Marfan's Syndrome is a genetic disorder that affects the body's connective tissue. Connective tissue makes up much of bone, cartilage, tendons and ligaments. Dr. Marfan first recognized Marfan's Syndrome in 1896. The disorder affects about 1 in every 10,000 newborns and currently ...

Blood is carried throughout the body within a network of blood vessels (arteries, veins, and capillaries). When our tissues are injured, the blood vessel is disrupted, and we bleed through the holes in the blood vessel wall. Normally, we stop bleeding through this process-the formation of the platel...

Sickle Cell Anemia, is a hereditary disease, which affects red blood cells. Throughout this paper, I will talk about what exactly it is, how it is caused, any known treatments or cures, and many other facts that are important in this disease. Sickle Cell Anemia is a health problem throughout the w...

Hemophilia Hemophilia is a genetically inherited bleeding disorder which is caused when one of the plasma proteins (needed to clot) is missing or abnormally formed in the blood. The word Hemophilia comes from the Latin word hemo, meaning blood and the word philia, meaning: having a tendency toward...

Down Syndrome Down syndrome is caused by a third, or extra, copy of this chromosome. It is the smallest of the 24 human chromosomes and contains about 225 genes. There are descriptive characteristics to down syndrome such as mental retardation, distinctive eyes, shortened life span, thick tongu...

Hemophilia is a genetic disorder passed from one generation to the next through the X (female) chromosome. It is a disease in which the blood does not clot normally, due to abnormalities in some blood proteins that cause clotting. People with hemophilia (hemophiliacs) have blood that clots very sl...

Hemophilia is a hereditary bleeding disorder where essential factors needed to make blood clot are missing. The abnormal hemophilia gene is found on the X sex chromosome. This abnormal gene is there in place of the factor VIII gene. People without the factor VIII gene have hemophilia A. Also, th...

Sickle-Cell Anemia Hemoglobin, an oxygen carrying protein in blood, is sometime altered in people causing interruptions in the circulation of blood. This is known as Sickle-Cell Anemia. In the United States, Sickle-Cell Anemia is found mostly in blacks. About 1 in 400 blacks in ...

Rh Disease Rh disease is a blood disorder that affects over 4,000 babies in the United States every year. This disease affects newborns every year because of an incompatibility between the mother's blood and her fetus during pregnancy. It causes severe destruction of the fetus' red blo...

Treating Disease with Stem Cells This article was written by Dr. Gregory Hale, professor of Pediatrics at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, in response to questions posed by Scientific American Magazine regarding the treatment of certain diseases with cord blood stem cells. Ther...

HYPERTENSION Hypertension is a common disorder characterized by a sustained elevation of systolic arterial pressure (top number) of 140 mm Hg or higher, or a diastolic arterial pressure (bottom number) of 90 mm Hg or greater, or both. Hypertension is divided into two categories: essential (o...

Marfan's Syndrome In 1896 the French pediatrician Antonin Marfan first characterized and named the disease Marfan's Syndrome, also known as Arachnodatyly an MFS. In the past many have suffered, even died due to the lack of knowledge held by the medical profession pertaining to complicat...

AIDS By Adam Hans A virus is the smallest particle that consists of a nucleic acid and it attacks your cells just like the Aids virus. They can not replicate themselves it must use a host cell. For instance, if we were to catch a cold our cells would be the host cells. They attach to the h...

AIDS is a life and death issue. To have the AIDS disease is at present a sentence of slow but inevitable death. I've already lost one friend to AIDS. I may soon lose others. My own sexual behavior and that of many of my friends has been profoundly altered by it. There currently is neither a cure, no...

The AIDS Epidemic in India India, being one of the most populated countries in the world, is suffering due to its poverty and lack of health care, allowing AIDS to rapidly spread among the region. AIDS – the acquired immuno deficiency syndrome, is spread by a virus called human immuno deficie...

HIV/AIDS Virus Paper There our many different kinds of fatal diseases in the world. However, the AIDS virus has infected over 600,000 people in the United States since 1981, and over 900,000 people have been infected with HIV as well. Half of the peop...

HIV/AIDS Virus Paper There our many different kinds of fatal diseases in the world. However, the AIDS virus has infected over 600,000 people in the United States since 1981, and over 900,000 people have been infected with HIV as well. Half of the peop...

In the beginning diseases were thought to be a kind of punishment from God, rather than an infection caused by a foreign body. Later this was found to be untrue, and we now have an entire field of science devoted to the study of these diseases, the foreign bodies that cause them, and treatments for ...

A study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC) reported that as of the end of June 2001, there were 793,026 cases of AIDS in the USA. Of these 793,026 people; 79% were men, 21% were women, and 1% were children less than 13 years of age. AIDS(acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) is ...

The great heroic god, Vol, had just acquired wisdom by helping man defeat the great almighty creature, the sphinx. To help mankind, Vol gave wisdom to man. He said, With the strength the gods have given me, I have defeated the great creature. The wisdom the gods have...

The AIDS Epidemic Initial Draft Today, forty million people are estimated to be living with HIV/AIDS. With an astounding number of cases being reported each year, something must be done to educate the world's youth about the dangers of this pandemic. With over 40,000 cases of HIV/AIDS bein...

AIDS What does AIDS mean? AIDS stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. One of the most popular theories of the origin of AIDS is that the virus was restricted to a small part of Central Africa. It was thought to be in the mountains of Eastern Zaire. This virus is a type of hunta ...

Being one of the most fatal viruses in the world, AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome) is now a serious public health concern in most major Canadian and American cities and in countries worldwide. Since 1986 there have been impressive advances in understanding of the AIDS virus. Even though...

Tattoos are becoming a popular phenomenon that is seen everywhere. Today's youth are getting permanent tattoos to be cool and trendy, but are not considering the long-term effects. Teenagers should be aware of all that body modification may include, it is not just a pretty picture. Adolescence...

In 1981, a new fatal, infectious disease was diagnosed--AIDS (Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome). It began in major cities, such as New York, Los Angeles, Miami, and San Francisco. People, mostly homosexual men and intravenous drug users, were dying from very rare lung infections or from a ca...