The word jaundice is derived from a French word called as jaune‚ which means yellow. It is a very common condition which is seen in newborn babies which can be treated by exposing them to sunlight. It is also known as yellow skin or eyes disease. It turns your skin‚ mucous membranes‚ sclera (the white of your eyes) into a single yellow color. This yellow pigment which is seen on your skin is due to bilirubin which is a byproduct of old red blood cells. If you are affected by jaundice consider it
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Lifestyle Disease A lifestyle disease is one where a person’s choice in how they live their life – what they eat‚ how they socialize‚ where they work‚ how they care of themselves – either causes or increases their chances of contracting. This makes them different from other diseases which are caused by things such as genetics (inherited from family background) or chance (like catching a cold from a friend). Modern life increases the number of people with lifestyle diseases. An industrialized
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moral problem and not a disease. To better understand the reasons why an additicition is in fact a disease; I will identify several types of addictions‚ and the problems associated with them. I will examine reasons why certain people are more susceptible for developing an addiction. Also‚ I will determine why many addicts deny their problems and many recovery methods addicts use to fight their illness. Researching these issues‚ will help aid my claim that addiction is a disease. Addictions
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Today we present our paper on a phenomenon called “Dutch Disease‚” that tries to explain changes in growth of an economy in the presence of a favorable shock. While it most often refers to natural resource discovery‚ it can also be extended to include "any development that results in a large inflow of foreign currency‚ including a sharp surge in natural resource prices‚ foreign assistance‚ and foreign direct investment."[1] The term was coined in 1977 by The Economist to describe the decline of
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containing products that people without coleiac disease‚ take for granted. Although deemed as normal for most‚ these simple foods are not as nutritious or beneficial to people who have Coeliac disease. Coeliac disease pronounced (see-liac) is intolerance to wheat products‚ whereby gluten fights against the immune system causing damage to the lining of the intestines. According to (Coeliac UK 2001)‚ 125‚000 in the UK are faced with this condition. The disease is fatal in most cases and can have an
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Genetic Engineering and Morality As advancements in technology and science continue to rapidly grow‚ we as a society face issues with the morality of some of these advancements. One of the biggest issues at hand today is that of genetic engineering. The question we must answer is whether or not it should be morally permissible for parents to create their children using genetic engineering so that they may provide them with particularly desirable traits? Although this may seem like a fabulous idea
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The Meniere’s disease (MD) is a problematical inner ear multifactorial illness. The MD usually causes the episodic vertigo syndrome. Meniere’s disease is also connected to the shifting hearing loss (Gates 2006). Scholars have been conducting research on Meniere’s disease for decades‚ nevertheless; MD etiology and pathophysiology remain to be disputable. Many factors have led to these disputable issues concerning Meniere’s disease (Harcourt et al. 2014). These factors include; the paucity of specific
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Metabolic Disease Luise Crinklaw Carrington College What is metabolic disease? Metabolic Disease or syndrome can strike anytime in a person’s lifetime from the very young to the very old and it has even been reported to affect animals. The disease itself takes on many forms and doesn’t affect each person the same way. Treatments vary according to each individual’s symptoms. Now let’s go into what exactly are metabolic disorders
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this infectious disease? For example‚ the name of the bacteria‚ virus‚ or parasite. Hepatitis A is a contagious liver disease that comes from the Hepatitis A virus (HAV). There isn’t a treatment for the disease once you get it. How is this infectious agent transmitted through food or water? Hepatitis A is contracted from eating food and drinking water contaminated with human feces. Eating raw and undercooked fish that was in contaminated waters contribute to the disease. Sometimes eating
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Kandice Almodovar A&P 2 Hodgkin’s Disease In our bodies we have an immune system that fights infections and other diseases. The lymphatic system is also a part of the immune system. Hodgkin’s disease is a type of cancer of the lymphatic system. It begins in cells of the immune system. It happens when a lymphocyte (usually a B cell) becomes abnormal‚ called a Reed-Sternberg cell. The Reed-Sternberg cell divides and makes copies of itself. The division of the new cells continues‚ making
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