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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Devesh Mehra 3/16/17 Biology Huntington’s Disease Research Paper Huntington’s Disease‚ previously known as Huntington’s chorea‚ is a long term brain disorder that eventually leads to uncontrolled movement‚ problems with emotions‚ loss of cognitive abilities such as memorization‚ increased involuntary movements‚ behavioral symptoms‚ and degeneration of nerve cells in the brain(1). This disease has been recognized as a disorder for hundreds of years‚ but however‚ only recently a cause was instituted
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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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the moment is balsalazide and Sulfasalazine. Both drugs are classed under a treatment called 5-ASA. For this type of treatment these are the two main drugs used by all doctors. [6] Ulcerative colitis is grouped under a name of a disease called Inflammatory Bowel disease. Inflammation has a literal meaning of “being set on fire”. Inflammation normally occurs when a tissue has been damaged or destroyed; it is like the body’s response to tell you something is wrong [2]. In other words Ulcerative colitis
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Cardiovascular Disease The term "heart disease" is often used interchangeably with the term "cardiovascular disease." Cardiovascular disease generally refers to conditions that involve narrowed or blocked blood vessels that can lead to a heart attack‚ chest pain (angina) or stroke. Other heart conditions‚ such as those that affect your heart ’s muscle‚ valves or rhythm‚ also are considered forms of heart disease. Many forms of heart disease can be prevented or treated with healthy lifestyle
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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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