Neurofibromatosis

Autosomal recessive inheritance is the third type known to cause muscular dystrophy, whereas both parents are carriers of the defective gene. For this reason the offspring have a 25% chance of being affected with both malformed genes, resulting in them being affected. The chance increases with cousin marriages.

Lyme disease was unknown to people in the early 1970s and may still be unknown if not for two mothers in Lyme, Connecticut. The mothers both noticed their kids and others in their town had the same symptoms and started trying to figure out what was wrong. The medical field began studying the groups symptoms to try and find a cause. By the mid 1970’s the new disease was called Lyme but no one knew what was causing it. In 1981 scientist Willy Burgdorfer who studied Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever started to study Lyme disease. He found the cause of the disease in a deer tick. He had discovered a bacterium called a spirochete. In 1982 the medical field named the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi in honor of his discovery.

      Many of the doctors of the time were amazed at the horrible disease. Physicians were stumped about cure or even remedies of this illness. The only advice they could offer is to get away from it and start off new

Familial melanoma is a genetic or inherited condition. This means that the risk of having a melanoma can be passed from generation to generation in a family. Ordinarily, each cell has two copies of each gene: one inherited from the mother and one inherited from the father. Familial melanoma follows a dominant inheritance pattern, in which case a mutation happens in only one copy of the gene. As every cell has two copies of each gene, it means that a parent can potentially pass along a copy of his or her normal gene or a copy of the mutated gene. Therefore, a child who has a parent with a mutation has a 50% chance of inheriting that mutation. A related person such as a brother or a parent of the person who has a mutation also has a 50% chance of having the same mutation.

A permanent change in a gene that can be passed on to children. The rare, early-onset familial

In the late 1700’s, Edward Jenner published his work on the development of a smallpox vaccination. Nearly a century later, Louis Pasteur goes on to formulate the Germ Theory of Disease. Two years later, Pasteur goes on to create the first live attenuated bacterial vaccine for chicken cholera. Six years later, the rabies vaccination is developed by the same man.

The disease was first noted in 1786 by Caleb Hillier Parry 1755- 1822, physician from General Hospital, Bath, England. His account was published posthumously in 1825.

The main symptom of these disorders is tumors that form on the ends of nerves throughout the body. NF 1 is most commonly

It was discovered in the early 1800s by French physician Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laënnec. He talked about the disease in one of his lectures in 1804 and in his journal in 1806. The journal, with his views and findings about the disease, was published. The name melanoma was given to skin cancer by him as

Neurofibromatosis is one genetic disorder that causes tumors to form on nerve tissues in the body. The most common places that they have formed are the brain, spinal cord, and nerves, but can be found anywhere in the nervous system. As neurofibromatosis is usually diagnosed during childhood or early adulthood, tumors usually are noncancerous, but over time can become cancerous. The symptoms are usually mild, but getting looked at right away to have a healthy growth and development will make everything go smoother. Since there are tumors pushing against nerves, surgery is usually the best fit in order to get rid of the tumor and to start living a healthy life (Mayo Clinic, 2016). This genetic disorder involves one in every 4000

The disease was discovered in 1909 by Carlos Chaga. It is considered one of the five neglected parasites infections.

According to a book by Gordon Charles Cook, the first description of an attack that was later determined to be Familial Mediterranean Fever was discovered in 1908. It was a discovery of "…recurring attacks of a peculiar nature," Cook explains (Cook, 2009). It was a 16-year old Jewish schoolgirl without "…special neurotic inheritance" who suffered from severe abdominal pain, Cook writes. The pain consisted of

Not only has the naming of the disease come a long way, the history of trachoma goes back probably as far as the existence of man. The first documented evidence of the disease was five to ten millennia ago when humans settled together in fertile places such as ancient Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq to Egypt).

It has been possible that this disease has been known since ancient times. One of the earliest probable records of this disease was recorded by the Egyptians around 1550 B.C. (Stanford, 2005). After that, the next recordings were found in India approximately in 600 B.C. and in

The Finnish doctor, Erik von Willebrand was the man who found this disease. He discovered this disease by observing families in the Aland Islands. When observing this families, he was able to describe this disease, but he wasn’t able to distinguish it from a