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- 1811: Muscular Dystrophy
- ... her daughter, who will also become a carrier. The son of a carrier also has a 50% chance of being affected (see Fig. 4). Mothers of boys who have DMD are not necessarily carriers. The child could have been affected by a new mutation. Duchenne muscular dystrophy, being an inherited disease, is present from the very first stages of fetal development. Yet, at the time of birth there is no physical ... a minority of boys with DMD are mentally retarded, it is more frequent than in other children. Unlike the muscle weakness, any intellectual handicap an affected boy may have, is not progressive. Whatever intelligence the child is born with, whether he is of superior, average or less than average intelligence, is what he retains unless affected by something else. As mentioned in a previous paragraph, movement of the joints becomes difficult ... continue to weaken until breathing can no longer be sustained without the use of a machine. Currently, prenatal genetic counseling is the best way to determine the chances of a woman giving birth to a child with DMD. Such counseling is strongly recommended for women who have had males in their family affected by the disease. To find out if a boy has DMD, there are four types of testing. ...
- 1812: Ozzy Osbourne
- ... can mean hell on this earth, hell is on this earth." As Ozzy grew with His music it changed in many ways because of the fact that his life was getting better and his drug abuse was slowing down His music started to take a different approach. It started to change from a lot of depression to things that were going on in the era he was in or things that ... and how they arent stopping the wars and how the people try with protests but the wars still go on with or without them. Ozzy becoming a father helped him realize that his drug abuse should come to an end. In the late eighties Ozzy went completely sober. He had previously been addicted to coke Cain and had a serious alcohol abuse problem. Ozzy had been heavily-drinking since he was thirteen. November 1984 Ozzy admitted himself into the Betty Ford clinic for rehab of drug and alcohol addiction. After getting out of rehab Ozzy becomes ...
- 1813: I Stand Here Ironing Literary
- ... he was walking and talking some. I barely new him, just as Tillie barely knew her daughter when she got her back: "When she finally came home, I hardly knew her." Soon, I had another child (Kevin) and less time to spend with Charles. There were many times that I wished I had more time with both of them. I can remember a few different times when I would get up ... Kevin have always been as diametrically opposite as two people can be. Charles has always preferred quiet times by himself 'writing', coloring or drawing. It is not often he shows the natual exuberance of a child. He's like Emily, "she had a physical lightness and brightness twinkling by on skates, bouncing like a ball up and downup and down over the jump rope, skimming over the hill; but these were ... he would just look at me. I knew he did not want to be left, but I had no choice if I was going to keep them in my custody. Tillie, also, knew that her child hated being left, but she also had no choice because she had to work: "It was the only place there was. It was the only way we could be together, the only way I ...
- 1814: Hemophilia Manitoba
- ... extremely rare. The majority of the people have hemophilia A. In hemophilia A, the particular factor missing is 8 for clotting. Because hemophilia is sex-linked disorder, it can be passed on from mother to child. This is because the gene responsible for making blood factors 8 and 9 are only found on the X-chromosome. If a female is a carrier that means that she has one bad gene and one good gene for this disease. There is a fifty percent chance that she would pass it on to her child because she can only pass on one of the two chromosomes. If a male has hemophilia, he will have normal sons and all of his daughters will be carriers of the hemophilia disorder because all ... Prince Henry of Battenberg and they had several children from the marriage. The two sons both acquired the hemophilia gene from their mother and died of the ages twenty and thirty-one. Victoria s second child, Alice was born in 1843 and married Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt. There were two sons of the marriage, of which one died at the age of three because of hemophilia. There ...
- 1815: The Life of Jack London
- The Life of Jack London Jack London was born January 12, 1876 in San Francisco California. Jack's parents' were Flora Wellman and William Chaney. Flora had grown up wealthy in Ohio. As a child Flora was stricken with thyroid fever which stunned her growth and ruined her looks. In June 1874 Flora started living with astrologer William Chaney. In the summer of 1875 when Flora told Chaney that she ... depression kept led her into a mental institution. Six months later, on January 12, 1876, Flora gave birth to her son, whom she named John Griffith Chaney. Flora was too sick to care for her child. She sent the boy to live with Virginia Prentiss. Prentiss, was a friend who did not have any children. Flora needed this time to rebuild her life and start anew. Within the year she married ... by the time Jack arrived near his father, he was sick to his stomach. Jack later became an alcoholic and wrote a book referring to his first brush with alcohol called John Barleycorn. As a child the London's moved a numerous amount of times. Jack, lived on a farm, so there were many chores to do. When he had spare time, Jack, read. Books, came to be Jacks closest ...
