.... and clubbed or enlarged fingertips and toe tips is another symptom. Now there are many tests that can be done to find out if a person has CF. Doctors can now do genetic testing for CF, but about 10 years ago they couldn't. In 1989, the location where the of the defective gene on chromosome number 7 is was discovered by Francis S. Collins from University of Michigan. Tests can now be taken to see if an unborn child is infected with CF such tests are amniocentesis, chronic villus biopsy and a removal of cells from the embryo during invitro. Furthermore CF causes the sweat glands to release about 5 times as much salt as a normal p .....

.... American Revolution. In the 17th century, cultivating tobacco became the most important industry of the Virginia and Maryland colonies. Sometime later it became the major industry in North Carolina. “The first of the tobacco manufacturers to mass-produce cigarettes was Washington, Duke and Sons of Durham, North Carolina (Theodore, 77).” Tobacco is a highly addictive drug. This makes it very hard for heavy smokers to quit. Heavy smokers who do attempt to quit smoking will suffer many different painful withdrawal symptoms; some are psychological, such as moodiness and intense cravings. Others are physical such as gast .....

.... reflects an increased risk of heart disease. That is why LDL is often called "bad" . comes from two sources. It’s produced in your body, mostly in the liver (about 1,000 milligrams a day). And it’s found in foods that come from animals, such as meats, poultry, fish, seafood and dairy products. Foods from plants (fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts and seeds) do not contain For some people, exercise affects blood cholesterol level by increasing HDL level ("good" cholesterol). A higher HDL level is linked with decreased risk of heart disease. Exercise can also help control weight, diabetes, and high blood pressure. Exercise th .....

.... college for. Another thing that alcohol will do to me is it will subject me too memory loss. I think its common sense that after a night of drinking it is very hard to remember what you did or what you didn’t do. Alcohol also has the ability to take my money and make me poor. If I were to allow myself to be buying alcohol on a steady basis, it will become a great way for me to lose all my money as my life matures. As a college student I obviously need all the money I can get so I think a wise choice for me would be to stop drinking. There is really only one way I think that being involved with alcohol could help my life. .....

.... disease is relatively common to Caucasions, usually among Negroes, and very rare in Mongolians. In the United States, about 1 in every 2000 children is born with the disease, and 5% of the population are carriers. In the days before antibiotics, patients succumbed to bronchopheumonia or malnutrition, and the underlying cause was not recognized. Cystic fibrosis is now known to be one of the most chronic diseases of children in the United States. A diagnosis of cystic fibrosis should be suspected whenever a child has chronic or recurrent bronchitis or when malnutrition is present despite an adequate diet. The diagnosis may be c .....

.... to abortion. It is possible that the dilemmas of birth control and birth selection can extend to the problems of death selection and death control whether by the individual or society. However, the theories of ‘birth’ and ‘death’ are by far two very separate concepts. It is true that birth must occur for death to happen, yet the rationalizing behind each are very different. The physical and mental factors and circumstances involved with abortion are quite separate from the factors behind active euthanasia; thus one cannot in anyway be expected to share similar thoughts on both. Abortion essentially involves killi .....

.... baby's little fingers were clasping and unclasping, his feet were kicking. Then the doctor suck the scissors through the back of his head, and the baby's arms jerked out in a flinch, a startled reaction, like a baby does when he thinks that he might fall. The doctor opened up the scissors, stuck a high-powered suction tube into the opening and sucked the baby's brains out. Now the baby was completely limp." It was clear that the abortion camp needed to do some damage control. Since the media is the filter through which all information is disseminated to the public, they were quickly recruited in the effort. Planned Parenthood he .....

.... are now going to destroy her. These are facts which women who have the disease must face and the mental and psychological strain is unimaginable to those who are not affected. Article Research Article I As with mainly all diseases, there is not just one contributing factor to its existence. Breast Cancer has numerous causes and by studying these factors, we can see who is at high risk. In a life-time, a person will either be diagnosed with cancer or die from it. Women between the ages of 25-29 who have used oral contraceptives, or are taking the pill, are 16% more likely to develop Breast Cancer. Women in the Unite .....

.... change and its effect on the body mountaineers generally define altitude according to the scale of high (8,000 - 12,000 feet), very high (12,000 - 18,000 feet), and extremely high (18,000+ feet), (Hubble, 1995). A common misperception of the change in external environment with increased altitude is that there is decreased oxygen. This is not correct as the concentration of oxygen at sea level is about 21% and stays relatively unchanged until over 50,000 feet (Johnson, 1988). What is really happening is that the atmospheric pressure is decreasing and subsequently the amount of oxygen available in a single breath of air is .....

.... by the four pulmonary veins, which enter the left auricle. When this chamber contracts, blood is forced into the left ventricle and then by ventricular contraction into the aorta. The bicuspid, or mitral valve prevents the blood from flowing back into the auricle, and the semilunar valves at the beginning of the aorta stop it from flowing back into the ventricle. Similar valves are present in the pulmonary artery. The aorta divides into a number of main branches, which in turn divide into smaller ones until the entire body is supplied by an elaborately branching series of blood vessels. The smallest arteries divide into a fine .....