ABSTRACT In Conventional medicine with the advancements in technology, Gene therapy has become an upwelling in therapeutics and has introduced promising prospects for the prevention and cure of incurable or difficult to cure diseases. ... Here we look at some of the research done to approach the Diseases from a genetic standpoint. ... Diagnosing of Alzheimer's disease is not a simple task as there is no one test that give a definitive result to the presence of the disease. ... Gene therapy is a technique that utilizes genes to treat symptoms of diseases. ... This makes gene therapy a very...

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MS is a well-known disease, but poorly understood. ... Therefore, I feel we all need to have a better understanding of this disease that has no cure yet. ... MS is a life-long chronic disease diagnosed primarily in young adults who have a virtually normal life expectancy. Consequently, the economic, social, and medical costs associated with the disease are significant. ... The situation for diseases such as multiple sclerosis is more complicated. ...

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Many people suffering from deadly diseases such as AIDS, and some cancers volunteer to die rather than take the pain. ... When people have an incurable and debilitating illness, extreme suffering, and lose of personal dignity, that is when mercy death is recommendable because it would reduce immediately the pain of the patient. ... For instance, people with incurable diseases or extremely ill patients must go to court, and then the court will decide if they are allowed to use assisted suicide. ...

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In passive euthanasia, by withholding intravenous feedings, medications, surgery, a pacemaker, or a respirator, the doctor can let the patient die of the underlying disease. ... The medical experience has taught that the incurable man may ask for his end under the state of unbearable suffering, but when his pains shrink or stop, life reappears and the appeal is now for its preservation and not for its ending. ...

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Commonly known as ALS or Lou Gehrig's Disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a neurodegenerative disease that attacks nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. ... It is estimated that 128 million people suffer from diseases that could potentially be cured with stem cell research. The cost of these diseases on our health care budget is over 100 billion dollars annually. ... As in ALS, Parkinson's Disease and Alzheimer's are caused by nerve cell degeneration. ... Researchers believe it will be possible to cure diseases of the bone and cartilage by using stem cells to grow ...

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The disease that struck there went by no name at all, because no one had ever seen it before. After the disease had struck about 30 people, it slowly went away and disappeared but not after being named the Marburg virus. The next time this disease struck was in August 1976, in Zaire. ... Although much is known about the agents of Ebola hemorrhagic fever disease, the ecology of Ebola Viruses remains a mystery. ... Emotionally it will cause a lot of pain just based the fact that you have a disease that is basically inc...

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The Sexual Revolution In 1998, President Bill Clinton's confession that he had had an inappropriate relationship of a sexual nature with White House intern Monica Lewinsky started a national discussion about how a politician's personal moral standards might affect his or her ability to lead. Cl...

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The Right to Die: The Legalization of Euthanasia Christiaan Barnard, a South African cardiac surgeon, once said, "I have never seen any nobility in a patient's thrashing around all night in a sweat-soaked bed, trying to escape from the pain that torments him day and night" (Walker 18). Should a...

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(World Book Dictionary) defines "euthanasia" as, "n. 1 a painless killing, especially to end a painful and incurable disease; mercy killing" ("euthanasia"). ... There are many terminal diseases on this planet in which we live, but none running more rampant than cancer. ... Cancer is a disease that has high potential to be terminal. ... If immunology is the study of the immune system, and the immune system is designed to fight off diseases; consequently, there is the ability to catch a disease. ... Premise #4 – If we have a weak immune system, we can be prone...

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My grandfather was a great man, but I had to watch the spark in his eyes die, as his mind crumbled and he succumbed to Alzheimer's disease. Ironically, Nathan Jay Friedman lived a healthy life, swimming nearly every day, taking vitamin supplements, washing his hands to the verge of obsession "yet died of an incurable genetic curse. ... Had he lived just a few years more, these omnipotent cells may have been able to cure his debilitating disease. ... These cells have been utilized to cure patients stricken with severe genetic disorders, and have the potential to cure many more genetic...

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The first cloned sheep, Dolly born 6 years ago, died from a developing lung disease. ... Cloning has also contributed to breakthroughs in defeating fatal diseases. ... Biotechnology was intended to enhance the treatment and cures of diseases by the uses of microorganisms and the organs of animals. ... No one can argue with a person who wants to medicate and treat the incurably sick but is genetic engineering may not necessarily be the right answer. ... For instance, celebrities who are affected by these terminal diseases such as Michael J. ...

