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Alcohol And Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Number of Words: 1700 / Number of Pages: 7
... the results of the use of teratogens, which are nongenetic
influences that can potentially complicate fetal development.(Harris, p.85)
FAS is due to the mother's consumption of alcohol during pregnancy.
Alcohol in the woman's bloodstream circulates to the fetus via the placenta.
There, the alcohol intrudes with the ability of the fetus to receive a
sufficient amount of oxygen and nourishment for normal development in the brain
and other body organs. The critical time for alcohol teratogenicity is around
the time of conception.
Effects of FAS/FAE
Although alcohol is the only cause of FAS, there a ...
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The Black Death
Number of Words: 504 / Number of Pages: 2
... considered unhealthy to take baths. The results of the plague were devastating. Heavily populated areas such as major cities were the hardest hit. By 1350 a third of Europe’s entire population, about 25 million people, was dead. People tried numerous methods to stop the spread of the plague. They used leeches, coals, herbs, fire, and . Many people believed the world was about to end and that god was punishing them. Jews often became scapegoats. There was widespread slaughter of the Jews and many Jewish communities perished.
The bubonic plague has several, very distinct symptoms. It begins ...
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Hospice
Number of Words: 1953 / Number of Pages: 8
... picture"
and treats a spectrum of patient needs equally. Special attention is given to:
Physical needs - this is the first and foremost function. Within hospice you
are dealing with a patient that has been given a diagnosis of having 6 months or
less to live. For many patients, relieving pain through medication is an
important part of hospice care. I have provided you with a list of ways that
patients are made more comfortable. A goal of hospice it to help patients use
their physical abilities as fully as possible.
Social Needs - Sometimes little things make all the difference to people.
Alt ...
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Alzheimer's Disease
Number of Words: 382 / Number of Pages: 2
... 1980's, AD came to be recognized as the most common cause of intellectual deterioration in the elderly and the middle-aged. Now it is also recognized as the major single cause of senility, or senile dementia.
Hardly a month goes by without the discovery of a new gene, protein, or chemical process that contributes to this devastating illness. AD, being the most common cause of cognitive decline or dementia in the US, affects 3 to 4 million older adults. 6 to 8% of the people over the age of 65 have dementia and about 1/3 of the people over the age of 85 have dementia symptoms.
Under a decade ...
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Beta Carotene
Number of Words: 716 / Number of Pages: 3
... Cancer Institute
endorsed a study which found that women who consume lots of beta-carotene rich
fruits and vegetables have a lower chance of getting cancer, including breast
cancer. The Institution says that regularly eating lots of fruits and
vegetables plays a key roll in cancer prevention, but whether the preventative
action comes from beta-carotene or other nutrients in the produce has yet to be
determined. For people who don't like eating their fruits and vegetables, a
beta-carotene supplement pill was introduced into the market. Millions of
vegetable hating Americans hoped that by takin ...
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Abortion
Number of Words: 475 / Number of Pages: 2
... in the process of saving the mother.6 About 83% of Americans
approve of abortion in cases of rape, or when the fetus is abnormal or
likely to suffer a disability later in life.7
Pro-life “supporters” oppose abortion because they believe a fetus
is a person from the moment of conception. A 22% minority of the United
States population oppose legal abortion according to a 1985 Newsweek poll.8
The anti-abortion groups include the National Right to Life Committee,
March for Life, and the Pro Life League.9 The Roman Catholic church and
fundamentalist Protestant churches oppose abortion.10 The ...
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Attention Deficit Disorder
Number of Words: 2283 / Number of Pages: 9
... symptoms include distractibility, impulsivity, and
restlessness(Hallowell). "A.D.D. is a breakdown of the filter systems of
the brain," according to Dr. Edward Hallowell, a world-renowned expert on
A.D.D. and author of several best-selling books on the subject. A.D.D. is
not an indicator of low intelligence, nor is it a learning disability. The
A.D.D. brain cannot filter the information coming in and cannot filter what
is going out. It is constantly bombarded with stimuli which can't be fully
processed--resulting in unpredictable responses.
When was A.D.D. first recognized as a neurological disor ...
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Multiple Personality Disorder
Number of Words: 962 / Number of Pages: 4
... at home, so it was easiest for me to start with. MPD was not a very common subject on the Internet. I couldn’t fine too much information on MPD, and I became very frustrated. Whenever I conducted a search on MPD, I would find DID instead. I wasn’t quite sure what DID was, but I had a feeling that it was some what related to MPD. My next step was to look into an encyclopedia.
I looked up MPD on Encarta. There were not any articles on MPD, but it said to look into DID. So, I did. When I looked up the article on DID, guess what I found? I found that they were the same thing. I also found out ...
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AIDS
Number of Words: 683 / Number of Pages: 3
... blood more thoroughly. Even though HIV (Human Immune deficiency Virus) can be transmitted through sharing of non sterilize needles and syringes, sexual intercourse, blood transfusion, and through most bodily fluids, it is not transmitted through casual contact or by biting or blood sucking insects.
Causes
HIV is primarily a sexually transmitted disease, it is transmitted by both homosexual and bisexual and heterosexual activity. The first recognized case was among homosexual and bisexual men. Many numbers of studies have shown that men who have sexual partners and those who practice receptive anal inte ...
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Antibiotic Resistance In Bacteria
Number of Words: 714 / Number of Pages: 3
... so the disease
is completely finished. If it is not, then this will just give the bacteria
some time to find a way to avoid the effects of the drug.
One antibiotic that will always have a long lasting effect in history is
penicillin. This was the first antibiotic ever to be discovered. Alexander
Fleming was the person responsible for the discovery in 1928. In his laboratory,
he noticed that in some of his bacteria colonies, that he was growing, were some
clear spots. He realized that something had killed the bacteria in these clear
spots, which ended up to be a fungus growth. He then discovered ...
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