Necrotizing Fasciitis/Myosits (Flesh Eating Disease)
.... it is called Necrotizing Myositis.
Background
The first record of the disease was in France in 1783. The disease
occurred throughout the 1800's and 1900's, but was usually only found in
military hospitals in times of war. Some outbreaks have occurred also in
civilian populations. There seemed to be some decrease in the 1940's, and
then another outbreak in the 1980's.
Ontario is the only province in Canada where there is statistics on
serious group a streptococcal infections (including necro .....
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Angina Pectoris
.... coronary heart disease
remains the number one killer in the world.
The media today concentrates intensely on drug and alcohol abuse,
homicides, AIDS and so on. What a lot of people are not realizing is that
coronary heart disease actually accounts for about 80% of all sudden deaths.
In fact, the number of deaths from heart disease approximately equals to
the number of deaths from cancer, accidents, chronic lung disease,
pneumonia and influenza, and others, COMBINED.
One of the symptoms of cor .....
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Haemophilia
.... of haemophilia, haemophilia A and B. Haemophilia A
is a hereditary disorder in which bleeding is due to deficiency of the
coagulation factor VIII (VIII:C)3. In most of the cases, this coagulant
protein is reduced but in a rare amount of cases, this protein is present
by immunoassay but defective.4 Haemophilia A is the most common severe
bleeding disorder and approximately 1 in 10,000 males is effected. The most
common types of bleeding are into the joints and muscles. Haemophilia is
severe if the factor V .....
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Lassa Fever: An Old World Arenavirus
.... and died, the doctors in the hospital began to suspect it was
a disease heretofore unseen by any of them. Autopsy on the nurse showed
significant damage to every organ in the body, the heart was stopped up, with
loads of blood cells and platelets piled well into the arteries and veins.
Fluids and blood filled the lungs. Dead cells and lipids clogged the liver and
spleen. The kidneys were so congested with dead cells and free proteins they had
ceased to function. Dissecting the lymph nodes, they disc .....
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Herpes
.... is a virus that forms small sores.
What it does? The stages
Just before the sore appears the skin may have a itching or
tingling feeling. When the sore does appear it "weeps" ,developes scabs,
heals then dissappears. Herpes 2 comes back again and again.
Treatment
Herpes should be treated by a doctor for many reasons. Treatments
are aimed at easing pain, more so than curing the disease.
How it is spread
Herpes is spread by direct contact with the Herpevirus. A virus
inside the sores. If you .....
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Leprosy
.... common now, as the
world case count has dropped below 1 million. During 1995 about 530 000 new
cases of leprosy were discovered. It is obvious that third world countries have
way more cases as India, Indonesia, and Myanmar account for almost 70% of the
cases reported in the world. 5500 know cases of Leprosy still exist in the US,
and about 200 cases a reported annually.
Tests to produce leprosy in experimental animals, have not been
successful as of yet. Though the organism can be grown in Armadillos .....
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Medicine: "Microsurgery: Sew Small"
.... two pieces of spaghetti together and you'll have
some idea of what microsurgery involves.
Twenty-five years ago, this man's thumb would have been lost. But in the
1960s, surgeon's began using microscopes to sew what previously had been
almost invisible blood vessels and nerves in limbs. Their sewing
technique had been developed on large blood vessels over a half century
earlier but could not be used in microsurgery until the needles and
sutures became small enough. The surgical technique, still widely .....
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Leukemia
.... with the growth of the red blood cells, normal white
blood cells, and the blood platelets. The uncontrolled growth of the abnormal
white cells produces a tendency to unstop bleeding, the risk of getting serious
infection in the wounds, and a very small possibility of obstruction of the
blood vessels.
Treatment of these Leukemias include chemotherapy with alkylafing agents,
or antimetabodies that suppress the growth of abnormal white cells. Another
treatment of some kind would be the x-ray or the a .....
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Tumours
.... of its
invasive and metastatic characteristics. The tumour grows locally by
spreading into surrounding tissues. Solid tumours, which develop in the
breast, colon, lung, and other organs, contain an inner core with high
pressure zones that compress and collapse blood vessels, often preventing
the penetration of blood-borne cancer treatments. It spreads to distant
sites by the breaking off of malignant cells, which move through the blood
and lymphatic systems, attach themselves, and begin to grow as new .....
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Leukemia
.... such as Down’s syndrome,
are also believed to increase the risk factor. Exposure to some chemicals is
also suspected to be a risk factor. By learning the causes of leukemia
treatment options will become available(MedicineNet-leukemia, 1997).
There are many symptoms of leukemia. The symptoms of leukemia are the same
for all the different types of leukemia. The acute types of leukemia, ALL and
AML, symptoms are seen more quickly than in the chronic types of leukemia, CLL
and CML, where sy .....
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Turner's Syndrome
.... she get good medical
care regularly.
Bibliography:
Biology Today. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. 1991: Page 217.
"Turners Syndrome." Via CD-ROM: Compton’s Interactive Encyclopedia: 1996
Edition.
"The Turner's Syndrome Society of the United States." Via the Internet:
"http://www.turner-syndrome-us.org/".
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Lucid Dreaming
.... wings.
Sometimes people become lucid without noticing any particular clue in the dream;
they just suddenly realize that they are in a dream. A minority of lucid dreams
(about 10 percent) are the result of returning to REM sleep directly from an
awakening with unbroken reflective consciousness (LaBerge, 1985). These types of
lucid dreams occur most often during daytime napping. If the napper has been REM
deprived from a previous night of little sleep their chances of having a REM
period at sleep onse .....
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Mad Cow Disease
.... to contract the disease, and
the recent issues of BSE in the world. I hope to set out the true facts about
BSE and that it only affects a small percent of the world population. Due to
the fact BSE is a new disease most of my information might be proven wrong in
the future because there is a great deal of testing going on in the scientific
community. They are also very concerned about this new disease and the effects
it can have on humans if it is not stopped.
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy is no .....
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Malaria
.... disease specific, but the parasites are
too, with only 60 of 380 species of female Anopheles mosquitoes as vectors.
With the exception of Plasmodia Malariae which may affect other primates, all
parasites of malaria have only one host, Homo sapiens. Because some mosquitoes
contain substances toxic to Plasmodium in their cells, not all species of
mosquitoes are vectors of Plasmodium. Although very specific, malaria still
causes disruption of over three hundred million people worldwide each year (Cann,
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Male Circumcision: A Social And Medical Misconception
.... (Lund, 1990) Despite these statistics, circumcision still remains a
topic of great debate. The medical community is examining the need for a
surgical procedure that is historically based on religious and cultural doctrine
and not of medical necessity. Possible complications of circumcision include
hemorrhage, infection, surgical trauma, and pain. (Gelbaum, 1992) Unless
absolute medical indications exist, why should male infants be exposed to these
risks? In essence, our society has perpetuated an unnec .....
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