Essays on Health

Medicine has been improving over the years, treatments and procedures became safer and more efficient, medications began to be mass produced and of course more effective and accessible to people. These advances would have not been possible without those scientists that through history had make…

Introduction So many innovations have come across before our very eyes as the course of history went on through millions and millions of years. From the first wheel to the new and latest version of the iPhone, so many ideas and discoveries have sprung forth…

Imagine someone being born with a genetic disease that has no cure and they only have a certain amount of years to live before they die. Huntington’s Disease is defined as being an inherited disease in which causes the body nerve cells to continuously breakdown…

What Is Huntington’s Disease? Huntington’s is a disease in the brain, Huntington’s disease affects the Neurological and nervous system. Huntington’s disease is passed on from generation to generation through an altered gene from your parents. Huntington’s causes the death of brain cells in parts of…

The marginalized communities experience the challenges in the U.S.— systemically, socially, mentally, and physically. A closer scope in the marginalized communities, among the Latinx d/Deaf people experience oppression in the U.S. school that impacts their identities and languages. The education in U.S. are running by…

Narrative In my early 40s I began to have more difficulty concentrating, and I remember feeling unusually forgetful. For a while, I ignored these symptoms until I started to uncontrollably twitch and make fidgety motions. When the chorea started, it was clear to my doctor…

The average lifespan of the world is 72 years. However, cancer and certain disorders can cut that number down drastically. One of those disorders is the Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD). DMD is a sex-linked disorder that arises from a mutation in the gene that codes…

Introduction Muscular dystrophy is a group of inherited diseases which are characterized due to skeletal muscle weakness and degeneration. This is a progressive disorder because it will replace the healthy muscle fibers into fibrosis and fat, making muscle tissues less capable of generating force for…

Discovery of Penicillin Penicillin is a group of antibiotics — which includes: penicillin G, penicillin V, procaine penicillin, and benzathine penicillin — that attack a wide range of bacterial infections. Penicillin antibiotics is one of the first medications that is effective against many bacterial infections…

Vaccination is the way how to prevent humanity before infection diseases. It is beneficial in reducing mortality and population growth. Is not only protection for us but also protection for our community. In the 18th century died 400 000 people on smallpox only in Europe….