Hemophilia

Hemophilia

Hemophilia (heem-o-FILL-ee-ah) is a rare bleeding disorder in which your blood doesn't clot normally. For example if you have hemophilia and get an injury you would bleed a longer time than others. You also can bleed internally. This bleeding can damage your organs or tissues.

Alexei Nikolaevich: Inherited hemophilia from his mother Alexandra. His mother hired a priest named Grigori Rasputin who claimed to have the ability to heal Alexei.

History:

Hemophilia was first recognized in the Jews. They stated a law that if a woman had two sons that died from circumcision her third son would not be required to be circumcised. This is when they recognized that women carried the hemophilia gene. The hemophilia blood disorder became known as the royal disease because Queen Victoria was a carrier and passed the carrier down to many of her daughters. In the royal families of many nations in Europe would marry into each other’s families.

Symptoms:

• Big bruises
• Bleeding into muscles and joints, especially the knees, elbow, and ankles
• Spontaneous bleeding
• Bleeding for a long time after getting a cut
• Serious internal bleeding into vital organs

Causes:

· The disorder is inherited.

· It most often affects males.

· It is a recessive sex linked disorder.

· The x chromosome of a recessive a trait.

How is it diagnosed? :

• How long it takes for your blood to clot
• Your blood has low levels of any of the clotting factors
• Whether one of the clotting factors is completely missing from your blood

Treatment or cure:

· The main treatment for hemophilia is called replacement therapy. Concentrates of VIII are slowly dripped in or injected into a vein. This helps replace the clotting factor that's missing or low.

Current Research:

· A new combination in VIII

Foundation: Hemophilia of Georgia-www.hog.org

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVHbMuBK8CI&feature=related

Questions:

1. How does a person get Hemophilia?
2. Is hemophilia lifelong or just temporary?
3. Does Hemophilia only affect men?
4. How is hemophilia inherited?
5. What is the treatment for hemophilia?

Cites: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Diseases/hemophilia/hemophilia_causes.html

http://www.cigna.com/healthinfo/nord39.html

http://www.hemophilia-information.com/hemophilia-foundations.html

http://www.hemophilia-information.com/history-of-hemophilia.html

Blog #6

3 scientific facts that i learned from the movie

• magnesium is flammable
• Muscovites are very thin rocks
• Nohting but heat and magma at the center of the earth

3 untrue facts

• There are no such things as glow in the dark birds
• There's no world within the earth.
• Venus Fly traps can't eat people

Blog #5

1. My favorite topic that we learned about this year was Astronomy.


2. This topic talked about how the solar system (planets) were formed, constellation, and the planets.


3. This topic was cool because i like learning about the stars and planets and i had a chance to learn more about them this time because in middle school the astronomy class didn't talk much about the solar system.

Favorite Planet/Moon

My favorite planet is Jupiter because it is the fastest spinning planet in the solar system even though is massive. It takes Jupiter 10 hours to complete one full rotation on its axis. It's red spot has been around for 350 years and is measured 4o,ooo km across Jupiter but is shrinking as well. Scientist don't know when it will disappear. Jupiter also had 63 moons orbiting around it right now.

Big Bang

What do you think the universe looked like before the Big Bang? What made the universe "bang?"

Before the Big Bang happened there were no stars or sun so i think that the universe was nothing but darkness.

Blog #3-Extrasolar Planets

1. What are the four ways astronomers can detect extrasolar planets? Doppler Shift, Astrometric Measurement, Transit method, Gravitational Microlensing

2. Choose one of the four ways and explain it in detail. The Transit method can help scienctist detect when the stars reduce thier apparent magnitude.

3. In your answer to #2 you chose one way that astronomers detect extrasolar planets. Search the Internet to find how many extrasolar planets have been detected using this method. none just the brightness of the stars.

Is Pluto a Planet?

I think Pluto is a planet because when you look in a astronomy map of all the planets and stars you see all the planets including Pluto. Another reason why i think Pluto is a planet is because it was once a moon of Neptune and had drifted apart and was classified as an official planet in 1999. Also when you watch tv shows such as Sailor Moon, they show all the planets including Pluto.