- 1816: Hemophilia 4
- ... hemophilia become visible early in life. Newborns often show no signs of hemophilia unless the are circumcised . This causes extensive bleeding. If the infant is not circumcised, signs of hemophilia don't show until a child starts crawling or walking in which bruised markings appear were they have fallen or hit something. Hemophilia, in mild forms, may not show up later in life, until extensive bleeding occurs only after surgery, tooth ... away by infusion of a clotting factor replacement, a medicine called desmopressin. If you have hemophilia or think you may carry the trait, prenatal testing and genetic counseling can help you wether or not your child could inherit hemophilia. There is special treatment for hemophiliacs. Already the drug desmopressin was brought to your attention. This drug helps stop bleeding by stimulating the release factor eight and making blood contract. If you ... important in a hemophiliac. Hemophiliacs should put every effort into not letting tooth decay happen. Parents of children who have hemophilia should inform a dentist so that every precaution is taken to not make the child bleed. Even the most common procedure such as a tooth extraction can be a major health hazard. Only absolute necessary surgery should be performed on hemophiliacs. If recurrent internal bleeding has destroyed any of ...
- 1817: Biography of Edgar Allen Poe
- ... mid region of Weir" of his own fertile and troubled imagination. His father was David Poe, a Baltimore actor. His actress mother, Elizabeth, born of English parents, had come to the United States as a child. The two were not notably talented; they played minor roles in rather third-rate theatrical companies. Between them they barely managed to make a living. Edgar was the second of their three children. About the time the third child was born, the father died, or disappeared, and Mrs. Poe came to Richmond with the two youngest children. The older boy, William Henry, had already been left with relatives in Baltimore. Mrs. Poe was in ... immoral. John Allan could not help regarding the little son of actor parents as a questionable person to inherit his name and the fortune he was busy accumulating. He was willing however, to support the child, and in time came to be proud of Edgar's good looks and intelligence. England and Home Again When Edgar was six years old, Mr. Allen's business took him to Scotland, the country ...
- 1818: Max Planck
- Max Planck Justin Thomas Period 4 Chemistry 10/08/96 On April 23, 1858 Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck was born in Kiel, Germany. He was the sixth child of a law professor at the University of Kiel. At the age of nine his interest in physics and mathematics was developed by his teacher Hermann Muller. When he graduated at the age of seventeen ... physics. The later part of Max Planck's life is filled with sadness. In 1909 his first wife died after twenty- two years of marriage. He later married another women in which he had one child. His children from his first wife which was Marie Merek included twin sisters and two sons who managed to all die before he did. His first son Karl was killed in action in 1916 and then one year later Margarete one of his daughters died in child birth. Two years later, Emma his other twin daughter died the same death as her sister. As if the first war hadn't damaged him enough World War II destroyed his house completely and ...
- 1819: Armenian Genocide
- ... the government. Their official duty was to protect the Russian border, but they spent most of their time plundering and looting Armenian villages instead. The Armenians created revolutionary groups called fedayees in response to this abuse. In 1894, Armenians in Sassun refused to continue paying the extortionary tax to the Kurdish. So Abdul-Hamid ordered Turkish along with Kurdish soldiers to go over to Sassun and to put an end to ... During the deportations Armenians were very desperate. Women often had to leave their small children at the side of the road in order to increase their own chances of survival. Others with more than one child would leave the weakest behind. One boy tells of the treacherous gendarmes. When they were on their way in a caravan the gendarmes told them that that a group of Kurds was advancing toward them ...
- 1820: A Study Of The American Revolu
- ... through their first winter. Regardless of the obstacles facing them, these people pressed forward in search of economic and religious freedom. Freedom from a country, whose Kings and Parliament would often promise changes, then would abuse those changes for personal gain. To escape from this fickle government and to pursue their dreams many fled to the New World to set up their ideal colonies. The primary goal of these voyagers was ... on them, which were completely foreign to what they had become accustom. Had England, from the beginning, taken control of the colonies we would most likely be speaking with British accents. If you raise a child without rules and regulations in the earlier years of their life and then place curfews on them, make them pay rent and tell them who their friends are what do you expect to happen? Revolution ...
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