New embryo test could detect thousands of hereditary disordersby
pvedmom
prospective parents to test their IVF embryos for any known genetic disease. The test, dubbed 'a genetic Mo... embryos prior to implantation in order to avoid having children with debilitating hereditary conditions...
Hereditary Pancreatitisby
Dr. Anshu Gupta
. Hereditary pancreatitis is a progressive disease with a high risk of permanent problems.
Causes, incidence...-dependent diabetes.
Prognosisof Hereditary Pancreatitis
As with any chronic disease, the effects...
Is Back Pain Hereditary? What About Obesity?by
Dr. Eben Davis
by patients, if back pain, or even obesity is hereditary? My personal opinion, which comes from many years... and diseases such as obesity, diabetes, cancer, and heart disease get passed along to us in our genes. I don...
Fishy links to multiple myeloma, NHL and leukemiaby
Margaret
A blog reader, thank you!, sent me a study titled Dietary Fish Intake and Risk of Leukaemia, Multiple Myeloma, and Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, published in “Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention” in April 2004. The full stud
Feline Leukemiaby
heru m.
It is pretty confusing to deal with feline leukemia in litters of young kittens... unaffected. Some kittens (or cats) who are infected with feline leukemia will develop immunity to the virus...
Is crohn's diseasehereditary?
Is crohn's diseasehereditary? My mother died from colon cancer, my daughter has crohn's disease and now I have been diagnosed with a microscoptic bacteria that is akin to the above problems.
Ellencrap
Leukemia- is it contagious, can a leukemic get HIV?
If some is infected with Leukemia can they spread the disease through sexual contact? In addition, can a person with leukemia contact HIV? Bruce Dezube, M.D. Leukemia- is it contagious, can a leukemic get HIV? Leukemia can NOT be spread through sexual contact. Patients with leukemia can contractcrap
Is Alzheimers genetic?
My mother has Alzheimer's Disease, does this mean I wil get it also? I seem to inherit her health problems.
Robinlcrap
Hereditary Angioedema : New Therapies for Rare but Potentially Fatal Disease
that came to my office for an initial evaluation in January of last year. She has a rare disease that is associated with recurrent swelling of the hands, feet, arms, legs, face, genitalia and throat. The disease is hereditary... care unit visit.
Hereditary Angioedema (HAE) was elegantly reviewed by Dr. Busse about four years...crap
How Does Huntington's Dementia Differ From Alzheimer's?
Huntington's disease (HD), also known as Huntington's Chorea, is an inherited progressive form of dementia. The disease, first described by Dr. George Huntington in 1872, is a predominantly inherited one. Although Alzheimer's disease (AD) can be inherited too it is not a single gene cause as in HD.
In Huntington...crap
Is Alzheimer's hereditary?
My older sister has been diagnosed with Alzheimer, and I want to know if it is hereditary. She is 67 years old. There has been no other history in the family.
Wendycrap
Hello Kathie..i was directed in this site and its pretty good that this site has a Q&A in it..
I have a question regarding my situation. One time i went to a dermatologist. and she said i have a hereditary skin disease.but then I forgot what she said because its latin words.. could you please help me?...hmm my skin disease is hereditary- and it is small blisters/rashes that could be seen on my back, on my upper...crap
Periodontal desease & swollen Glands on the face
Hi Doc Vergel; I have had HIV since '86, and also have inherited Periodontal disease, I've gone to dentists who do the general cleaning, but at times like the present when I'm under extreme stress, I tend to loose weight and my the glands on the side of my face swell, along with every other gland in my body...crap
MAC
I have a rare form of chronic leukemia, that causes severe chronic neutropenia. I have been on neuprogen (on & off) since being diagnosed in 1997. Even being on neuprogen, my neutrophil count ranged... a normal white blood cell count will be your best hope of eliminating the MAC disease, but I cannot promise...crap