Is hypospaedia a congenital or hereditary deformity?

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hypospadias is a congenital developmental abnormality that is acquired during fetal development, it can be of 3 types, usually defined by the location of the opening of the urethra in relation to the scrotum. good news is it can be fixed by surgery.  (+ info)

Cures for hereditary diseases?

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I'm doing my paper in biology on 'Can we cure hereditary diseases?' and I was wondering if anyone has personal experience with any, if so which, and the treatments/cures available
Can't cure a hereditary disease as most are autoimmune or deficiencies in some aspect of a patient's physiology.

Basically, we can treat the symptoms, but we can't cure the disease sadly.  (+ info)

how to classify diseases in the following categories: 1.physiological, 2.pathogenic, 3.hereditary,4.deficiency?

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for each category describe fully what is meant by each term giving examples.
Get the 2pac flow goin  (+ info)

My sister is about to marry her second cousin...Hw cn v ensure their child is safe frm congenital diseases?

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Don't marry. Believe it or not this aspect is fully ensured in the horoscope and astrology when it is well written and read by great people of wisdom. The particular conjoining does not match and marriage does not take place in such believers. The ancient wisemen did know what we now seems to know through science. The idea incest could have been one reason why Darwin thought differently from creation to evolution. We do have references in the Greek Tragedies of Sophocle's Theban plays, Oedipus Rex and Antigone, though in some places it is the right of the Cousins, perhaps started from a tradition where the family must have thought that the family wealth should not go out of the family. And therefore daughters and sons of brother and sister marry each other, and where these are happening it is legal.  (+ info)

Are all major sicknesses/diseases hereditary?

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Does someone have to have them in your family for you to get them?
Like brain problems, stroke, heart diease, cancer?
well not all of them. Some things are hereditary. You should have a look at ur family history. it might give you a idea of what to look out for. Just because someone in ur family has it doesnt mean u will  (+ info)

hereditary diseases in elderly people?

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What kinds of diseases are hereditary that would affect the quality of life for elderly people? I'm looking for things like Parkinson's Disease, Arthritis, etc. Please help! This is for a project that is due tomorrow
Arthritis (although it is almost entirely preventable with proper nutrition); Parkinson's; Senile Dementia (also almost entirely preventable with proper nutrition); Diabetes (also almost entirely preventable with proper nutrition); Memory Loss (also almost entirely preventable with proper nutriton); Cancer (also almost entirely preventable with proper nutrition).

There's a start for you.  (+ info)

Is keloid hereditary diseases?

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i am hoping answers from parents who themselves had keloid and their kids did not or they did inherit the conditions. I have read untill the age of 14 kids don't suffer from keloid.
Keloid is a skin injury and is not a hereditary disease  (+ info)

what are three classifications of hereditary diseases?

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hhhhmmmmmmm ...

1. x-linked
2. autosomal recessive
3. autosomal dominant  (+ info)

I have congenital nystagnus, if I have a baby will they be at risk for developing this anymore than others?

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Around 5 months age I was diagnosed with congenital nystagnus, I have always wanted kids, and assumed I would have them. But in reading about parenting, I am starting to become concerned that if I have a child they will be more at risk for developing this than any other child. Is that so? Is nystagnus hereditary? Or is my child no more likely to develop it than any other child?
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What diseases does a sperm bank test for?

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i am planning to become a mother and am wondering about the safety of sperm banks in the U.S. i'm worried about hereditary diseases such as cancer. any help would be appreciated.

-mary
Hi Mary,

I used a sperm bank here in the U.S. and they are required to test for everything that the FDA requires. I am sure that no donors have any hereditary form of cancer in their immediate family. Here's the list of diseases that they posted on their site:


* Chemistry Panel
* Complete Blood Count
* Urinalysis
* ABO-Rh Blood typing
* HIV
* HTLV I/II
* Hepatitis B Surface Antigen
* Hepatitis B Core Antibody
* Hepatitis C Viral Antibody
* Syphilis (RPR)
* CMV IgG/IgM
* Chlamydia
* Gonorrhea


* 4 generation family medical history, which is reviewed by a trained genetic specialist or a medical doctor (all donors)
* Cystic Fibrosis screening for 33-86 mutations in the Cystic Fibrosis gene (all Caucasian donors)
* Chromosome analysis (all donors)
* Thalassemia (all donors). An HPLC analysis is done to detect this indirectly. Please contact us if you would like to have your donor genetically screened for carrier status.
* Tay-Sachs disease (donors with Ashkenazi Jewish or French Canadian ancestry)
* Canavan disease (donors with Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry)
* Familial Dysautonomia (donors with Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry)
* Fanconi Anemia type C (donors with Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry)
* Gaucher disease (donors with Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry)
* Niemann-Pick type A disease (donors with Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry)
* Sickle Cell Disease (donors with African ancestry are genetically screened). For all donors an HPLC analysis is done to detect this indirectly.


Here's the URL in case you would like to have a closer look: http://www.europeanspermbankusa.com/  (+ info)

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