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Sickle Cell Disease, an Overview

This research paper offers a comprehensive overview of sickle cell disease (SCD). First of all, the writer describes the gene muta...

Sickle Cell Disease Awareness and Advocacy Strategies

promote new and innovative treatments for sickle cell disease, as well as to increase the quality of life in those who have the di...

Overview of Sickle Cell Anemia

patterns have lead researchers to conclude that a cure is looming in the not too distant future. But will it come in time, the stu...

Understanding Sickle Cell Anemia

and intermittent episodes of vascular occlusion causing both acute and chronic pain. It is estimated that 70,000 Americans of diff...

Sickle Cell Anemia and its Biochemistry

cells which carries oxygen throughout the body, is spherical and soft and as such is ideally suited to traverse the sometimes cons...

Treatment of Sickle Cell Anemia

long as several days, which detrimentally impacts the bones, back and chest, with recurring crises inflicting damage upon lungs, k...

Sickle Cell Anemia

but can pass it on to their children (TeensHealth, 2007). The Mayo Clinic (2007) indicates that, "Approximately one in 12 black Am...

Sickle Cell Disorders

circulation problems (Bennett, 2005). When oxygenated properly, the cells may return to the normal round shape, unless they are al...

Sickle Cell Anemia, Genetic Bases

This overview of sickle cell disease discusses the genes associated with sickle cell anemia. Three pages in length, five sources a...

Information on Sickle Cell Anemia

This research paper offers a comprehensive discussion of sickle cell anemia that includes its causes and also the geographic and d...

Epidemiology and Treatment of Sickle Cell Anemia

This research paper describes how sickle cell anemia results from factors pertaining to hemoglobin. The writer describes crises th...

Sickle Cell Anemia and Bone Marrow Transplants

In a paper consisting of six pages pros and cons of bone marrow transplants for the treatment of sickle cell anemia are discussed....

Historical Impacts of the Disease Malaria

in World War II and those serving in the military in Vietnam. We have experienced this disease even more directly, however, right...

Case Assessment of Neurological and HEENT Assessment

muscle responses and her muscle strength appeared normal. She complained of pain during assessments of physical condition, but th...

Anemia

name can be traced to an ancient Greek word that translates to mean "without blood". The term "anemia", however, encompasses a va...

Medical Ethical Dilemma - Stem Cell Research

totipotent cells, which becomes the placenta and inside the blastocyst are numerous embryonic stem cells (Sumanas, Inc., 2007). It...

Differences In The Way A Mammalian Cell And Yeast Cells Coordinate Cell Growth And Cell-Cycle Progression

cells, which means that there must be check points as there is a constant average size in a yeast cell population, if this were no...

Favoring Stem Cells

in some tissues they become a "sort of internal repair system," creating enough cells to replenish those that die off, a process t...

Current Literature Overview on Breast Cancer

In a paper consisting of twelve pages breast cancer issues are examined in terms of relevant current literature coverage of the di...

Frontline Video/Parkinson's Disease

reported in an episode of Frontline on Parkinsons disease, which has a very personal significance for him because Iverson is himse...

Research on Stem Cells

This essay discusses several aspects of stem cells and stem cell research beginning with what are stem cells and why are they so i...

Cell Structure Aspects and Current Research

In ten pages cell structure aspects are examined in terms of current research and include a consideration of nerve cells, cell div...

Important Discoveries in Microbiology

Pneumococcal disease has proven a very serious foe for human populations. This disease has...

Cellular Structure Overview

In eight pages cellular structure is presented in an informational overview and includes cell definition, distinctions between the...

Stem Cell Research/Not an Ethical Issue

equivalent. Stem cells are extracted while the embryo is, as yet, an undifferentiated ball of microscopic cells referred to as a b...

WHY WE STUDY THE CELL AND ITS COMPONENTS

cell or trillions of cells, these cells share a network of what is called organelles that allow the cell to function (Cell structu...

Research Uses of Aborted Human Fetuses

In five pages this paper examines how aborted human fetuses can be used in stem cell research to treat such medical conditions as ...

Structure of the Brain and Alzheimer's Disease Impact

In five pages this research paper examines how Alzheimer's Disease influences the patients' brain cells and structure. Eight sour...

STDs and VD

In five pages this paper discusses venereal disease and other types of sexually transmitted diseases including genital herpes, Hep...

Overview of Mad Cow Disease

In five pages this paper discusses mad cow disease or bovine spongiform encephalopathy in an etiology overview that includes the 1...