breathe. Lung cancer causes a large amount of stress and damage on the lungs. In your body you will find you lungs midway down your chest cavity. If you were to see your lungs outside of your body, they would look like large spongy like organs. Your left lung is smaller to allow room for your heart. As you begin to take a breath, air enters through your mouth then travels down the lungs and through the trachea or more commonly known as the windpipe. Your trachea is divided into two tubes which
narrowing the options down to a single source. Ironically, I began to have a change of heart while attempting to impress my internal medicine attending by staying late after evening rounds to look up an interesting case on patient A.C.. Based on her history and physical exam, I came across Hermansky-Pudlack Syndrome, a rare disease that the patient has never been told about. Excited with this new diagnosis, I began to inquire more about A.C., before proposing this syndrome to my attending. Unexpectedly
bloodstream easily, these sickle cells can clog blood vessels and deprive the body's tissues and organs of the oxygen they need to stay healthy. Unlike normal red blood cells that last about 4 months in the bloodstream, fragile sickle cells break down after only about 10 to 20 days, which usually causes anemia. Anemia (pronounced: uh-nee-mee-uh) is what happens when the body's number of red blood cells (or amount of hemoglobin) falls below normal. People who are anemic often feel weak and tire more
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is an increasing problem in our world today. At least 5,000 infants are born each year with FAS, or about one out of every 750 live births, which is an alarming number. In the United States there has been a significant increase in the rate of infants born with FAS form 1 per 10,000 births in 1979 to 6.7 per 10,000 in 1993 (Chang, Wilikins-Haug, Berman, Goetz 1). In a report, Substance Abuse and the American Woman, sent out by the Center on Addiction
satisfaction, an article by Julian Baggini states, “Happiness is just whichever state provides humans with lasting satisfaction and is good in itself.”, meaning that Happy can be in any state of brief pleasure but, it won’t be the same as something that will last longer and have goodness to itself. He needs to be able to look back on his life feeling like he has done everything to feel happy in the end. Along with that, Happy is really lonely, even if he is more successful than his older brother. He feels empty
bloodstream to look for chromosomal defects in an unborn fetus (Darnovsky and Stern). Currently, NIPTs can only detect chromosomal defects, but they are predicted to eventually have the ability to detect single-gene diseases, the risk factor for DNA-based diseases, and even other characteristics such as personality traits (Allott and Neumayr). One negative effect of these NIPTs is that the abortion rate for some chromosomal diseases such as Down Syndrome, Tay-Sachs disease, and Turner’s Syndrome have drastically
article, Melinda Smith explains, “However, when most people talk about the autism spectrum disorders, they are referring to the three most common PDDs: Autism, Asperger 's Syndrome, and Pervasive Developmental Disorder - Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS)”. Smith continues to say, “Diagnosing an autism spectrum disorder is not a brief process. There is no single medical test that can diagnose it definitively; instead, in order to accurately pinpoint your child 's problem, multiple evaluations and tests
associated with a lack of tonic or phasic atonia (REM without atonia) without there being clinical symptoms of dream-enacting behaviors. Therefore, REM without atonia appears to be necessary, but not sufficient, for the appearance of the full-blown RBD syndrome. This raises an interesting question: What and/or where is the mechanism of action of clonazepam in the reduction of the dream-related motor behavior during REM sleep? Is at the locomotor center, or some more rostral center(s) involved in the
Introduction Down syndrome is a disorder with a genetic basis: the fertilized egg that develops into a child with Down syndrome has three Chromosome 21s instead of the two found in individuals without Down syndrome. Children with Down syndrome experience neurocognitive deficits in the areas of language development, communication, memory, and higher order thinking skills that depend on judgment and integration of concepts (Davis, 2008). The significance of these impairments for teachers and educational
cancer. · family history of colon cancer or intestinal polyps. Risk is more than doubled if a close family member such as a parent, sibling or child has colon cancer. · A condition known as hereditary nonpolposis colon cancer syndrome is also genetic. · Relatives that had an early on set of colon cancer · Individuals over the age of 50 are at an increased risk · African-Americans are at a slightly higher risk · Highest in developed countries such as