Disease Definition and 135 Threads

Anybody heard of this disease?? 'Vasculitis' its supposed to be some disease of the blood vessels when the person infected gets itchy patches or something. My dad was diagnosed with it recently and so I would be grateful for info. Thanks!

WHat is the worst and formidable disease ever in human history? Why?

I am surprised that this term was not found in this or the biology forums when I searched for it. I'd never heard of it until my sister, a pediatrician mentioned it in conjuction with a discussion about MRSA and infectious diseases in genera. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fomite The term...

A man in his early twenties who is normal learns that his father has developed Huntington's Disease, a rare, fatal disease caused by a dominant allele, which usually manifests itself in middle age (since the disease is rare, it is safe to assume that he is heterozygous). What is the probability...

hi :smile: i am new over here,needed a little help from u people. i have an assignment to do in which i have to discuss about any 4 examples linking dna mutation to disease

There are many articles on PubMed in regard to what is termed Vibroacoustic Disease. The majority of human studies appear to center around aerospace workers and long term exposure to LFN (low frequency noise). Is this phenomena recognized as valid in the scientific community, or is the jury...

I don't subscribe to believeing the chemtrail conspiracy (as its based on a false premise that all contrails should instantly dissipate), but the other day i was walking home when it started raining and my arms started itching, i looked at them and they were covered in red blobs and rashes. I...

I was wondering if anyone knew anything about epidemic models which take into account the ability of a disease to mutate. Basically I’m curious if there are any existing models which could predict how a rapidly changing disease might affect the progression of an epidemic, or how slower...

Homework Statement Approx. 1/1000 has a disease, and the method of testing has a 5 % false positive rate. If a random person tests positive, what is the probability that he has the disease? Homework Equations I'm pretty sure Baye's theorem is the thing to use. The Attempt at a...

Is it okay to eat pure amino acids or can they cause disease?

Assume there is a population of a given (even) size. One person is ‘infected’ in the beginning. During every ‘round’, everybody in the population pairs off and ‘interacts’ with her partner. If an infected person interacts with an uninfected person, the uninfected person is then infected. If two...

Freakin' ticks! I just got diagnosed this morning with Lyme's disease. Not too surprising since I live just three towns over from Lyme, but dang! Talk about throwing a monkey wrench into my plans! I'm doing a half marathon in three weeks and all my joints are grinding, I've got "sand" in...

I was just reading about "Morgellons Disease". At first I thought this was a psychotic symptom. I've definitely heard of similar crawling sensations experienced by schizophrenia sufferers. But it sounds like there might actually be a strange dermatological condition that these people are...

Now I am going to throw away all of the assumptions of the original thread and make one other. Let's assume that the physicalists are right. There is no God or Creator. All that is is the natural result of the Laws of Physics, Chemistry and evolution. Who or what now do we blame for all...

According to the CIA: http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-11-16T215913Z_01_MCC676343_RTRUKOC_0_US-CUBA-USA-CASTRO.xml

Have bacteriophages ever been known to be responsible for a disease that we have a name for? I know bacteriophages only plant their lunar landers on bacteria, but have they ever destryed good bacteria, say within out digestive track en mass? ie have bacteriophages ever gotten anyone sick...

Is it possible to prevent it? I heard that learning another language, solving puzzles and stuff like that could protect our mind against this sicknesses, is it true?

I saw this question on Swordfish (awesome movie!) and wanted to ask a variation of it here. If you had the chance to permanently cure all diseases, but the price of doing this was that you had to kill a child, would you? How bout 100, how bout 10,000?

So I apparently have lyme disease. The splotch I mentioned in the flu thread has been getting larger and darker (4 inches across by an inch and a half to 2 inches wide). Also my fever has been up to 103 a couple times in the past few days. And I have a couple more baby splotches on my arm and...

Waht is the difference between the syndromes and a disease becase arent they all genitacally passsed down?

Some people develop Alzheimer's disease after a blow to the head. Has physical damage been done to nerve cell apparatus e.g the endoplasmic reticulum,Golgi apparatus,by the pressure of a blow to the head?

Hello, my name is Richard D. O'Neal, I have a question about lympatic Lymphatic system plays a very important role in immunologic defenses. But how can a physician determine the disease's main location ? Thanks a lot

Is fatal degenerative brain disease inevitable? If we could transplant ourselves into clones every 20 years or something like that, how long would we be able to live before degenerative brain disease, or something like that, killed us?

Vampyred! I have a question...how long does it usually take a lab to do blood work on you? :confused:

Med Hypotheses. 2005;64(4):717-20. Is Gulf War Syndrome actually chronic Lyme disease? Owen DC. Department of Accident and Emergency, College of Medicine, University of Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff United Kingdom, Cardiff, UK. Symptoms of Gulf War Syndrome and chronic Lyme disease are...

Haemolytic disease and the rheasus blood group... Why do you get haemolytic disease in a baby ( not first baby) if the mother is Rh- and her anti D antibodies cross the placenta, yet it is fine to tranfuse Rh- blood to a Rh+ recipient, which will also contain anti D antibodies? Thanks in...

I think it is. Gay people trend to do what organism suppose not do. organism should **** the opposite sex.

In mad cow disease, perhaps the prions cause the brains naturally similar proteins to change into the new form because the new form is somehow more efficient to reproduce than the other, natural form. Perhaps it could be the path of least resistance for the brain to produce the protein in the...

I just read the following article and can't understand why stapling the stomach would be an expense that might get covered under insurance? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52835-2004Jul15.html If stapling the stomach reduces the amount of food that gets in, is that the...

This title is implying the vast disease of society now a days.. the TV goers, leisure time wasters, etc... It also refers to the diseases in society... the vast spreading numbers of STDs and such... Also SARs in China (my homeland) and who in the world implanted that deadly stuff in my...

I have no clue of what is wrong with me. I had a chemistry test this Thursday and I had studied thoroughly two days before the test. When the day came, my brain completely knowcked out and I could not remember what I should do to solve the problems. Some of reasonings were successful because...

I didn't know it until the U.S. case of mad cow disease appeared. You see what happens when feedlots, etc., result to utilizing Cannibalism? I mean, feeding cattle the ground up remains of their own kind! Ugh. I think I will just eat fruit from now on, the only problem is I can never find an...

Often while channel surfing late at night, I'll see an infomercial with some doctor who claims that all ailments are caused by too much acidity in the body. So far, I have always flipped the channel immediately and given it no further thought. Now while web-surfing I found this website which...

Unexplained Cattle Deaths and the Emergence of a Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (TSE) Epidemic in North America National Institute for Discovery Science 4975 South Polaris Ave. Las Vegas, NV 89118 nids@anv.net Please see the pdf file for the complete report...

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