Cystic Fibrosis
Your child is under weight, has greasy, smelly diarrhea, a chronic cough and seems to always be getting pneumonia. He wheezes when he breathes and has impaired exercise ability. He seems to never being growing to the average size of his peers and his skin is very salty. The doctors first instinct ....
Cystic Fibrosis
Cystic Fibrosis
You might ask, what in the world is Cystic Fibrosis? Unfortunately, this disease does not get the publicity that other diseases get, although it should because Cystic fibrosis is an inherited chronic disease that affects the lungs and digestive system of about 30,000 childr....
Cystic Fibrosis
Cystic Fibrosis is a progressive lung disease that results in the decline of lung function. Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is an inheritable disease that affects the bodys ability to produce efficient mucous. The affect of the disease causes the mucous throughout the body to be very thick and sticky, makin....
Downs Syndrome
All children that are born with Downs Syndrome (previously called mongolism) have a common characteristic appearance and may also share similar congenital birth defects.Dr John Downs, of whom the condition is so named after, found that children who were born with these similar characteristics and th....
Spreading the Word of Fragile X Syndrome
Spreading the Word
Introduction
Fragile X syndrome is an X-linked dominant hereditary condition, which results in mental deficits and
developmental delays ("Genetics"). Since this is an abnormality of a sex chromosome which can be transmitted
from parent to child, it was given the n....