Case Study: Part 1

You will be creating a case study in stages over four course topics. Use an example from your own personal practice, experience, or own personal/family (however, simulated cases are not acceptable for practice hours and therefore not acceptable for this assignment). Examples might include a patient with Duchesne’s muscular dystrophy. Huntington’s disease, Down’s syndrome, sickle-cell anemia, BRCA 1 or BRCA 2 mutations, or another genetic disorder that you or the organization in which you practice may specialize in treating.

General Requirements:

Use the following information to ensure successful completion of the assignment:

• Doctoral learners are required to use APA style for their writing assignments. 
• This assignment requires that at least three additional scholarly research sources related to this topic and at least one in-text citation for each source be included.
• You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite for similarity scores.

Directions:

For this assignment (Part 1 of the Case Study), write an assignment of (1,000-1,250 words) incorporating genetics information learned from assigned readings in Topics 1 and 2. Include the following:

1. Description of the disease, its prevalence, and its incidence.
2. Discussion of laboratory testing that is possible.
3. Guidelines and reasons behind the FDA regulations for introducing new pharmaceutical agents (policy).
4. The role that money and grants play in scientific advances; the economics of health care (capitalism).
5. The role and involvement family plays in the health care decision.

RESOURCES

Rosenbaum, P. (2017). The yin and yang of clinical research. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 59(12), 1208.

Hussain, S., Moiz, B., Aqeel, S., & Zaidi, N. (2017). Issues in reproductive health in females having inherited bleeding disorders in Pakistan. Haemophilia, 23(4), 367-370.

Also use resources from topic 1 of last week