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Albinism
Number of Words: 515 / Number of Pages: 2
... with vision. Those with ty-positive albinism
have very slight pigmentation, and generally less severe visual difficulties.
Tests were done on the hair roots of individuals with albinism, to tell these
types of albinism apart. However, these hair tests cannot identify types of
albinism, particularly in young children, whose pigment systems are immature.
Therefore hair tests are not helpful in predicting the extent of visual
disability of a child.
"Ty-Neg" (also called Type 1A) albinism results from a genetic defect in
an enzyme called tyrosinase. Tyrosinase helps the body to change the amino acid
tyro ...
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The Functions And Disorders Of The Liver
Number of Words: 702 / Number of Pages: 3
... red blood cells in circulation by breaking down and absorbing
the cells. As a filter the liver absorbs harmful chemicals and even some
poisons and breaking them down into less harmful materials. The liver then
allows the substance to pass out of the body.
The substance left after the blood cells have been broken down, any
unusable nutrients have been broken down, and chemicals that are to be
passed are ready these substances are combined and made into bile. Bile is
the common substance that the liver produces to aid in the digestion of
fatty foods. Bile is what gives stool its brown color ...
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Diabetes Type I
Number of Words: 1524 / Number of Pages: 6
... need to know about insulin.
Insulin is a hormone. The role of insulin is to convert the food we eat
into various useful substances, discarding everything that is wasteful.
It is the job of insulin to see that the useful substances are put to best
use for our well-being. The useful substances are used for building cells,
are made ready for immediate expenditure as energy and also stored for
later energy expenditure.
The cause of diabetes is an absolute or lack of the hormone insulin. As a
result of this lack of insulin the processes that involve converting the
foods we eat into various useful su ...
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Cystic Fibrosis Of The Pancreas
Number of Words: 410 / Number of Pages: 2
... may vary from one family to the next. The 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 wh ...
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Chinese Medicine
Number of Words: 1470 / Number of Pages: 6
... the two.(3)
One (Western) method of gaining knowledge is analysis. It is the method
of breaking things into component parts to understand the whole. This method
has been applied in China, but not to the same level as in the West. Analysis
is one of the important features of all western modern science and technology.
In fact, the analytical approach is the basis of western medicine, and it is
part of the Western mindset.(4)
Analysis is not as important to Chinese medicine as in the West. The
ancient Chinese did use analysis in their investigation of the human body, but
t ...
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Anti-Social Personality Disorder
Number of Words: 2523 / Number of Pages: 10
... behavior problems that start as a child have links to heredity, a family with a pre-disposition to perform crimes, alcoholic parents that do crimes, irresponsible behavior that persists and parents that do not discipline. The child that will eventually be a sociopath exhibits certain feeling inside that they are inadequate, shamed and because of that they are teased and made fun of. The child characteristics of a future sociopath consist of being incapable of following the rules. The youngster will skip school, bully, steal! , torment animals, run away from home and the child is likely to develop At ...
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Things That Affect And Influence Our Health And Our Lives
Number of Words: 2425 / Number of Pages: 9
... effected me. I began changing my diet to a low-carbohydrate, and high-protein diet, thus enabling my body to stop burning the energy from the high-carbohydrate foods I eat to the fat cells in my body. Also, instead of snacking on ice cream or candy, I ate much more vegetables and healthier fruits such as bananas, apples, and oranges. As I began changing my dietary habits, I began seeing a change in my in my physical self as well. After maintain the diet I no longer crave any food and I am eating healthier meals and being satisfied with them. It really made a difference in my life. I also made ...
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Crohn's Disease
Number of Words: 345 / Number of Pages: 2
... Diarrhea is one of the most common symptoms of .
can also be referred to as IBD, which stands for Inflammatory Bowel Disease. It can also be referred to as Ulcerative Colitis, or simply colitis, enteritis, ileitis or proctitis.
This disease is not very threatening, but can cause someone to have surgery, which sometimes can be life threatening. This disease affects the bowel causing it to narrow. Sometimes, obstruction can be acutely caused by the ingestion of poorly digestible fruit or vegetables that can act as a cork and plug the already narrowed segment of the intestine.
In doing this re ...
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Herpes-Simplex: Type 2
Number of Words: 483 / Number of Pages: 2
... cause
of genital herpes. Herpes infections of the genital area have become
increasingly common, going along with a rise in general of many sexually
transmitted diseases. Sometimes accompanied by headache and fever, the condition
usually begins with a mild itching, followed by the development of clusters of
blisters that break and crust to form scabs that eventually dry up. The process
may last one to three weeks. In many cases new clusters of blisters appear as
others heal. When a baby is born to a woman who has active genital herpes
lesions, the infant is at high risk of contracting an infection ...
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Performance Enhancing Drugs
Number of Words: 661 / Number of Pages: 3
... of bodily functions, dehydration, and many more. Plus, these drugs are illegal in sports. Many are available only through a doctor’s prescription for certain diseases.
The sport that sees the highest rate of competitors using is bodybuilding. Many of these athletes were skinny and not very popular during their high school years. They use the steroids to bulk up and create a shield against the criticism. Due to this fact of psychological instability and the effect of the steroids, a violent person is created from a once calm person. This has been illustrated in the many murders involving bodybui ...
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