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Usher syndrome – “a genetic disease causing deaf and blindness.” A simple definition. In essence, this disease slowly blinds you by progressive retinis pigmentosa, as well as ruin your hearing through congenital hearing loss. This particular disease can only be inherited, and is uncommon becuase it is a recessive trait. It can occur in an estimated 1 in 11,000 people.
There’s good news for people at risk for limb amputation due to complications from diabetes: A new laser procedure has been shown to be highly successful in “salvaging” limbs, thus providing a new alternative in the fight against amputation.
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Hand SanitizerMake alcohol-based hand sanitizers, liquid hand soap, and wipes!Since January, health authorities have identified more than 550,000 Covid-19 cases throughout the United States. So far, 21,000 — about 3.8% — of those patients have died. New York has become the epicenter of the country’s outbreak with 66,497 confirmed cases and 1,218 deaths so far. When adjusted for population, that translates to roughly 342 known cases for every 100,000 residents. But experts say those numbers don’t give the whole picture because many cases — including mild or asymptomatic infections — have not been diagnosed. States have also approached testing differently. In New York, where officials have been testing aggressively, the number of known cases is now doubling about every two days. Meanwhile, in California, the number of known cases is doubling about every three days.
Food allergy is triggered when a reaction occurs after contact with a particular food to which you are sensitized. Allergy caused from allergic response can range from mild or moderate to severe. Here are some practical tips to manage food allergies.
Periodontitis (gum disease) is a common human affliction, affecting one third of all adults, and over half of the population over the age of 50.
This article describes recent events in Turkey about the bird flu virus. Are we now staring the danger right in the eye without the medications yet?
So why are health experts becoming alarmed about the H5N1 (?bird flu?) virus? People are concerned because the virus has demonstrated the ability to kill a high percentage of the humans it infects.
Human Papilloma Ciruses (HPV) is a virus that infects humans. Some of the effects of the virus are associated with sexually transmitted diseases (STD’s).
There is no treatment that will cure genital warts by removing the virus, but if warts are present, they can be removed in a number of ways.
Many arthritis sufferers have tried unusual and rather nasty ?cures? for their disease like enduring bee-stings or covering themselves in cow-manure. The benefits must have been rather less spectacular than the cures or else everyone else would have done the same.
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