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The Human Immunodeficiency Virus And Mutations
Number of Words: 2069 / Number of Pages: 8
... is classified as a RNA
Retrovirus. A retrovirus uses RNA templates to produce DNA. For example,
within the core of HIV is a double molecule of ribonucleic acid, RNA.
When the virus invades a cell, this genetic material is replicated in the
form of DNA . But, in order to do so, HIV must first be able to produce a
particular enzyme that can construct a DNA molecule using an RNA template.
This enzyme, called RNA-directed DNA polymerase, is also referred to as
reverse transcriptase because it reverses the normal cellular process of
transcription. The DNA molecules produced by reverse transcription ar ...
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Health Care: Elderly
Number of Words: 1197 / Number of Pages: 5
... review, communication with physicians, and further assessment and intervention when deemed necessary. Lists of patients 65 and older were generated from the caseloads of primary care physicians from the three hospital sites. The questionnaires were mailed out with physicians cover letters and consent forms in the summer of 1993. In the questionnaire patients were asked to assess their self-percieved notions of there medical and psychosocial needs, as well as the level of their functioning. Upon reciept of the completed questionnaires the care coordinators from each hospital assess the results ...
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The Controversial Issue Of Doctor-Assisted Suicide
Number of Words: 808 / Number of Pages: 3
... of their lives. They would rather die with
dignity than live out the rest of their lives depandant on others. The
government thinks that they know what is best for the people. If everyone is
an individuall, how can the government know what is best for everyone. I feel
that people shold make up thir own minds about what is best for them. Joshua
Haney worote an article on assisted suicide. He says, "Everyday we make choices
that decide our fate and future. We choose where we work, what we eat and drink,
etc. This is just one more choice that we are making. I we take away this
right from peo ...
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Skin Cancer: The Dangers Of Wanting A Dark Tan
Number of Words: 486 / Number of Pages: 2
... the melanoma has spread to a nearby lymph basin or other tissue.
Stage IV:
This is the most serious, where the mutated cells have spread throughout distant parts of the body.
Countless reports have been done and released to the public on the dangers of too much exposure to the sun and skin cancer. This has almost been to no avail. I believe that in order to help teens realize the dangers, we need to target areas that they relate to most. An example of this is television, there are countless commercials warning people about the dangers of drinking and driving, unprotected sex, and drug-use. I ...
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Alcoholism
Number of Words: 989 / Number of Pages: 4
... and did things that most mother did not. For instance, as a child she
would leave me alone and sometimes physically abuse me. Therefore, I sometimes
had a hard time understanding why she treated me so differently. On the other
hand, I always received my explanations from my great-grandmother whom I called “
Mema”. I am not the only individual who considered her to be this type of
caring person. Everyone that had known her, thought she was remarkable.
Unfortunately, she started getting ill and during her times of need, I
took care of her. in this time frame I knew that she was going to le ...
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Cystic Fibrosis
Number of Words: 761 / Number of Pages: 3
... smelling bowel, growths in the nose (nasal polyps) and clubbed or enlarged fingertips and toe tips is another symptom. Now there are many tests that can be done to find out if a person has CF.
Doctors can now do genetic testing for CF, but about 10 years ago they couldn't. In 1989, the location where the of the defective gene on chromosome number 7 is was discovered by Francis S. Collins from University of Michigan. Tests can now be taken to see if an unborn child is infected with CF such tests are amniocentesis, chronic villus biopsy and a removal of cells from the embryo during invitro.
Furthermor ...
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Abortion
Number of Words: 621 / Number of Pages: 3
... techniques that are used today.
Examples are the Dilatation and Curettage (D&C) where a loop shaped steel knife
is inserted and the child is cut into pieces, also there is the Dilatation and
Evacuation (D&E) where the doctor uses forceps with sharp metal jaws and tears
the child apart, piece by piece. Usually the head is hardened to bone and must
be compressed or crushed in order to get it out. Another highly controversial
technique that is getting a lot of publicity nowadays is the partial birth
method. This procedure in performed in the second and third trimesters of
pregnancy or bet ...
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AIDS - Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Number of Words: 806 / Number of Pages: 3
... cost of treating a person with AIDS from infection to death is
approximately $119,000. Outpatient care, including medication, visits to doctors,
home health aids, and long-term care, accounted for approximately 32 percent of
the total cost. Persons exposed to HIV may have difficulty in obtaining adequate
health-insurance coverage. Yearly AZT expenses can average approximately $6,000,
although in 1989 the drug's maker did offer to distribute AZT freely to HIV-
infected children. The yearly expense for DDI is somewhat less at $2,000.
Therefore, if the AIDS epidemic is not controlled, its cost to ...
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Why I Believe In Voluntary Euthanasia
Number of Words: 1874 / Number of Pages: 7
... goods to the
government.) Attempted suicide is no longer a crime, although under health
laws a person can in most states be forcibly placed in a psychiatric
hospital for three days for evaluation.
But giving assistance in suicide remains a crime, except in the
Netherlands in recent times under certain conditions, and it has never been
a crime in Switzerland, Germany, Norway and Uruguay. The rest of the world
punishes assistance in suicide for both the mentally ill and the terminally
ill, although the state of Oregon recently (Nov. l994) passed by ballot
Measure 16 a limited physician-assisted s ...
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Sleep And Dreams
Number of Words: 673 / Number of Pages: 3
... our minds for various actions. When we are asleep, it is not as obvious how are minds are at work. To keep are minds active during sleep we must dream.
Many researchers suggest that dreams be formed by disturbances of the body. Not until that mid 19th century another philosopher as great as Aristotle come along. A man by the name of Sigmund Freud truly revolutionized the field of dreaming. Freud believed that the analysis of dreams was a very useful and powerful tool in uncovering unconscious thoughts and desires. Freud also believed that "the purpose of dreams is to allow us to satisfy in fantasies t ...
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