Pregnancy and Zika Virus Disease Zika virus disease‚ or Zika‚ is an illness that can spread to people from mosquitoes that carry the virus. It may also spread from person to person through infected body fluids. Zika first occurred in Africa‚ but it has recently spread to new areas. The virus occurs in tropical climates. The location of Zika continues to change. Most people who become infected with the Zika virus do not have serious illness. However‚ Zika may cause birth defects in an unborn baby
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Alzheimer’s disease Senile dementia - Alzheimer’s type (SDAT); SDAT Dementia is a loss of brain function that occurs with certain diseases. Alzheimer’s disease (AD)‚ is one form of dementia that gradually gets worse over time. It affects memory‚ thinking‚ and behavior. Causes‚ incidence‚ and risk factors You are more likely to get Alzheimer’s disease (AD) if you: * Are older. However‚ developing AD is not a part of normal aging. * Have a close blood relative‚ such as a brother‚ sister
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provide treatment that will cure the disease.” There are two forms of TB infection; it is the Active TB and the Latent TB. A person who has Latent TB infection doesn’t show any signs or symptoms of having this that no one could notice. But unfortunately‚ this Latent TB could worsen and become active any time and can be contagious to other people. Latent TB can be treated with antibiotics to prevent from developing such infection to an active disease. Active TB disease is next to Latent TB infection‚ it
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A Short Summary of Crohn’s Disease (Inflammatory Bowel Disease) Epidemiology • Age of onset: 15-30 and 60-80 • Equal incidence between males and females • Jewish>White Caucasian>African Americans>Hispanic>Asians • Ashkenazi Jews risk is 2x that of an Israeli born Jew. • Urban areas>Rural areas • High socioeconomic > low socioeconomic classes Causes 1. Immune mediated • Pro-inflammatory>Anti-inflammatory • T-helper cells activation through cytokines to promote fibrinogenesis
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Parkinson’s Disease A week ago‚ Ashley had met her boyfriend‚ Jayden’s‚ mom‚ Cathy‚ for the first time. They went to breakfast and then went shopping. While they were shopping‚ Ashley learned something very personal about Jayden’s mom‚ she had Parkinson’s disease. Cathy was pushing the shopping cart and Jayden and Ashley were walking behind her and the next thing Ashley knew‚ Cathy had stopped and told Jayden to push the cart for a while. Cathy just stood there‚ hands shaking‚ and then she clenched
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Parkinson’s Disease goes as far back as the 12th century B.C king Drooling described symptoms of the disease but was not documented until 1817 by James Parkinson. The term parkinsonism[->0] is used for a motor syndrome[->1] whose main symptoms are tremor at rest‚ stiffness‚ slowing of movement and postural instability. Parkinson’s disease causes neuropsychiatric disturbances‚ which include mainly cognition‚ mood and behavior problems‚ and can be as disabling as motor symptoms. Most people with Parkinson’s
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Alzheimer ’s disease Wendy M Tolliver PSY/340 November 28‚ 2011 Melynda Marchi Alzheimer Disease Alzheimer ’s disease received its name from Dr. Alois Alzheimer (a German physician). Dr. Alzheimer detected bizarre changes in the brain tissue of a woman who had died (in 1906) of a bizarre mental illness. He notices numerous abnormal clumps (amyloid plaques) and twisted bundles of fibers (neurofibrillary tangles). Scientist of today has discovered the plaques and tangles in the brain are recognized
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"Shaking Palsy" has been around for a very long time. Today‚ we call it Parkinsons disease. Parkinsons was mentioned in an ancient Indian medical system known as Ayurveda‚ under the name Kampavata. The name later changed to Shaking Palsy by a well known physician- Galen. He spread the idea of this common disease through Western medical literature in 175 AD. After hundreds of years‚ a London doctor‚ by the name of James Parkinson‚ wrote a very detailed essay‚ which became the first modern attempt to
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cured: so what are the current available treatments to help relieve the disorder’s symptoms? The Problem Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive‚ degenerative neurological disorder which is caused by nerve cell death in the midbrain called the substantia nigra which is responsible for producing neurotransmitters dopamine. The disease is named after the English doctor James Parkinson‚ who published the first detailed description in An Essay on the Shaking Palsy in 1817 after his observation of 6 cases
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Analyzing a Popular Magazine and a Scholarly Journal for the Study of Birth Month and Lifetime Disease Risk When we ask people for their birthdays‚ some reasons may be because we are wondering how old they are‚ when we should buy them gifts‚ or we have a plain curiosity about what their zodiac signs are. Most of us do not intend on figuring out how their birth months might predict the kinds of diseases that they could develop over their lifetimes. However‚ in an online article on Discover Magazine
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