" (Fleming et al., 1994) B. Genetic Factors While environmental factors are shown to increase the risk of developing Parkinson's disease there are also specific mutations linked to the development of PD in certain populations. For example it is rep Continue Reading...
Alcoholic Liver Disease CAUSES AND IMPACT Causes, Incidence, Risk Factors, Impact Alcohol use has been linked with liver disease mortality and increased social and economic costs (NCBI, 2014; Bruha et al., 2009). Most recent statistics say that di Continue Reading...
Prions: Proteinaceous Infectious Particles" Recent cases of Mad Cow Disease have focused the public attention on prion diseases and the small proteins that are believed to cause them. The scientific community has been slow to recognize this mechani Continue Reading...
Infectious Disease and Nursing Interventions: In the past few years, the world has gained more awareness regarding health conditions, especially in light of the numerous changes in the environment that cause changes in the microbial population. Whil Continue Reading...
Mitochondrial Diseases A gene is basically a one dimension sequence of nucleotides that signals for the production of a protein. (Reynaud, 2010) The protein itself is merely a sequence of amino acids arranged in a specific manner. The sequence of th Continue Reading...
Autoimmunity The immune system of the body must differentiate itself from harmful to repel invaders and to protect the integrity of the host without inducing autoimmunity. Any deficit in this function can cause the body to be vulnerable to infection Continue Reading...
Physiological Effects of Hodgkin's Disease In this paper I shall give an overview of Hodgkin's disease while focusing on its physiological effects. Specifically, the paper consists of an overview of the disease, describes how the disease affects the Continue Reading...
Epidemiology and Breaking Communicable Diseases at a Link Within the Communicable Disease Chain The objective of this study is to answer as to how demographic factors affect health status, health-related behavior, or the use of health care services. Continue Reading...
Fortunately my father's symptoms early on have been quite mild thus far. With the exception of some slight tremors in the hands now, my father exhibits relatively few of the debilitating or crippling symptoms associated with Parkinson's. Though this Continue Reading...
Diabetic Vascular Disease state caused by the deficiency of a chemical in the body called insulin which is a hormone is called Diabetes. There are two forms of diabetes. In the type-one diabetes no insulin is formed and people require insulin injecti Continue Reading...
Which type of sense has been damaged by the smoking? That would be a special sense. Special senses are those that have specialized organs devoted to them. This would include vision, hearing, balance, taste and smell. These senses have the eyes, ear Continue Reading...
Pressure on the superior vena cava may produce SVC syndrome, a swelling of the head and arms. SVC syndrome involving the brain can be fatal and must be treated immediately. But enlarged lymphatic tissue in the chest cavity generally tends to displac Continue Reading...
The virus also can spread when a person touches a surface or object contaminated with infectious droplets and then touches his or her mouth, nose, or eye(s). In addition, it is possible that SARS-CoV might be spread more broadly through the air (air Continue Reading...
, 1998). It is hard to know where the boundary stops between psychological and physical illness, since the two are, often intimately combined with one affecting the other. QOL, as De Vries and Drent (2008) point out is often confounded with state of Continue Reading...
These defects or conditions are categorized according to the problems, which develop. One problem is when too much blood passes through the lungs. Another is when too little passes through the lungs. A third is when too little blood circulates in th Continue Reading...
Transmission of Periodontal Disease Through Saliva Transmission of Periodontal Disease Periodontal disease is associated with the pathogens Actinobacillus. actinomycetemcomitans and Porphyromonas gingivalis. These pathogens are found in both juveni Continue Reading...
Blood Diseases and Disorders There are dozens of blood diseases and disorders with the blood disorders affecting any of the three major components of the blood. These three components of the blood include red blood cells (carry oxygen to the body's Continue Reading...
Embryonic Stem Cells to Cure Disease Embryonic Stem Cell Derivation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells Generation of Cardiomyocytes from Human Embryonic Stem Cells Purified Population of Cardiomyocytes Use of Transgenes in Differentiated Cardiomyocy Continue Reading...
The presence of cardiac enzymes in the blood often indicates myocardial necrosis. Medical experts generally view MI as one among acute coronary syndromes. Unstable angina and non-ST-elevation MI are among the syndromes. Statistics said that approxim Continue Reading...
