abortions would decrease. High school students should become educated in school about pertinent topics such as birth control, sex education, sexually transmitted diseases, and planned parenthood. Sexual education should be part of the universal high school curriculum because it allows the increased possibility for better health and more stable futures for the students. Sexual education in high school…

Chlamydia is common sexually transmitted disease. It is a genus of pathogenic bacteria. This bacteria is eukaryotic and gram negative. It depends on the host for ATP and energy metabolism, therefore an obligate intracellular organism. Chlamydia has three species, namely, C.pneumoniae, that causes a type of pneumonia, C.psittaci, that causes psittacosis and C.trachomatis that causes various diseases such as trachoma, inclusion conjunctivitis and nongonococcal urethritis. Chlamydial infections are…

expect. The Second World War has ended and the United States will be receiving the spoils of war from the defeated countries. This means that even with falling income tax rates, this bill can still be funded. The 1930 's were wrought with terrible diseases and ailments that were difficult to treat and cost you more money than you had. With this new bill, I hope to reduce those medical costs and improve there effectiveness through government owned medical research facilities to combat the…

SARS as a disease that was spreading fast through the contact of the mucous membrane, the Public health of Ontario must had to face many challenges, because not had preparation and a plan to respond to the outbreak immediately, by the overcrowding of the health facility, inadequate controls to prevent transmission of the disease, the lack of laboratories to carry out an effective investigation about the disease and its causes to allowing avoid major risks. (Arnold, 2009) An emergency department…

of health services through health systems and infrastructure, control of communicable diseases and control of non-communicable diseases. Health systems and infrastructure: standard 1, the priority is for providing the primary health services for all affected population in order to reduce mortality and morbidity. Make sure that public health interventions, such as safe water, shelter and food, infectious disease control, sanitation, are…

states small events in one area will eventually have a larger effect in another location. For example, when deforestation began in Guinea the growing urban population and the fruit bat that harvest a virus led to the spread of Ebola. Many infectious diseases, like Ebola, are zoonotic origin. From the Ebola epidemic, one can conclude: animal health issues and environmental changes do impact human health. World leaders gathered at the United Nations in New York in 2000 to create the Millennium…