Current Topics in Health 26 November 2012 Drug Addiction a Disease? Drug addiction‚ a new major phenomenon in our society today. The dependence‚ compulsive craving of a drug which becomes priority over all other issues in one’s life. We recognize that this issue of drugs and addiction is a growing problem now affecting most in this world. The physical characteristics of addiction would trembling‚ sweating‚ loss of appetite‚ and seizures. Psychological characteristics are harder
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Degerative Disc Disease Degenerative Disc Disease Degenerative Disc Disease is something that is very common. As people get older they experience some symptoms but‚ certain cases are worse than others. Allen Naylor is someone that suffers from this disease personally. He has had seven back surgeries in a matter of ten years of finding out he had the disease. He did receive passive treatment which has the benefits of taking away extreme pain by pain medication that is monitored by a doctor
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Huntington’s disease is the degeneration‚ or breakdown‚ of neurons within the structures of the brain. The structures affected are responsible for thought‚ perception‚ emotions‚ and memory. The basal ganglia‚ which controls movement and coordination‚ is also affected by the disease. Huntington’s disease is usually developed between the ages of 30 and 50‚ but can still develop earlier or later depending on the person. Juvenile Huntington’s disease is when it is developed in people under 20 years
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Should obesity be categorized as a disease? Obesity is not actually a lifestyle‚ it is a disease because there are medical reasons that make obesity actually a disease. The American Medical Association declared obesity as being a disease. There are many different definitions of disease that make is very hard and confusing to define just how obesity is a disease. According to merriam-webster a disease is “a condition of the living animal or plant body or of one of its parts that impairs normal functioning
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Common Childhood Diseases 1.1 Introduction Children are more prone to diseases. They catch disease easily and recover fast too. You must learn to protect your children from diseases and also from many other problems which can be prevented‚ if you care a little. In this lesson‚ you will learn about some diseases which are more likely to affect a child in the first few years of life. 1.2 Objectives explain the importance of immunisation for children; give the immunisation schedule for
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Infectious Disease: HIV/AIDS Jessica Thammavongsa HCA 240 August 9th‚ 2014 Shirlene Small Infectious Disease: HIV/AIDS I am writing this paper to explain how HIV/AIDS as an infectious disease responds to the inflammatory‚ describe what the disease is‚ how it is transmitted‚ and the environmental factors that can make a person vulnerable to accruing the disease. In addition‚ this paper will discuss standard and alternative treatments that are available to those who have HIV/AIDS‚ identify
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foodborne disease outbreak occurs when two or more people get the same illness from the same contaminated food or drink. The number of people sick from the outbreak -While many of them were found to have sickened a handful of individuals‚ a few stood out as especially wide in scope. Food Safety News has compiled a list of the 10 most harmful U.S. outbreaks of 2015‚ in terms of both the number of people who died and the number sickened. Source if it was discovered -The Centers for Disease Control and
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Cat Scratch Disease Sarah Hall Section 321 Professor Augustin June 20‚ 2011 Cat scratch disease is a bacterial infection that causes the swelling of lymph nodes‚ due to a scratch‚ lick‚ or bite of a cat. Forty percent of cats carry the bacteria in their saliva at some point in time in their lives. Cats that carry the disease usually do not show any signs of illness. Most people contract the disease after being scratched or bitten. More than 90% of people who contract it had contact with cats
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As we all know‚ there are hundreds of medically diagnosed diseases. Ranging from skeletal‚ muscular‚ pulmonary‚ neurological‚ integumentary‚ autoimmune‚ blood borne‚ etc. Degenerative Joint Disease (DJD) is one of the many diseases pertaining to the skeletal system. You may have also heard of osteoarthritis‚ wear and tear arthritis‚ or degenerative arthritis. This is the most common type of arthritis. Degenerative joint disease is unique and dangerous. DJD can be caused by injury to a joint‚ or can
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Is alcoholism a disease? Until the 1900s‚ most doctors and scientists did not believe that alcoholism was a disease. In 1956‚ the American Medical Association (AMA) declared alcoholism an illness. It took until the 1991 for the AMA to officially classify alcoholism as a disease. Is Alcoholism a Disease? Many individuals who suffer from alcohol abuse wonder‚ “Is alcoholism a disease?” The definition of a disease describes alcoholism fairly well. A disease is a type condition that harms the normal
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