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What Is Angina? And What Is The Cure?
Number of Words: 824 / Number of Pages: 3
... supplying the heart
muscle itself, i.e., the coronary arteries.
Like any other organ, the heart requires a steady flow of oxygen and nutrients
to provide energy for rmovement, and to maintain the delicate balance of
chemicals which allow for the careful electrical rhythm control of the heart
beat. Unlike some other organs, the heart can survive only a matter of minutes
without these nutrients, and the rest of the body can survive only minutes
without the heart--thus the critical nature of these syndromes.
Causes of blockage range from congenital tissue strands within or over the
arteries to ...
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Asbestos: Helpful Aspects Vs. Harmful Effects
Number of Words: 1592 / Number of Pages: 6
... and Tremolite” (8). OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health
Administration) has categorized asbestos work into four different classes
depending on the amount of exposure to asbestos during a specific
employment. The categories consist of classes I, II, III, and IV, with
Class I work having the greatest amount of exposure to asbestos and Class
IV work having the least amount of exposure to asbestos. However, two of
the most common health effects of exposure to asbestos are caused by the
formation of asbestosis and various forms of cancer. Asbestosis is a non-
cancerous disease whereby “scar tissue ...
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Bipolar Disorder
Number of Words: 442 / Number of Pages: 2
... when depressed might try to treat it them self by using drugs and alcohol which just makes it worst and even makes them more depressed. Such as if someone is going though a bad phase then they try to treat it with cocaine. All that’s going to do is make it worst, when they fiend for and it don’t have any money or anything to get it and that’s on top of there depressed phase they not going to feel so good in there mind.
People with can experience suicidal thoughts during bad phases sometimes emotional disturbances can even make matters worst. Suicidal behaviors can occur to a ed people as a respo ...
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AIDS And You
Number of Words: 3405 / Number of Pages: 13
... proportions
in parts of Africa. In Zaire, it is estimated that over twenty percent of
the adults currently carry the virus. That figure is increasing. And what
occurred there will, if no cure is found, most likely occur here among
heterosexual folks.
AIDS was first seen as a disease of gay males in this country. This was
a result of the fact that gay males in this culture in the days before AIDS
had an average of 200 to 400 new sexual contacts per year. This figure was
much higher than common practice among heterosexual (straight) men or women.
In addition, it ...
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Are Cosmetic Surgeries Worth It?
Number of Words: 541 / Number of Pages: 2
... individual to decide what they want to do with their body. Yet, does it really help to have your skin pulled up to your cheeks so you can’t smile?
Cosmetic surgeries carry a high degree of risk, sometimes can cost one’s life. According to the New England Journal of Medicine, five patients did not survive undergoing liposuctions. Although the doctors could not say for sure that liposuctions caused the deaths, they strongly suspected the procedure contributed to them. There are more women who have come forward with complaints of medical malpractice and abuse. One woman’s story was published i ...
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Beauty
Number of Words: 860 / Number of Pages: 4
... and women with better symmetry
had started having sex 3-4 years before the people with average symmetry.
Gangestead and Thornhill also completed another survey involving women's
responses to symmetrical men and men with average symmetry. The results were as
expected. The women with symmetrical partners responded twice as much compared
to the women with men having average symmetry. The rate of contraception was
also much higher. Animals are much more severe in their choosing. Female
penguins won't accept males who aren't plump and symmetrical, and female
scorpion flies only accept males with symmetrica ...
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Ritalin And Its Uses
Number of Words: 1468 / Number of Pages: 6
... system
and cortex, and, like cocaine, works on the neurotransmitter dopamine. It
appears to increase the levels of dopamine in the frontal lobe where attention
and impulsive actions are regulated. When taken in its intended form under a
doctor's prescritption, it has moderate stimulant properties. There has been a
great deal of concern about it's addictive qualities and adverse affects.
ADHD is a relatively new disorder. It was introduced in 1980, where it
was labeled ADD(attention deficit disorder). In the 1950's, children were
simply labeled "hyperkinetic." The term "hyperactivity" was add ...
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Restraints On Alzheimer Patients
Number of Words: 1132 / Number of Pages: 5
... the mid-90s, I was a new graduate nurse; I had minimal experience dealing in the clinical setting with confused patients and the use of restraints. However, I have had theory on the subject "restraints", and was familiar with the types of restraints, such as; physical, chemical, manual and mechanical, but I was unfamiliar with the proper use of these devices. I decided to educate myself further on this issue and was amazed that my nursing textbooks contained little information regarding the use of restraints and the treatment of patients in confusional states. Also, I could find no exact treatment pro ...
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Amico Acids - The Building Blocks Of Life
Number of Words: 752 / Number of Pages: 3
... block
necessary for life. And that you had this inorganic matter somehow become
living matter. Dr Herald Bloom points out, he says, "The problem is how do
we know, that if there arose a peptide, a combination of amino acids, that
the second peptide would not arise 5 thousand years later 10 thousand miles
away. How would it come together with hundreds of combinations even to
form the simplest protein molecule." He says, In fact if you take the
simplest protein molecule and a combination of 50 amino acids, he says that
the probability of that arising by chance is 6 x 10 to the 58'th power.
Which is s ...
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Managing People With AIDS
Number of Words: 2934 / Number of Pages: 11
... HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) is the retrovirus that causes AIDS, or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. While AIDS itself does not kill a person, the disease weakens the person’s immune system, allowing other diseases like Kaposi’s sarcoma invade the body. These opportunistic diseases eventually overwhelm the person’s body. The virus is found in blood and other body products like saliva, sweat, and tears, and can only be transmitted by the exchange of blood, body products, or by sexual contact. Once the HIV virus is exposed to air, it dies instantaneously. This means that someone cannot spread ...
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