Running head: FATTY LIVER DISEASE Fatty Liver Disease Evetta Brown June 08‚ 2011 MA111 Instructor Leila L. Hamka The liver has over 200 functions that it plays. There are over 100 types of liver diseases. Many of these diseases can be life threating if they are not treated correctly. This paper will focus on the fatty liver disease. It will describe the liver‚ discuss the disease known as fatty liver disease‚ alcoholic and non alcoholic‚ give
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Mad Cow Disease In Kent‚ England‚ in 1985‚ an eight year old cow on the Plurenden Manor farm came down with an unusual sickness. The veterinarian was called to treat her. This one cow launched a whole new way of dealing with diseased meat to protect the public. Mad Cow Disease has affected the health of thousands of people worldwide and has changed the food is tracked. People should be aware of the definition of Mad Cow Disease‚ the symptoms of Mad Cow Disease‚ and the treatment available for Mad
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A solution to Heart Disease By: John Palsson Heart diseases have emerged as a big problem today and the biggest contributor to this increment has been the increase in rate of obesity. Heart diseases are fatal and they can also impair the other parts of the body. Hence knowing about the problems and solutions related to heart diseases are vital as they can also help you to combat them and retain good health throughout your life. Information on these heart diseases is vital because knowing more about
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Addiction a Symptom Or a Primary Disease? The problem with the question of whether addiction is a disease or not is that it requires us to try to fit a loosely defined term into a vaguely defined category. Critics of the addictive disease model‚ also called the medical model‚ say that labeling drug addiction as a disease detracts addicts from assuming responsibility and taking control of their lives. Yet the very nature of addiction is similar to many other diseases that are widely recognized as legitimate
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References • http://www.thefreedictionary.com/hereditary+disease • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathogen • http://www.preservearticles.com/201101032353/deficiency-diseases.html • http://www.who.int/chp/working_paper_growth%20model29may.pdf • http://www.drugs.com/condition/pneumonia.html • http://www.medicinenet.com/diabetes_treatment/article.htm • http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/asthma/treatment.html • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haemophilia
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Thyroid Disease Have you ever heard of Thyroid Disease? Thyroid Disease is common disorder that affect mostly females‚ the symptoms and treatment have an impact on everyday life. What is Thyroid Disease? A person who has Thyroid disease has many challenges to defeat. Thyroid disease affects your thyroid gland. The thyroid gland helps produce hormones that controls your metabolism and growth. In addition your thyroid needs iodine‚ which is a chemical element that absorbs food and
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As we all know‚ diseases wiped out most of the populations of Native Americans. Different diseases that were brought in by the Europeans. Germs were the worst weapons that the natives experienced. “The Arrow of Disease” by Jared Diamond explains how the Europeans had an advantage over the Indians with diseases brought upon them. Epidemic diseases spread through a nation and almost erased an entire existence of a group of people but it didn’t affect the Old World. The Old World was left untouched
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis known by an another name as Lou Gehrig’s disease affects atleast 2‚000 individuals a year in England from onset between 50 years and 70 years. Amyotrophic comes from the Greek language. Damage Signs of lower motor neuron and upper motor neuron is not explained by any other disease process‚ and are the reasons behind ALS. It attacks nerve cells called neurons in the CNS. They transmit messages from central nervous system to the voluntary muscles - the ones we can control
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Addison’s Disease The disease I’ve been reading and researching about is called Addison’s Disease. Addison’s Disease is an uncommon condition in which the adrenal glands‚ above the kidneys‚ don’t make enough of a hormone called cortisol‚ which helps regulate the body’s use of a protein‚ carbohydrates and fat‚ helps maintain blood pressure and cardiovascular function and controls inflamation. Causes to how a person will acquire and the usual type of people to get Addison’s Disease
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• Addison’s disease Addison’s disease is a rare and chronic disease discovered by Dr Thomas Addison in 1849 with the first known case of being from Tuberculosis later finding there are other causes. Addison’s disease is described as being a total deficiency of the hormones made in the adrenal cortex ( cortisol and alderstone ) due to its destruction affecting fewer than 200‚000 people a year and can be life threating if untreated. The hormone Cortisol is a hormone that is produced
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