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Huntington's Disease
Number of Words: 733 / Number of Pages: 3
... on the short arm of
chromosome four in cytogenetic band 4p16.3. It was first identified in 1993.
While everyone posseses this gene, in someone suffering from Huntington's
disease, the number of repeats of a certain trinucleotide, cytozine-adenine-
guanine (CAG), is much larger than what it is in a normal person. In an average
person, the number of repeats is between 9 and 37. But is a sufferer of HD, the
repeat count is from 37 to 86. While nobody has found a direct correlation
between the number of repeats and the age when symptoms appear, there is
evidence that people with very high numbers of ...
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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Lou Gherig's Disease)
Number of Words: 445 / Number of Pages: 2
... of ALS include:
Tripping and falling
Loss of motor control in hands and arms
Difficulty speaking and swallowing or difficulty breathing
Persistent fatigue
Twitching and cramping, sometimes severely
As ALS progresses, all voluntary muscles become useless. The patient
cannot eat, breathe or communicate with others. Total life support may be the
only thing keeping them alive. ALS can lead to total paralysis.
Although there is no cure, medications such as siazepam can assist with
controlling spasms and muscle cramps and saliva. Siazepam can also help control
muscle twitching. Physi ...
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Social And Personal Effects Of Alcohol Consumption
Number of Words: 643 / Number of Pages: 3
... intestines into the blood stream and carried to various organ systems of the body, where it is metabolized. The kidneys pass small amounts of alcohol and through urine, and even smaller amounts processed through the lungs and breath, most alcohol is metabolized through the liver. The body metabolizes alcohol about the rate of one ounce of whisky per hour. Most people, however, drink faster then this, and so the concentration of alcohol in the blood keeps rising.
Moderate use of alcohol is not harmful, but excessive or heavy drinking is associated with alcoholism and numerous other health p ...
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Christian Science
Number of Words: 948 / Number of Pages: 4
... communion with God. Prayer is used to recognize “a
patient's direct access to God's love through the consistent operation of
God's law of health and wholeness on his behalf. It knows God, or divine
Mind, as the only healer. It brings the transforming action of Christ, the
idea of divine Love, to the patient's consciousness. A transformation or
spiritualization of a patient's thoughts changes his condition” (Science
and Health, p. 194:6).
Christian Scientists believe that sin, disease, and death does not
originate in God, who is eternal good. Death and disease are not ultimate
realities ...
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The Heart
Number of Words: 1535 / Number of Pages: 6
... of Muscle, Atriums, Ventricles, Systole and Diastole, Treatments for the
Heart, Valves, and many Diseases.
The Three Layers of Muscle
The heart has three layers of a muscular wall. A thin layer of tissue,
the pericardium covers the outside, and another layer, the endocardium, lines
the inside. The myocardium is the middle layer and is the biggest of all.
Myocardial Infarction is a disease later read about in this report. The
pericardium is a fibrous sac which is very smooth lining. In the space space
between the pericardium and epicardium is a small amount of fluid. This fluid
makes th ...
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From The Menstral Cycle To Birth
Number of Words: 478 / Number of Pages: 2
... shed. The outer layer of the egg mass(blastocyct) produces a hormone(HCG) to maintain the corpus luteum for the first 3 months of pregnancy so it can provide high levels of estrogen and progesterone. After the third month the placenta provides enough estrogen and progesterone to maintain the endometrium and also to inhibit further ovulation. Conception is when the egg and the sperm meet in the oviduct to form the zygote. If the egg or the sperm have any chromosome abnormalities the baby could be born abnormal. The zygote cell starts the divide and by the sixth day enters the uterus. If the embryo start ...
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Teenage Stress
Number of Words: 746 / Number of Pages: 3
... stress becomes excessive. It can become destructive and can turn into distress. Too much stress on your mind and body can make you feel miserable, worried, sad and ill. Contrary to popular belief, stress is not the pressure from the outside, such as divorce, death, burned supper, vacation that didn’t seem like one, and isolation. Those are simply the stressors, causes to the stress, but your response to those situations constitutes the actual stress.
Teenagers face a specific kind of stress. It could be problems at home, with parents, with siblings, an alcoholic parent, divorce, or it could b ...
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Bipolar Disorder
Number of Words: 1919 / Number of Pages: 7
... thinking, indecision, and recurrent thoughts of death and suicide (Hollandsworth, Jr. 1990 ). The manic episodes are characterized by elevated or irritable mood, increased energy, decreased need for sleep, poor judgment and insight, and often reckless or irresponsible behavior (Hollandsworth, Jr. 1990 ).
Bipolar affective disorder affects approximately one percent of the population (approximately three million people) in the United States. It is presented by both males and females. involves episodes of mania and depression. These episodes may alternate with profound depressions characterized b ...
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The Two Sides Dealing With Abortion
Number of Words: 1891 / Number of Pages: 7
... Some people may even be in between both of the sides. This is a very emotional topic and a lot of factors are involved in what people believe. Some factors that might influence whether a person are Pro-Life or Pro-Choice is the individuals up-bringing, personal experiences and religion.
I am one of the people who agree, to a certain extent, with both sides. I am mainly on the Pro-Choice point of view, but there are some types of abortion that I do not agree with. I believe people should have a right to choose what happens with their bodies, but I also believe people should be responsible for th ...
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Artificial Heart Devices
Number of Words: 1801 / Number of Pages: 7
... on society,
we must not narrow our thinking to include only the beneficial possibilities.
There exist moral, ethical, and economic factors that accompany these new
innovations to humanity. Who will receive these brilliant inventions?
Obviously not all of the patients will get transplants, so selection criteria
must be established. The high price of artificial heart devices and their
implantation will eliminate some candidates. Unfortunately, this is not fair.
The rich, in essence, can buy life, whereas the poor are abandoned to die in a
diseased state. A thorough analysis of the implications of ...
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