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    Hashimoto’s Disease vs. Graves Disease Anna Grochowski Salter College Anatomy and Physiology II September 18‚ 2013 Dr. P. Wong Hashimoto’s disease can also be called chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis or autoimmune thyroiditis. An autoimmune disease happens when the body’s immune system attacks it’s own cells and organs instead of its normal job of protecting the body from infection. Hashimoto’s disease specifically attacks the thyroid gland‚ causing inflammation

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    Huntington’s Disease or Alzheimer’s Disease? As the body ages through time‚ many of the functions will slowly begin to diminish and deteriorate‚ including the nervous system. The nervous system is made up of your brain and the many different neurons that transmit signals to and from the body. One of the most common ways the nervous system deteriorates is when the connections between two neurons diminish‚ or build plaque. The brain uses neurons to send signals to each other‚ in order to get our

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    alzheimers disease

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    2014 Psychology 200 Alzheimer’s Disease Research Paper Kelsey Larrabee Abstract: Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia in elderly individuals. Currently‚ 4.5 million people in the United States approximately have Alzheimer’s disease. (Burns) Alzheimer’s disease presents the victim with a sharp decline in memory‚ language‚ visuospatial perception‚ executive functioning and decision-making. Because this disease is so harsh on people’s personality‚ behavioral

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    Dutch Disease

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    stemmed from the fall in expensive commodity demand. UK has become a net export of oil and Pound got appreciated. The rest of the industry left the market and firms started cutting their cost of human resources. Since then the term of “Dutch Disease” assign to those with heavy reliance on their supply of natural resources that downturn the non-resource aspect of economy. The Export–oriented manufacturing system is divided to two parts; More competitive sector-normally energy sector- grow faster

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    Menusha Arumugam (K1) NAME OF DISEASES Malaria PATHOGENS & VECTORS A parasite called Plasmodium‚ which is transmitted via the bites of infected mosquitoes There are four types of human malaria: - Plasmodium falciparum - Plasmodium vivax - Plasmodium malariae - Plasmodium ovale Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax are the most common. Plasmodium falciparum is the most deadly. METHOD OF TRANSMISSION - Through the bites of infected Anopheles mosquitoes - They breed in shallow collections

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    Minamata Disease

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    Minamata Disease Masazumi Harada‚ M.D.‚ Ph.D. http://www.einap.org/envdis/Minamata.html Minamata Disease was discovered for the first time in the world at Minamata City‚ Kumamoto Prefecture‚ Japan‚ in 1956 (Minamata Disease Research Group; 1968‚ Harada M; 1995)‚ and for the next time at Niigata City‚ Niigata Prefecture‚ Japan‚ in 1965 (Tsubaki T & Irukayama K; 1977). The both cases were attributed to the methyl mercury that was generated in the process for producing acetaldehyde using

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    Defence against Disease and the Immune System In this essay I have distinguished clearly between active/ passive‚ natural/artificial immunity and described some methods of vaccine production. I have critically compared the effectiveness of the smallpox vaccination programme with programmes aimed at control of measles‚ polio‚ influenza‚ malaria and cholera. Introduction (Immune System‚ 2012) “The immune system is made up of a network of cells‚ tissues‚ and organs that work together

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    Behcet's Disease

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    Behcet’s syndrome also known as Behcet’s disease causes inflammation of the blood vessels as well as other parts of the body. This disease was named after the Turkish dermatologist‚ Dr. Hulusi Behcet who first discovered it in 1937. His original description of this disease is a triad of oral ulcers‚ genital ulcers and ocular inflammation. This disease is currently recognized worldwide but the countries with the highest prevalence rate are Turkey‚ Japan‚ Korea‚ China‚ Iran and Saudi Arabia. Turkey

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    Lyme Disease

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    Lyme Disease-Final Draft When you go out to the park‚ or even your backyard‚ you are exposed to ticks. Ticks are small arachnids‚ which are joint-legged invertebrate animals. They live off of the blood of mammals‚ birds‚ and reptiles. Furthermore‚ you may or may not know that Lyme disease is most frequently detected in rodent-feeding vector ticks (“Ticks”). There was a tremendous outbreak of Lyme in 1975- in its hometown of Lyme‚ Connecticut-when it was classified as a new disease (“Lyme disease

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    regimen for the treatment of community acquired pneumonia based on clinical practice guidelines and other peer reviewed literature when given a patient case. CAP Clinical Practice Guidelines Mandell LA‚ Wunderink RG‚ Anzueto A‚ et al. Infectious Diseases Society of America/American Thoracic Society Consensus Guidelines on the Management of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Adults. Clin Infect Dis 2007;44:S27-72. Lower Respiratory Tract Infections Lower Respiratory Tract Tracheobronchial Tree Lung

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