Infectious Conditions in a Pediatric Patient What will be your differential diagnoses for this patient? Chickenpox Measles Rubella Scarlet fever Erythema infectiosum (5th disease) -- human parvovirus Exanthema subitum or Roseola infantum Non- Continue Reading...
In the long-term treatment of asthma, the administration of inhaled corticosteroids is often useful in inhibiting the attacks from getting worse to the level of requiring emergency treatments. Among the various permanent treatment methods available f Continue Reading...
PARKINSON'S DISEASE UNDERSTANDING THE PARKINSON'S DISEASE Understanding Parkinson's disease Description Parkinson disease is a progressive neurological problem that affects people of all ages and races. It is a very common condition. It is estim Continue Reading...
One in six patients in intensive care units are colonized or infected with MRSA, which signifies not only the prevalence of this health risk, but the impact on the nurses' workload. Antibiotic resistant MRSA increases mortality and postoperative st Continue Reading...
HIV/AIDS and EmbalmingHuman Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), the causative agent of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), is a retrovirus that targets the immune system. It specifically attacks CD4+ T cells, which are important for orchestrating a Continue Reading...
Article Summary: The Influence of the Human Microbiome and Probiotics on Cardiovascular Health Introduction One of the world’s leading causes of death is cardiovascular disease (CVD). Some of the risk factors that have been associated with CVD Continue Reading...
Speech Understanding Ototoxicity Characteristics The disease stems from toxic reactions to structures of the ear, including the cochlea, vestibule, semicircular canals and otoliths. Drug-induced damage to these structures of the auditory and balan Continue Reading...
Cholera The following is a response to a major disaster in the Asian coastal country of Bangladesh. A major and destructive typhoon has recently hit the country and there are significant problems. The result of this typhoon has seem massive death, d Continue Reading...
The response by the United States to biorisk management at the national level provides a useful example of what can be accomplished with the right resources and vision. For instance, in December 2009, the U.S. government published its "National Str Continue Reading...
Tracking Dengue Fever in China Dengue Fever Dengue is a viral disease transmitted from host to host by mosquitoes (Shepherd, 2012, Background). Many tropical and subtropical regions of the world are currently combating this disease, including 112 c Continue Reading...
Tuberculosis Causative agent Tuberculosis is an infectious disease of animals and humans. The most common causative agent of the disease is a bacterium a mycobacteria known as Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This bacterium was first discovered by Rober Continue Reading...
Environmental Hazards What are toxicants and how do they affect living organisms? According to Dr. Celine Godard, toxicants and toxins both reference substances that are toxic; however, toxins are made in nature (like in poisonous mushrooms or in t Continue Reading...
Healthy People 2020 Review of Three Articles from Healthy People 2020 Global Health The goal of improved global health is to strengthen U.S. national security through global disease detection, response, prevention, and control strategies. Threats Continue Reading...
Haiti and Cholera In the modern world, despite the numerous technological improvements, natural disasters continue to occur, and with them, often epidemic level disease vectors. In January 2010, an earthquake hit the Island of Haiti in the Carribean Continue Reading...
Consideration should be given to the development of a common form to be used by both law enforcement and epidemiology personnel. This form should allow the sharing of necessary information while protecting the confidentiality of victims (Department Continue Reading...
technology and science have progressed so rapidly, a place where cell phones have become video cameras, where scientist can actually clone human life, you would assume medical advancements would progress in the same stride. This has not been the cas Continue Reading...
Campylobacter jejuni is a helical shaped, non-spore forming, curved, Gram-negative bacteria which is most often found in animal feces. This bacteria comes from the intestinal tracks of animals where is exists as a mixed surface-associated community, Continue Reading...
Cholera Vectors Cholera is an acute diarrheal infection caused by a bacterium called Vibrio cholerae that infects the intestines of human and causes massive dehydration. Most estimates believe that there are 3-5 million cases of cholera globally eac Continue Reading...
2 to $44.4 million (NIAID, 2011). The President's proposed 2013 budget also shifts funding around to effectively increase contributions to the Global Fund to Fight AIDs, Tuberculosis and Malaria by 60%, which should indirectly help dengue vector con Continue Reading...
