Viral diseases

Haemochromatosis is a genetic disease that causes its victims to store too much iron in their body. This is a very serious problem in today’s society, yet I do not feel that there is enough recognition for it. It’s not recognized as widely as cancer, but if left untreated, it can grow to be just as serious. I believe it should be recognized as widely at cancer, because it is just as dangerous. This disease is important because it can and will do major damage to the body if left untreated.…

people than it is to another. It affects everyone the same. From America, to Africa, to Spain, the Ebola virus causes the same devastation and pain to everyone (Fox 2014). There is no mutation a group of people possess that makes them immune to the disease. That being said, even though people are affected the same by the virus, it is more prone to certain places in the world.Countries with poor health care systems are more likely to…

Infectious Diseases Infectious diseases are spread through four methods of transmission they are 1. Respiratory tract transmission 2. Fecal-Oral transmission 3. Direct contact transmission 4. Blood contact transmission Respiratory tract Infectious diseases are transmitted via the respiratory tract and they can range from a mild cold to many life threatening diseases. This is the most common method of transmission of infectious diseases in an early childhood environment. Germs pass through the…

One finding from the Human Genome Project includes the identification of “approximately 200 disease-related genes” (Ginsberg, Nackerud & Larrison, 2004, p. 118). This finding impacts our understanding of human behavior as it gives a better biological understanding of these diseases and it helps social workers to be better advocates for those who have these diseases. Our need to understand the diseases that affect our clients is one of the most important components of social work. Using social…

sociology at Brandeis University and was a well accomplished and respected educator who enjoyed dancing. During summer in 1994 Morrie Schwartz was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease; he died 4 years later. After learning of his disease, Morrie decided to make the act of death and dying into a scholastic opportunity: The living would learn from his experience with death. "When you learn how to die," Morrie said, "you learn how to live."…

Jon Underwood is the founder of Death Café, a large movem ent where people gather to drink tea, eat cake and discuss death. Their aim is to increase awareness of death to help people make the most of their (finite) lives. Jon spoke to Global Inno vation Magazine about his current crowdfunding campaign and what made him start in the fi rst place. Tell us about yourself, where did you grow up? I grew up in Chester, which is near Liverpool in the North West of Eng land. My dad was an…

Why was Geography abandoned in American higher education after WWII? Many people developed a sensitivity towards the subject. Huntington spoke of how in his day, the subject was given to a targeted audience. Geography was distributed among peoples of “merit and wisdom,” being of the same party as Huntington. They found geography to contain racial slurs. This caused the subject to lose credibility, and people turned aggressive towards different group comparisons. After the negative stigma was…

Many diseases are apt to spreading and being altered. Damian Hoy wrote in his article that due to the rising temperature many diseases, like malaria and heatstroke, will have an increased amount of incidences happening (Hoy). The amount of diseases and incidents increasing will cause more health implications than anyone will want to deal with. However climate change not only…

possibilities ranging from hair color to intellect. There are several reasons that genetic modification is wrong, however; for example, parents should love their children no matter what. The only reasons genetic modification should be accepted is to rid of diseases and disorders in a child’s genes. Genetic modification may seem like a swell process for parents that want a perfect child, but it is wrong and unfair to the child unless it is to possibly save his or her life. Some people may argue…

a more popular topic every year, but doctors and gene specialist should spend more time looking for cures to diseases; rather than pleasing the hunger of ungrateful and unsatisfied parents. Playing God is a dangerous game that inevitably ends with a monster. If society eventually allows genetic…