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MS is a well-known disease, but poorly understood. ... Therefore, I feel we all need to have a better understanding of this disease that has no cure yet. ... MS is a life-long chronic disease diagnosed primarily in young adults who have a virtually normal life expectancy. Consequently, the economic, social, and medical costs associated with the disease are significant. ... The situation for diseases such as multiple sclerosis is more complicated. ...

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Up until this time, the causes and cures for diseases were attributed to supernatural or metaphysical causes. ... Around 1771, Maximillian Hell, who was a Viennese Jesuit, became known for cures that he attained by applying a steel plate to the bodies of people who were sick or diseased. ... Franz Mesmer was said to be curing patients doctors called "incurable". ... Mesmer developed the theory "animal magnetism", and surmised that a universal magnetic fluid existed in all "objects that produced disease when it was out of balance in the human body" (Baker, 1990, p. 53). ... Thornton (1976) conc...

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Kraepelin grouped mental diseases that were previously considered unrelated under the term dementia praecox. ... For instance Bleuler in 1908 claimed the disease was an organic brain deterioration and thus incurable and introduced the term schizophrenia to replace dementia praecox (Phillips & Ketelsen, 2003). ...

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The subject of this conversation was a disease that she has, called Endometriosis. ... She continued on describing to me what it is and the problems associated with this disease. ... Endometriosis is a disease affecting an estimated 77 million women and teens worldwide. ... With all of these possible causes of how endometriosis develops, it's only natural to wonder what the symptoms associated with this mysterious disease might be. ... Contrary to common misconceptions about the disease, there is no cure. ...

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This disease was portrayed as humorous and easily controlled. ... In 1885, he studied and described to medical doctors the symptoms of this disease, in which he discovered caused those afflicted to exhibit uncontrollable "tics- (Fowler, 1996, p. 33). The disease later became known as Gilles de la Tourette syndrome. ... It is a completely different disease because, unlike MPD, TS sufferers are aware of the mind being engaged in a "never-ending struggle- (Fowler, 1996, p. 36). ...

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An international panel of the World Health Organization defined palliative care as "the active total care of patients whose disease is not responsive to curative therapies" (qtd. in Foley 293). ... According the Center for Disease Control (CDC), the average life expectancy is currently 77.2 years compared to almost a century ago when it was only 47 years ("Life"). ...

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Mental retardation refers to substantial limitations and subnormal of intellectual development as a result of congenital causes, brain injury, or disease and characterized by any of various cognitive deficiencies, including impaired learning, social, and vocational ability. ...

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Children were kidnapped from their homes and sent away to camps, and the children that were useless were killed by starvation, lethal injections, and disease. "Hitler initialed an order to kill institutionalized, handicapped patients deemed incurable." ...

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The people of this time believed the humming could be decreased by pouring herbs, oils, and salts into the "diseased ear." ... Fallopius (1563) noted that individuals suffering from tinnitus due to syphilis are incurable. ...

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This research found that dental decay remained New Zealands most chronic and irreversible disease, with one in three adults having untreated tooth decay. ... They also believe that the intake of fluorosis can produce severe and incurable skeletal fluorosis. ...

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These grounds were, "not bearing a son, being licentious (lacking moral or sexual restraint), not waiting on her mother-in-law, nagging, stealing, showing jealousy, or contracting an incurable disease." ...

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There are many signs from birth that can imply a child may be suffering from an incurable condition of autism. ... Autism is estimated to occur in as many as 2 to 6 in 1,000 individuals (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2001). ...

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The people of this time believed the humming could be decreased by pouring herbs, oils, and salts into the "diseased ear." ... Fallopius (1563) noted that individuals suffering from tinnitus due to syphilis are incurable. ...

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This so called "mercy killing" gives the patient a chance to escape potentially long-term suffering and misery resulting from terminal diseases and conditions that are hurting and or slowly killing the patient. This method of death also gives the individual a chance to decide when to end his or her life, by committing suicide in a peaceful manner rather than waiting through prolonged and continuous periods of suffering from the disease that it is killing him or her. ...

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