Blood-borne disease

parents, to ascertaining if there are any risks of having cancer or diseases. Results of genetic testing may help access on how severe a disease might be and find the best solution to diagnose it. It will also help determine the chances of developing or passing on a disease to an offspring. Genetic testing identifies changes in chromosomes, genes or proteins to determine the risk of developing more common diseases such as heart disease. Though these tests has expanded in variety throughout the…

The symptoms of the disease need to be managed. Children affected by this syndrome will need support from many medical professionals. Young kids will need support from Early Intervention for the speech and physical abnormalities. Severe speech problems can be helped through…

interfere with your sight. In some cases, skin tags may change their appearance. If this happens, we recommend you visit our specialist to have the tag evaluated. It may not be a skin tag at all, but a mole that needs a biopsy to determine if any disease is developing. There are several methods that we use to remove skin tags, starting with cutting it off with sterile surgical scissors. Other methods are freezing the tag with liquid nitrogen or burning it off with electric cautery. The most…

GULF MEDICAL UNVERSITY, AJMAN – UAE PHASE II: COURSE (MED 202) BLOOD AND IMMUNE SYSYEM Assignment: 17TH SEPT 2015 GENETIC COUNSELLING, ETHICAL ISSUES IN MANAGEMENT OF HEMOGLOBINOPATHIES Objectives 1. Describe risk assessment in genetic counseling One of the most important aspects of genetic counseling is the provision of a risk factor. Estimation of the recurrence risk requires consideration of: i) The diagnosis and its mode of inheritance ii) Analysis of the family pedigree iii) The results…

Progeria is a progressive genetic disorder that causes premature aging. It is extremely rare, as only one in four million newborns, will have it worldwide. Progeria is also call Hutchinson-Gilford Disease, after Dr. Jonathan Hutchinson, who described the disease first in 1886, and Dr. Hastings Gilford, who did the same thing in 1904. In 2003, Researchers from The National Human Genome Research Institute, The Progeria Research Foundation, The New York State Institution for Basic Research in…

marathon or climbing the tallest mountain but being unable to because of a terminal disease that leaves the body incapable. While some diseases are easily cured, others require harsh treatments that have unknown outcomes and the worst of those diseases are incurable. Two such incurable diseases are Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis(ALS) and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy(CTE). ALS is a progressive degenerative disease that affects one's entire body, leaving it paralyzed while the brain stays…

No soybean variety is completely resistant to brown spot, but varieties differ in partial or rate-reducing resistance and can be used to help protect against the disease. The relative maturity of a soybean variety influences the onset of brown spot. Symptoms appear earlier in the growing season with earlier maturing varieties. Plant high-quality seed within a maturity group to fit your climate, and don’t skimp on…

Yellow Fever Yellow fever is a potentially deadly infection that has the power to kill with just a bite from a mosquito. This infection, that mainly began in the 1900’s, has caused many people to have nasty symptoms and even death. This potent disease has gruesome consequences if it is allowed to reach the further stages, and it has the ability to transmit rapidly within a short period of time. The initial symptoms will appear three to six days after being bitten by a mosquito. The three to…

The condition was first described by Dr. Samia Temtamy and John Rogers in 1976. The syndrome is named after the Greek goddess proteus who can change his shape. The most thought of person when people think of this condition is John Merrick, commonly known as the elephant man. The condition is rare only about a hundred people have it today. It is still something to worry about when you have a child. Proteus syndrome is the overgrowth of bones, skin, and tissue.…

Cancer is a condition where abnormal cells grow and divide or normal cells divide at an accelerated pace more times than they should. Cancer.gov describes cancer as follows “Cancer is the name given to a collection of related diseases. In all types of cancer, some of the body’s cells begin to divide without stopping and spread into surrounding tissues.” The human body is a marvelous machine. It is designed from top to bottom to operate at optimum efficiency and this requires the periodic and…