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Papers on Health and Medicine
Abortion
Number of words: 1799 | Number of pages: 7.... created.
Only those who allow their emotional passion to overide their knowledge,
can deny it: only those who are irrational or ignorant of science, doubt that
when a human sperm fertilizes a human ovum a new human being is created. A new
human being who carries genes in its cells that make that human being uniquely
different from any and other human being and yet, undeniably a member, as we all
are, of the great human family. All the fetus needs to grow into a babe, a child,
an old man, is time, nutrition and a suitable environment. It is determined at
that very moment of conception whether the baby will be a boy or a girl; which .....
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Cholera: Virulence, Origin, And Pandemics
Number of words: 3002 | Number of pages: 11.... kill more hosts. If mortality rates are very low or not present at all, greater virulence can be expressed as causing more symptoms of illness. One such pathogen is Vibrio cholerae, which causes the disease known as cholera. The subject of this paper will focus on the V. cholerae pathogen and the significance of its presence on Earth. I will examine virulence patterns of various strains of V. cholerae, and what they are inclined to do.
Come (from) Hell or High (risk) Water?
Cholera’s origin is a topic that has been widely debated over the years. Some think that it dates back thousands of years to the first human ci .....
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Eating Disorders
Number of words: 854 | Number of pages: 4.... only a few bites of a meal. Dangerous signs of a person with anorexia are hair loss on the head, fainting spells, heart tremors, shortness of breath, constipation, compulsive exercising, intense fear of weight gain, cold hands and feet, dry and scaly skin, depression, a lack of sexual interest, anxiety, weakness, and exhaustion. Certain endocrine functions may also become impaired, causing menstruation and ovulation to stop. Treatment for anorexia consists of nutritional therapy, psychotherapy, and family counseling. Hospitalization is recommended for anorexic patients until they are nutritionally stable. Doctors want the pa .....
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Mandatory AIDS Testing
Number of words: 1987 | Number of pages: 8.... very effective, however, when
it is applied, it is not practical at all because one is dealing with human
nature, the odd nature of the virus itself, and also all of the stigmas that are
attached to AIDS. Therefore, not only will mandatory AIDS testing not prevent
HIV infection, it will indirectly increase HIV infection because of the adverse
effect it will have on voluntary testers. One of the major flaws of mandatory
AIDS testing is that "it provides people with a false sense of security."(Greig,
p68) When one goes for AIDS testing or more accurately an HIV antibody test
which is also know as the ELISA test (Kolodn .....
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Huntington's Disease
Number of words: 1074 | Number of pages: 4.... HD patients have significantly
higher mtDNA deletionlevels than agematched controls in the frontal and temporal
lobes of the cortex. To test the hypothesis, the amount of mtDNA deletion in 22
HD patients brains was examined by serial dilution-polymerase chain reaction
(PCR) and compared the results with mtDNA deletion levels in 25 aged matched
controls. Brain tissues from three cortical regions were taken during an autopsy
(from the 22 HD symptomatic HD patients): frontal lobe, temporal lobe and
occipital lobe, and putamen. Molecular analyses were performed on genetic DNA
isolated from 200 mg of frozen brain regions as descri .....
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The Black Plague
Number of words: 1113 | Number of pages: 5.... without doubt that God was responsible, judging human behavior and ready to punish the wicked. They concluded that this Black Plague was punishment from an angry God (Corzine 27-31).
had several different names. Bubonic Plague received its name because of the painful swellings it produced called buboes. The Black Death is another name which was given to the Plague because of the appearance of black blood beneath the skin. This disease became associated with the term "plague" because of the widespread fatalities that it caused throughout history (Platt 10-11).
The people of the fourteenth century were uneducated and suscept .....
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On Ockham's Razor And Gulf Ills
Number of words: 311 | Number of pages: 2.... warfare agents
Chemical warfare agents
Depleted uranium in shells, armor
Infectious diseases
Oil-well fires
Pesticides
Petroleum products
Stress
Pyridostigmine bromide as an antidote to poison gas
Vaccines
Several of these putative causes, such as oil-well fires, can be eliminated
if, as Katherine Leisure finds, some servicemen and women who suffer from
the syndrome were long gone from the Gulf before combat started and Iraq
fired the wells.
Per Ockham's Razor, we think infectious diseases is the simplest hypothesis
at the moment, and leishmaniasis the .....
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The Skeletal System
Number of words: 2456 | Number of pages: 9.... made up of number of bones fused together. The backbone is composed of 33 separate different size and shaped vertebrae, and each of them are composed of centrum (base portion), and neural arch (surrounds and protects spinal cord.) 12 pairs of flat bones make up the rib basket. Its function is to support the chest wall, and prevents it from collapsing, when the diaphragm contracts.
Appendicular Skeleton
Appendicular skeleton are made up of pelvic girdles (consists of 3 fused hipbones), pectoral girdles (consists of 2 collar bones - "clavicles"), and 2 scapulas (shoulder blades.)
The Joints:
There are 4 types of joints, the .....
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Leukemia
Number of words: 940 | Number of pages: 4.... to unstop bleeding, the risk of getting serious
infection in the wounds, and a very small possibility of obstruction of the
blood vessels.
Treatment of these Leukemias include chemotherapy with alkylafing agents,
or antimetabodies that suppress the growth of abnormal white cells. Another
treatment of some kind would be the x-ray or the administration or radioactive
substances, or radiophosphorus, may be used. After treatment these diseases may
last for many years. Age of the person diagnosed with Leukemia does play an
important part in how that individual responds to any treatment. The older the
person the less response he ma .....
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Breast Cancer Research
Number of words: 377 | Number of pages: 2.... is that many people don’t understand just how many cases of breast cancer there is each year. They neglect to give themselves self- examinations, which has been proven to be, when done correctly, the very first step in detecting breast lumps. If these examinations are done regularly a women can detect changes in breast tissue and detect any lumps that appear. She should also have regular mammograms after the age of 40 years old. Most doctors suggest a base-line mammogram at the age of 35. Mammography is 95% accurate and if can detect lumps that may go undetected by the self-examination. If cancer is detected ear .....
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