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Hgh: Age-Reversing Miracle (Woodland Health Ser)
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Spelling Love with an X: A Mother, a Son, and the Gene That Binds Them
: :A memoir of raising a child with a genetic disorder When her son, J.P., was first diagnosed with fragile X syndrome, the most common inherited cause of mental retardation, Clare Dunsford discovered that she and three of her four siblings carried the fragile X premutation and had therefore passed on the full mutation to J.P. and several of his cousins. An English professor by training, Dunsford draws on poetry to explore her new identity as a 'mutant' and reflect on her life with J.P., a colorful young man with great ...
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Muscular Dystrophy (The Facts)
: :The muscular dystrophies are a group of genetic diseases that severely affect children and adults. For sufferers and their family, the illness presents enormous physical and psychological challenges. Written specifically for people with muscular dystrophy and their families, this book answers many of the questions asked about how and why muscular dystrophy occurs, and how it will affect the life of a recently diagnosed child. As well as presenting the reader with advice and an explanation of muscular dystrophy, the book also guides the reader towards further information on societies ...
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Dear Megan: Letters on Life, Love and Fragile X (Capital Cares) (Capital Cares)
: :Mary Beth Busby and Megan Massey have something in common--they are both mothers of two sons with Fragile X syndrome (the most common form of inherited mental retardation and the most common cause of autism). When Mary Beth Busby's sons, Robert and Jack, were born in 1964 and 1965, Fragile X had not even been identified as a genetic abnormality. By the time Megan Massey's sons Jack and Jacob were born in 1989 and 1991, a few researchers had identified it, but few pediatricians knew it existed. Today it is ...
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Cystic Fibrosis: The Facts
: :Cystic fibrosis is one of the most common genetic diseases in Caucasian populations. One in 2,500 babies are born with the disease, usually to parents who have no idea that they each carry one defective CF gene. CF affects the respiratory and digestive systems and, despite major improvements in treatment over the last 20 years, the disease is usually lethal before the third decade of life. Treatment is lifelong and time-consuming, necessitating eating enzyme capsules with every meal to help digest food, daily physiotherapy to keep the lungs clear of ...
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The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Hemochromatosis
from: Icon Health Publications
: :This book has been created for patients who have decided to make education and research an integral part of the treatment process. Although it also gives information useful to doctors, caregivers and other health professionals, it tells patients where and how to look for information covering virtually all topics related to hemochromatosis (also Bronze Diabetes; Cirrhosis, congenital pigmentary; Familial Hemochromatosis; Hemochromatosis Syndrome; Hemosiderosis; Iron Overload Disease), from the essentials to the most advanced areas of research. The title of this book includes the word official. This reflects the fact that ...
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I Just Am
: :All too often, we shroud ourselves in ignorance, thus preventing us from learning from others whom we consider to be somehow 'different.' In a book that is both charming and disarming, Bryan Lambke—a young man with Down syndrome—invites us into his world where he lets us know he shares the same dreams and emotions as everyone else. 'I have a disability,' says Bryan. 'It is not my fault. I just am.' Bryan, with the help of his father Tom, helps us all examine what is normal about each of us. ...
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Genetics and Society: A Sociology of Disease
: :Genetic science has advanced rapidly in recent years; things happen now that might have seemed like science fiction only ten years ago. Genetics and Society looks at the history of this science and the wide-ranging impact it has had on contemporary society. Using fascinating and cutting-edge examples throughout, Anne Kerr examines topics as diverse as:* the institutional structures that have grown up around the diagnosis and treatment of genetic disorders* the media representation of genetic debates from designer babies to the genetic sources of alcoholism* the politics of genetic decision-making ...
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Analysis of Multifactorial Diseases (Human Molecular Genetics)
: :Analysis of Multifactorial Diseases examines the evidence of genetic factors that increase susceptibility to a range of complex diseases and describes the approaches taken to identify these genes. It reviews the successes and failures and examines whether there are any general conclusions to be drawn from this current range of approaches.
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THE MADNESS OF ADAM AND EVE : HOW SCHIZOPHRENIA SHAPED HUMANITY
: :Analysis of Multifactorial Diseases examines the evidence of genetic factors that increase susceptibility to a range of complex diseases and describes the approaches taken to identify these genes. It reviews the successes and failures and examines whether there are any general conclusions to be drawn from this current range of approaches.
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