Parkinson Disease Parkinson disease is a long-term (chronic) condition that gets worse over time (progressive). Parkinson disease limits your ability to control your movements and move your body normally. This condition is a type of movement disorder. Parkinson disease affects each person differently. The condition can range from mild to severe. Parkinson’s disease tends to progress slowly over several years. CAUSES Parkinson disease results from a loss of brain cells (neurons) in a specific
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Disease Trends and the Delivery of Healthcare Services Kathryn Tolliver-Jackson HCA/240 August 9‚ 2013 Jerrica Ampadu Demographics and disease trends are likely to influence health care delivery services in the future for many reasons. For example‚ it could be because of age‚ obesity‚ or the future. During this essay I will be discussing how age composition of the U.S population and how it will change within the next twenty years‚ I will identify factors that support this trend‚ how obesity
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disorder which cannot yet be 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
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example‚ genetic disorders‚ hepatitis viruses‚ alcohol abuse‚ obesity‚ and diabetes.2 Damage to the liver may result in scarring or cirrhosis over time‚ which could lead to liver failure and an increase risk of mortality.2 Signs and symptoms of liver disease may include jaundice (yellowing of skin and eyes)‚ abdominal pain and swelling‚
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Pulmonary disease or lung disease is any disease or disorder that occurs in the lungs or that causes the lungs or that causes the lungs not to work correctly. Some diseases or disorders that affect the lungs are Pneumothrax‚ Pneumonia‚ Hemothorax‚ and Infectious Mononucleosis: Epstein - Barr virus Infection. There are many signs‚ symptoms‚ treatments and medications for Pulmonary diseases. Symptoms and signs for Pneumothorax varies from patient to patient but usually includes Sudden and sharp
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Rhesus disease is an infant wellbeing condition that is brought on by an incompatibility between the mother’s blood classification and the baby. Here’s the significance: Most individuals have Rh-positive blood‚ implying that they create an Rh protein on the surface of their red platelets. Also called erythroblastosis fatalism during pregnancy. In the newborn‚ the resulting condition is called hemolytic disease of the newborn (HDN). Be that as it may‚ around 15 percent of Caucasian ladies and around
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Pneumonia is a common disease‚ which occurs in all age groups. However‚ pneumonia is the leading cause of death in elderly‚ people who are chronically and terminally ill‚ and children under five years old worldwide. It can result from a variety of causes‚ including infection with bacteria‚ viruses‚ fungi‚ or parasites‚ and chemical or physical injury to the lungs. Pneumonia is an irregular inflammatory condition of the lung. It is often described as inflammation and abnormal fluid filling of the
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Crohn’s disease is one of the fastest growing intestinal disease in the United States. You may ask‚ “who can get Crohn’s disease?”. Anyone can get Crohn’s disease but it is more common for a woman rather than a man to get it. It has affected more than five hundred thousand people in the United States alone‚ that is about one for every seven people in the United States. Crohn’s has common symptoms of a cold such as abdominal pains‚ fever‚ and diarrhea‚ it also has many more symptoms. Crohn’s can affect
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Can you imagine having a disease that can change everything in your body‚ the way you feel‚ or where it can change your eating habits and can cause severe pains? Well if you have Celiac disease you will no longer be able to eat anything like pizza. Celiac disease is an autoimmune disorder that can occur in genetically predisposed people where the ingestion of gluten leads to damage in the small intestine. It is estimated to affect 1 in 100 people worldwide. Two and one-half million Americans are
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name/history of the disease The name celiac comes from "coeliac" which is derived from the Greek Koilia‚ which means belly. The "coeliac flux" is an old expression meaning the same as diarrhea. The disease celiac is not just diarrhea though it just means that the disease pertains to the abdomen. The celiac disease comes from early farmers and hunters. But because the wheat and grain of the crops and fields did not have high levels of gluten they were not exposed to the disease very often. Those
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