Alzheimers Disease Anne Harrison Description ● Alzheimer ’s disease is a progressive‚ degenerative disorder that affects the brain ’s nerve cells‚ or neurons‚ ending up in loss of memory‚ thinking and language skills‚ and behavioral changes. Cause ● Plaques: clumps of a protein that damage and destroy brain cells. ● Tangles: Strands that ruin cell transport made of proteins. Most Affected ● ● ● Age: 65-80 is the usual age Sex: More women are affected than men (Alzheimer.org) Race and profession
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Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive disease that destroys memory and other important mental functions. It’s the most common cause of dementia- a group of brain disorders that results in the loss of intellectual and social skills. It’s an irreversible‚ progressive disorder in which brain cells (neurons) deteriorate‚ resulting in the loss of cognitive functions‚ memory‚ judgment and reasoning‚ movement coordination and pattern recognition. Advanced stages of the disease‚ all memory and mental functioning
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As the vast spread of disease worldwide has posed a great seriousness to our lives as well as to our children’s life in today’s age of information and technology. As we know children are more prone to disease. This is in light of the fact that the inbuilt immune system of children is low. Therefore‚ they easily get infected. It is clear that with Science of Medicine and Pharmacy rapidly developed‚ parents do not concern as much as before about common childhood disease for their children. They can
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Infectious Disease Natalie Rabess-Denis HCA 240 August 18‚ 2013 Professor Morse Infectious Disease We are faced and come in contact with various types of diseases‚ those that you can seek treatment for and those that are incurable. Research has been conducted for many years and is still being tested and studied in an attempt to find a cure for these diseases. Cancer‚ Hepatitis B‚ Tuberculosis‚ Influenza‚ and Chicken Pox are all forms of infectious disease‚ but one major one that
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Correlation Between Vitamin D Deficiency and Parkinson’s Disease Trisakti University of Medicine I Made Setiadji 030.09.114 Jakarta‚ June 14th 2012 Abstract A majority of Parkinson’s disease patients had insufficient levels of vitamin D. Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common form of neurodegeneration in the elderly population. In PD‚ one’s levels of dopamine are lowered because the nerve cells which make the chemical have either died or lost their usual functioning. Clinically
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Addison’s disease From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search | It has been suggested that Autoimmune adrenalitis be merged into this article or section. (Discuss) Proposed since March 2009. | Addison’s disease | Classification and external resources | ICD-10 | E27.1-E27.2 | ICD-9 | 255.4 | DiseasesDB | 222 | MedlinePlus | 000378 | eMedicine | med/42 | MeSH | D000224 | Addison’s disease (also chronic adrenal insufficiency‚ hypocortisolism‚ and hypocorticism)
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Kawasaki disease‚ also known as Kawasaki syndrome is an inflammatory disease that is potentially fatal affecting the circulatory system‚ heart‚ skin‚ mucous membranes and the immune system generally in infants and children younger than five years of age. Aneurysms‚ due to the inflamed coronary arteries lead to stenosis or coronary artery thrombosis‚aneurysm rupture‚ myocardial infarction and sudden death. The cause of this condition is unknown‚ but there has been an hypothesis linking this condition
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Alzheimer ’s disease Alzheimer’s is a type of dementia that causes problems with memory thinking and behavior. Symptoms usually develop slowly and get worse over time‚ becoming severe enough to interfere with daily life activities. Up to today there is no cure for Alzheimer how ever there is treatment for symptoms‚ but the research continues in search to one day find the cure to this deadly disease. Unfortunately it runs in my family my dad’s dad past away of Alzheimer at the
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own life was he had been recently diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. However‚ it was learned that it
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Diseases of the Skin and Treatments Kari Fournier MO150-7 September 18‚ 2011 Instructor Eileen Domerchie Diseases of the Skin and Treatments In this paper‚ I am going to be writing about 3 different types of diseases of the skin and their treatments. Also I will be including the signs and symptoms‚ causes of the diseases‚ and the medication side effects. The first topic will be about Measles‚ which is an example of a viral skin infection. Next topic will be about Malignant Melanoma
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