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Huntington's Disease
Number of Words: 772 / Number of Pages: 3
... very little literature was available pertaining to , but recently all that has changed. In 1993 the gene that causes HD was discovered and from that great progress has been made. While no cure yet exists, there is a large push in research to develop one. In most cases Huntington's patients can maintain independence for several years after the onset of symptoms. Several treatments are now available or being tested for effectiveness, and the Huntington's patient has several options open to him/her.
The initial motor symptoms of Huntington disease usually remain unnoticed by the afflicted person, but ...
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Anthrax: Chemical Warfare
Number of Words: 455 / Number of Pages: 2
... Anthrax spores can be placed in a artillery shell that could explode and spray the bacteria over a wide area. Engineers also reportedly built small unmanned planes that could deliver anthrax to neighboring countries, flying low and undetected. Similar unmanned aircraft can be used as a inexpensive biological warfare arsenal.
"If you delivered anthrax against Jerusalem or Tel Aviv, you could be looking at thousands of casualties, maybe even ten thousands," said Dr. Kathleen Bailey, senior fellow at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. (Seattletimes.com: Anthrax: a poor mans nu ...
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Obstetrician Vs. Midwife
Number of Words: 1442 / Number of Pages: 6
... obstetrician fears a birth may go wrong. The midwife expects the birth will go right.
"Midwife" is a word that comes from the old English words mit wif, literally "with woman." A midwife is a person who is "with woman," especially during the period of pregnancy, birth, and caring for the newborn. Some people also use the word midwife as a verb, meaning to help give birth, as in "She 'midwifed' the project." The things that midwives do is called "midwifery" (pronounced mid-whiff-err-ee).
There are many types of midwives throughout the world. The World Health Organization recognizes the importance of ...
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Nutrition In Mountain Biking
Number of Words: 1394 / Number of Pages: 6
... 2. Sugar
coated are not bad either 3. Most cereals contain less than 2 grams of fat per
serving
When riding a bicycle, your muscles produce 30-100 times more heat than
when your body is at rest. The body puts out this inferno by increasing the
sweat rates. In the summer you can lose over two liters of fluid per hour on a
really hot day, dehydration and saddle soars are the leading reasons cyclists
drop out of races. The body loses this much fluid mostly from an increase in
sweat rates. Water does not supply calories, minerals, or vitamins, but it is
mandatory almost for every body functi ...
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Teenage Suicide
Number of Words: 1015 / Number of Pages: 4
... sexual, social abuse or neglect can lead to
self-murder("Teen Suicide," 3). Significant changes, losses, and abuse can
promote suicidal tendencies.
Few suicidal people have some type of depression, yet those who have one
can be provoked to commit suicide. There are two main types of depression
suffered by suicidal people("Suicide," {Grolier}). The first type is reactive
depression. This type of depression is the reaction of a difficult and often
traumatic experience. Endogenous depression is the second type of depression.
It is the result of a mental illness which is diagnosable by a professi ...
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The Ebola Virus
Number of Words: 452 / Number of Pages: 2
... reality, the virus has attempted to turn its 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 ...
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Addiction: Its Causes And Effects
Number of Words: 1228 / Number of Pages: 5
... were sent ad dictum. This idea of enslavement is mirrored by the
addict's need to maintain the addiction (. Before we can understand why
addiction is the number one social and health problem in the United States,
a definition of addiction needs to be established (Experience 12). It is
important to remember no one thing can explain addiction. Factors include
personalities, culture, environments, substances and behaviors (Rodgers 5).
The definition of addiction varies depending on who is being asked. A
sociologist may say addiction is caused by poverty, while psychologists
will say personality ...
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Asthma
Number of Words: 701 / Number of Pages: 3
... as well at night, which leads to mucous retention, and that can increase the obstruction to air flow. Furthermore, at night our bodies produce smaller amounts of certain chemical that help to decrease airway spasms and keep airway tubes open. All of these factors add up to a greater chance of symptoms worsening at night.
An asthma attack begins when the smooth muscles in the walls of the bronchial tubes start to tighten and narrow when they are exposed to a trigger when this bronchospasm occurs, air can’t flow into or out of the lungs. To make matters worse, mucous enters the narrowed bronchial tu ...
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Healing Health Care
Number of Words: 825 / Number of Pages: 3
... national health-care system, in order to insure that everyone,
not just the wealthy, can enjoy good health. As it stands, America is the only
civilized country where access to basic health care depends on where one works
and how much one is paid. For many well insured people there is debate about our
nation¹s stance on the separation between the individual and the state, but the
fact of the mater is that if our friend Grant had been born five hundred miles
to the North he would still have his teeth and a much brighter future.
In Canada, where they have had a national health insurance since 1967, a
cit ...
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A Report On The Fundamentals Of Dyslexia
Number of Words: 619 / Number of Pages: 3
... is not to be blamed on the parent for negligence in teaching reading and writing. Dyslexia is not any ones fault it simply occurs when the barrier in the language center of you brain cracks. In some experiments done by the University of Montreal, they are comparing good adult readers to dyslexic adult readers. In most cases the adult dyslexics were at about the high school level. When the adult dyslexics were compared to third graders in matching sounds with letters, they scored below the eight and nine year olds that were tested. It's not just a visual problem, actually they can see the lette ...
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