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Papers on Health and Medicine
The Ebola Virus: One Deadly Disease
Number of words: 859 | Number of pages: 4.... from the Philippines. The one hundred and forty-nine workers that had worked with the monkeys were not effected by the virus at all, although two have developed antibodies from the Ebola Reston. Many other countries have been affected with this deadly disease and are spreading rapidly.
Like many things, the Ebola Virus is a member of a family. It comes from RNA viruses know as filoviruses. Marburg virus and four Ebola viruses: Ebola Zaire, Sudan, Reston and Tai are the five different viruses that have been known to cause disease in humans, while Ebola Reston only causes disease within monkeys. Filoviruses, arenaviruses, flavi .....
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How Moods Are Affected By The Sun
Number of words: 705 | Number of pages: 3.... Cook wrote in his journal on May
16, 1898, "Around our tables . . . . men are sitting about sad and dejected
lost in dreams of melancholy. For brief moments some try to break the spell by
jokes, told perhaps for the 50th time. Others grind out a cheerful philosophy;
but all efforts to infuse bright hopes fail."2 Some believe that light affects
the body's ability to make serotonin, a neurotransmitter that helps induce
feelings of calm and well being. The eye's sensitivity may also play a part in
sun/mood relations. A study was done to a group of people in the winter and
summer. In the winter the many individuals experienced .....
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Why IQ Tests Don't Test Intelligence
Number of words: 726 | Number of pages: 3.... the worst case, do they
have an illness that day? To test a person's mind, it is necessary to
utilize their body in the process. If everyone's body is placed in
different conditions during the testing, how is it expected to get
standardized results across all the subjects? Because of this assumption
that everyone will perform equally independent of their environment,
intelligence test scores are skewed and cannot be viewed as standardized,
and definitely not as an example of a person's intelligence.
It is obvious that a person's intelligence stems from a variety of
traits. A few of these that are often tested are reading comp .....
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The Issue Of HIV And AIDS
Number of words: 614 | Number of pages: 3.... of? Since these are adults being familiarized with HIV/AIDS, how to contract it, the consequences, and the raw statistics, they will probably disregard all of the information. Education on the issue of HIV/AIDS obviously needs to begin at an earlier age.
Since this is such a controversial issue, the age at which education should begin is debatable. The children need to be mature enough to handle the concerns and they need to be young enough to begin practicing measures of safety that will continue throughout their lives. But, when it comes down to it, education of HIV/AIDS should begin when these children are able to u .....
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Florida Should Legalize Euthanasia
Number of words: 629 | Number of pages: 3.... of death.
Next, not all family life is harmonious, and underlying
pathology can often be exacerbated by the stresses of a family member's terminal
illness bring says an article in Law Medicine & Health Care of 1992. If
euthanasia is legalized the family members of a patient could sleep peacefully
knowing that they have been "mercied" and died easily and with little pain
instead of being kept alive by a machine or dying slowly and painfully from an
incurable disease.
Finally, let me tell you a true story from Vess Fast Access TO
Information On Euthanasia, about a 31-year old mother named Sue R .....
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Spinal Fluid May Help Alzheimer's Diagnosis
Number of words: 276 | Number of pages: 2.... that were from people with Alzheimer's or an other
related condition from the 19 samples from people who didn't have
Alzheimer's. Most Alzheimer's patients are determined to have Alzheimer's
by symptoms, psychological testing, and medical testing to prove its not
another disease that is causing the person to appear to be having
Alzheimer's.
Scientists and other Alzheimer's experts felt it was too soon to
see how useful this test might be for doctors. Doctors diagnosis's are
usually 80 to 90% accurate.
Alzheimer's patients show an extensive amount of amyloid beta-
protein. The test is to detect amyloid beta-protein in the .....
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Necrotizing Fasciitis/Myosits (Flesh Eating Disease)
Number of words: 565 | Number of pages: 3.... 1783. The disease
occurred throughout the 1800's and 1900's, but was usually only found in
military hospitals in times of war. Some outbreaks have occurred also in
civilian populations. There seemed to be some decrease in the 1940's, and
then another outbreak in the 1980's.
Ontario is the only province in Canada where there is statistics on
serious group a streptococcal infections (including necrotizing fasciitis).
These cases are reported to health authorities. Surveillance for group
A streptococcus began in 1991 in Canada. In Ontario, in 1994, 19 cases of
serious disease were reported to health authorities. Of thos .....
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Syphilis
Number of words: 967 | Number of pages: 4.... and begin to spread if untreated.
In the secondary stage, occurring about six weeks later, a generalized rash appears. It can last for weeks or months, perhaps up to a year. Painless ulcers develop in the mouth. Most people discover raised areas around the genitals or anus. The bacteria can be easily spread through mucous patches on the raised areas, which are called condylomalata. Flu-like symptoms start to occur, and can come and go for years. These symptoms may include a rash (over entire body or just on palms of hands and soles of feet), a sore in the mouth, swollen and painful joints, aching bones, and a mild fever or headach .....
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Human Subconcious
Number of words: 1279 | Number of pages: 5.... we read (Sphere & The Left Hand of Darkness)
and a movie we saw (Enemy Mine) trying to see what kind of ideas each story
shows about human nature.
In a first place, Sphere tries to emphasize the idea that most of us tend
to ignore our subconscious. We all had a fear, an idea or a dream that we
don't want to talk about. Sometimes it could be strange thoughts that we
had or something similar. We don't want to talk about them because they
shock us and they make us feel uncomfortable. Often we don't even realize
when these thoughts happen because it all happens in our subconscious. The
subconscious is the part of our mind that hold .....
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