... Cystic Fibrosis does not affect the intelligence of those having Eide 3 the disease. Eric Rountree of Dalhousie University reports that other manifestations of cystic fibrosis may include high electrolytes in the sweat glands, diabetes due to destroyed pancreas, dehydrated mucous in the airways, lung infections. Rountree also states that women can have children but 98 percent of men are infertile. Few people may discover ... later in their life that they have cystic fibrosis when chronic symptoms occur such as male infertility and cirrhosis of the liver. Some symptoms of cystic fibrosis ...

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... patients often experience fear, anxiety, and depression. The motor neuron damage and muscle atrophy caused by ALS is not painful. Some of the effects of ALS may be painful. Common pains as a result of ALS include pressure sores, muscle cramps, joint contractures, constipation, burning eyes, swelling feet, and muscle aches. ALS occurs in both sexes and all races, although men are much more likely to get ALS ... than women. Older people are more likely to develop ALS than younger people. The average age of ALS commencement is 55. ALS can affect people at any age, and cases have been found...

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... the ability to block or slightly change cancerous mutations in normal cells during cell division and differentiation (Klein). Oncologists, Stanbridge and Ceredig, found that if human cervical carcinoma cells (cervical cancer) were crossed with normal human fibroblasts and injected into mice, the malignancy was suppressed and cancerous cells eventually ceased to multiply. However, this experiment has not shown great success ... in humans. With more research and trials, this could be a very responsive form of cancer treatment. Treatment research is a vast and complex idea. The main theory...

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... (Health Central) Although scientists have documented cases of MS in young children and elderly adults, symptoms rarely begin before age 15 or after age 60. Whites are more than twice as likely as other races to develop MS. In general, women are affected at almost twice the rate of men; however, among patients who develop the symptoms of MS at a later age, the gender ratio ... is more balanced. (Waxman) To understand what is happening when a person has MS, it is first necessary to know a little about how the healthy immune system works. The immune system -- a complex network of specialize...

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... Central) Although scientists have documented cases of MS in young children and elderly adults, symptoms rarely begin before age 15 or after age 60. Whites are more than twice as likely as other races to develop MS. In general, women are affected at almost twice the rate of men; however, among patients who develop the symptoms of MS at a later age, the ... combination-that is, they have more than one of the three HLAs-more frequently than the rest of the population. Furthermore, there is evidence that different combinations of the HLAs may correspond to variations in disease severity and...

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... Central) Although scientists have documented cases of MS in young children and elderly adults, symptoms rarely begin before age 15 or after age 60. Whites are more than twice as likely as other races to develop MS. In general, women are affected at almost twice the rate of men; however, among patients who develop the symptoms of MS at a later age, the ... combination--that is, they have more than one of the three HLAs--more frequently than the rest of the population. Furthermore, there is evidence that different combinations of the HLAs may correspond to variations in disease severity a...

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