This month we are studying human biology and will be working our way through the different human body systems and comparing the systems to various animal taxa. To that end our blog this month will focus on human disease on these human body systems.
I would like you all to find a disease that affects a particular system and how it is treated or share a new discovery in medicine associated with that disease. Below is a link that might help you find a recent news article to site.
http://www.newsmax.com/Health/
If you use the search window at this site you can find lots of articles to consider. I will start us off by modeling:
Shingles is a disease that affects the skin and nervous systems. It is caused by the same virus that causes chicken pox, and remains latent in our bodies. Later in life, especially, during times of stress or when our immune system is weakened the virus erupts as shingles. New vaccines for shingles have shown some protection from this very common disease.
http://www.newsmax.com/Health/Dr-Hibberd/shingles-vaccine-chickenpox/2015/02/03/id/622483/
