.... of white blood cells), excessive or repetitive bleeding, easy bruising, and also enlargement of the liver, spleen and lymph nodes (997). This disease has been known to cause about "10% of all cancer deaths, about 50% of all cancer deaths in children and adults less than 30 years old, and at least 4 million people now living are expected to die from these forms of cancer (Reagan 1)." Over half of every type of leukemia occurs in people over the age of 60. Even though so many people have been getting different types of leukemia, the causes are not totally known. There is evidence that exposure to radiation can reduce the d .....

.... be explained by the ability of the gene to expand from generation to generation. Amplification is frequently observed after parent-to-child transmission, but extreme amplifications are not transmitted through the male line. This explains anticipation and the occurrence of the severe congenital form almost exclusively in the offspring of affected women. Congenital Myotonic Dystrophy Congenital myotonic dystrophy is the early childhood form of myotonic dystrophy (also known as Steinert's disease). Usually in myotonic dystrophy the symptoms begin to show in childhood or later in life, but symptoms of congenital myotonic dystrophy .....

.... of tension. The choice of a substitute depends on what will achieve the same effects without having any appreciable risk. Once a smoker understands his own smoking behavior, he will be able to cope more successfully and select the best quitting approaches for himself and the type of life- style he leads. Because smoking is a form of addiction, 80 percent of smoker who quit usually experience some withdrawal symptoms. These may include headache, light-headedness, nausea, diarrhea, and chest pains. Psychological symptoms, such as anxiety, short-term depression, and inability to concentrate, may also appear. The main psycho .....

.... deep crease across the center of the palm, hyperflexibility, fifth finger has only one flexion furrow instead of two, extra space between the big toe and the second toe, or enlarged tongue As many as 50 percent of the children with are also born with heart defects. Some of these defects are major, and the child will experience heart failure shortly after birth. However, not all heart defects are immediately apparent. For this reason, all infants with should have an echocardiogram within the first few months of life to check for heart problems. People with also have more endocrine problems than the general population. About 1 .....

.... are the viruses responsible for causing viral hemorrhagic fevers. All forms of virus of viral hemorrhagic fever begin with fever and muscle aches. These diseases usually progress until the patient becomes very ill with respiratory problems, severe bleeding, kidney malfunctions, and shock. The conclusions of the viral hemorrhagic fever can range from a mild illness to death (www.cdc.gov/nci..brochures/ebolainf.html, 1995). Ebola viruses are spread though close personal contact with a person who is very ill with the disease. Usually the wide spread action of the virus takes place among hospital care workers or family members who we .....

.... host into a virus. You are dead before you have even started to show signs of this virus. It is believed that it is some sort of mutated form of AIDS because it started in the original spot as AIDS did, Kinshasa and moved along the highway ripping its way through Northern Africa. As of now there are an estimated 150 000 people who have died from this virus. This figure is in Africa alone. In October 1989, monkeys were dying by the hundreds in a building 2 miles away from the White House. They were diagnosed as dying from Ebola. Except that this strain of Ebola was not harmful to humans. It only killed monkeys. If a virus can chan .....

.... behavior. A.D.D. is a genetic disease, and in the case of A..D..D. If a child has it there is a more than good chance the parent has it as well. Fifty percent of parents that have kids with A.D.D. have A.D.D. as well. There are many different symptoms and effects of A..D..D. such as Bad organization this is due to being very anxious because of the disease, they seem to not know where to begin something and often get frustrated. There are lots more signs of A..D..D. that one would normally have as a child such as not being able to pay close attention, making careless mistakes on what your doing, Difficulty with attention, not .....

.... appearance is of extreme importance are more likely to develop an eating disorder. In the Western world, over the past two decades eating disorders have increased substantially. People believe that this increase in eating disorders is due to the fashion industry. The fashionable female figure of today has become thinner and more tubular (Szmulker, McCance, McCrone, & Hunter, 1986). In the world today, Apter believes that thinness is more and more a symbol of the feminine ideal. He finds that the Western role of a woman is now beginning to include success in the work force, sexually attractive as well as the traditional .....

.... a case of amputation instruments dating from about 1800. Within medicine the most crucial component, besides the professional Doctors, Nurses and Pharmacologists are the drugs that make it possible for millions of humans everyday to overpower their ailments. Within the field of Medicine, Pharmacology is the study and methodology behind the actions of drugs and their reactions in the human body. Many early treatments didn't actually heal the patient, but just gave him a slight euphoria from the pain. (Pg 1) In today's culture, the medicines o .....

.... whole can change, sometimes even resulting in the formation of a new species. Humans have survived for thousands of years and will most like survive thousands of more. Throughout the history of the Huminoid species man has evolved from Homo Erectus to what we today call Homo Sapiens, or what we know today as modern man.. The topic of this paper is what does the future have in store for the evolution of Homo Sapiens. Of course, human beings will continue to change culturally; therefore cultural evolution will always continue; but what of physiological evolution? The cultural evolution of man will continue as long as man can think; .....