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    Lou Gehrig's Disease

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    | Lou Gehrig’s: | A Debilitating Disease | | Tina Jones | 1/20/2013 | | Tina Jones Dr. Jensen A & P II 20 January‚ 2013 Lou Gehrig’s: A Debilitating Disease Lou Gehrig’s disease‚ amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)‚ is named after the New York Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig. He died in 1941‚ two years after he was diagnosed with ALS. The disease was then named after him. ALS is a degenerative disease that is characterized by the loss of motor neurons‚ with progressive

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    arteriosclerotic vascular disease) is a condition where the arteries become narrowed and hardened due to an excessive build up of plaque around the artery wall. The disease disrupts the flow of blood around the body‚ posing serious cardiovascular complications. What is atherosclerosis? Atherosclerosis (or arteriosclerotic vascular disease) is a condition where the arteries become narrowed and hardened due to an excessive build up of plaque around the artery wall. The disease disrupts the flow of blood

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    Rheumatic Heart Disease

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    Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) is a chronic heart condition that accounts for approximately 2% of all cardiovascular mortalities worldwide. It is most prevalent in developing countries where the actual disease burden is higher due to overcrowding‚ poverty and the lack of sufficient health care. The indigenous people of Australia and New Zealand‚ Africa and south-central Asia are at the greatest risk of suffering this disease. “The average annual incidence of acute rheumatic fever in children aged

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    AGRONOMY 150 Methods of Plant Breeding I Laboratory Exercise / IPB Trip 5 Lecture on Disease Resistance and Stress Tolerance Breeding SAN PASCUAL‚ ALANGELICO O. 2011-33543 DISEASE RESISTANCE AND STRESS TOLERANCE BREEDING Breeding for disease and insect resistance on several vegetable species were being conducted in the institute of plant breeding. Stress tolerance breeding is done as an interdisciplinary and intermodule project of the Physiology division and the different breeding modules in the

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    Silent Killer Disease

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    Disease is a silent killer. Sometimes you’re dead and gone before anyone even realizes what happened. Many societies in American history have been greatly affected wiped out because of a disease. And to other people that disease could be just the flu‚ take some medicine and get over it‚ where one out of thousands die from it. The article 1491 says‚ “The epidemic (probably of viral hepatitis‚ […]) took years to exhaust itself and may have killed 90 percent of the people in coastal New England.”

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    Understanding of Alzheimer Disease Introduction Loss of memory‚ forgetfulness‚ personal change‚ even death‚ are common related disorders caused by a disease called Dementia or better known to most people as Alzheimer ’s disease. This disease is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States in persons 65 and older. Alzheimer ’s disease is‚ named for the German neurologist Alois Alzheimer‚ who first recognized the disease in 1907; Alzheimer ’s disease is characterized by a progressive

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    Diabetes‚ a hereditary disease. Is diabetes a hereditary disease? For many decades‚ researchers have been looking for the answer to this question. Studies have shown that diabetes does run in the family. If you get diabetes as a child or later in life‚ you still had to have some genes that predisposed you to it. Studies have shown that even though this disease is hereditary‚ there are many causes of diabetes. There are two kinds of diabetes‚ each that is caused by different genes. Diabetes

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    sickle cell disease

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    ‘How could natural selection increase the number of children born with sickle-cell disease in certain regions when these individuals are unlikely to survive and produce offspring?’ Darwin’s theory proposes that 3 conditions are a requisite for natural selection to occur. They are a struggle for existence of the offspring as they are competing for limited resources‚ variation within species which gives some individuals advantage over others hence better chance of survival and lastly inheritance

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    Heart Disease in Women

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    States (US) is heart disease; it is also the leading cause of disability among women. Currently‚ “8 million women in the US are living with heart disease; 35‚000 are under the age of 65” (Women’s Heart Foundation‚ 2011). Among American women in 2005 over 36 million were age 55 or older increasing their risk of coronary heart disease (Garvin‚ Moser‚ Riegel‚ McKinley‚ Doering‚ & An‚ 2003). . Coronary heart disease claims the lives of over 200‚000 females yearly. The disease more significantly impacts

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    Ischemic Heart Disease

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    Ischemic Heart Disease (IHD) Coronary heart disease (CHD)‚ also known as ’ischemic heart disease’‚ is the most common form of heart disease. There are two major clinical forms – heart attack (often known as ’acute myocardial infarction’ or AMI) and angina. Coronary heart disease is the term that describes what happens when your heart’s blood supply is blocked or interrupted by a build-up of fatty substances in the coronary arteries. Over time‚ the walls of your arteries can become clogged

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