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People Vs. The Tobacco Industry
Number of Words: 1038 / Number of Pages: 4
... can relieve stress, help fit in, and even change the social status of men, women, and teens. A camel smoking a cigarette, wearing a leather jacket, with several beautiful ladies surrounding him portrays that smoking is for tough and outgoing ladies’ men. Models are used to illustrate that smoking will make women thinner and more glamorous. Slogans such as “You’ve come a long way, baby” interprets women’s entrance in the business world. Teens are especially being targeted because they make up 90% of all new smokers. Ads imply that smoking will make teens look mature. Companies such as Mar ...
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The Flu
Number of Words: 1887 / Number of Pages: 7
... we
learned some of the myths people generally believe about the flu and the
flu shot. During the course of our research we learned ways to educate the
public to eliminate those beliefs.
We have gathered seven resources with information pertaining to the
flu and the flu shot. Two articles came from journals of medicine called
The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and the American
Journal of Nursing (AJN). The last five sources we found on the Internet.
Using the search words "flu shot," we found the homepage for the Mayo
Clinic. The last four sources came from the Center ...
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Destroying Your Health By Smoking Cigarettes
Number of Words: 829 / Number of Pages: 4
... will destroy yourself quicker; that
is the goal we are seeking, is it not? Lets take out one of our friends (we will
call them that to be funny) and look at it. It is about five to six inches in
length, maybe a half inch wide with little brown things that look somewhat like
coffee grounds inside a thin white paper cylinder. Smell it, a significant
number of people actually enjoy the way tobacco products smell, but they will
not smoke them. I myself find that ominously odd.
Now smoking the cigarette is very important. If you do not smoke it you
will not reach your goal to destroy your health. So ...
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Sleeping Disorders
Number of Words: 1331 / Number of Pages: 5
... their life. Most cases only last one or two nights, but insomnia can
continue for weeks or possibly even months.
There have only been three standard types of insomnia that have been
identified by doctors. They are as follows:
- Transient insomnia is considered a few sleepless nights that is usually
brought on by stress, excitement, or environmental changes. A person could have
trouble sleeping the evening before a big meeting or shortly after a breakup or
a fight with his girlfriend. - Short-term insomnia is usually two or three
weeks of poor sleep caused by continual stress at work or a ...
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Alzheimer's: Genetic Dementia
Number of Words: 899 / Number of Pages: 4
... of
Alzheimer's disease, although those who possess APOE-e4 are not guaranteed
to develop the disease. APOE-e4 may simply be unable to efficiently repair
nerve cells. The presence of e4 does not signify if person will develop
Alzheimer's; instead, it signifies when he or she will get it. Recent
studies suggest that Alzheimer's may be affected by an interaction between
APOE and the newly discovered risk factor alpha-2-macrogobulin, A2M, a gene
mutation on chromosome 12. A2M is a protein that deactivates proteases,
enzymes that carve up other proteins. Alpha-2-macrogobulin's involvement
in Alzheimer ...
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Partial-Birth Abortion And Its Affect On The American People
Number of Words: 1336 / Number of Pages: 5
... she didn't think this
assignment would be a problem. She was wrong. This is what Nurse Shafer saw:
"I stood at the doctor's side and watched him perform a
partial-birth abortion on a woman who was six months
pregnant. The baby's heartbeat was clearly visible on the
ultrasound screen. The doctor delivered the baby's body and
arms, everything but his little head. The baby's body was
moving. His little fingers were clasping together. He was
kicking his feet. The doctor took a pair of scissors and
inserted them into the back of th ...
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Antibiotics
Number of Words: 1003 / Number of Pages: 4
... penicillin from the mold.
This was the start of developing new drugs to treat diseases and bacteria.
Over the years, numerous thousands of antibiotic material have been
found in nature as well as produced chemically but, there are few that are safe
and useful. However the ones that are safe and effective have saved many lives
and have helped extend life expectancy.
Right now, there is more than 70 different kinds of antibiotics in use.
Most antibiotics are used to treat infections, some for fungi and protozoa, but
antibiotics are not usually effective against viruses. So they have developed
other ...
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The Ebola Virus
Number of Words: 1588 / Number of Pages: 6
... These filoviruses cause
hemorrhagic fever, which is actually what kill victims of the Ebola virus.
Hemorrhagic fever as defined in Mosby's Medical, Nursing, and Allied Health
Dictionary as, a group of viral aerosol infections, characterized by fever,
chills, headache, malaise, and respiratory or GI symptoms, followed by
capillary hemorrhages, and, in severe infection, oliguria, kidney failure,
hypotension, and, possibly, death. The incubation period for Ebola
Hemorrhagic Fever ranges from 2-21 days (JAMA 273: 1748). The blood fails
to clot and patients may bleed from injections sites and into th ...
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Depression
Number of Words: 2627 / Number of Pages: 10
... what really is because it has become such a sweeping term, being used to describe everything from deep grief to daily frustrations. But to start with the most rigorous definition, Western psychiatry has a fairly standardized way of diagnosing . Coming from the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders of the American Psychiatric Association", the following are the nine most common symptoms:
- extended, unexplained sadness
- loss of pleasure in formerly enjoyed activities
- sleeping problems
- significant weight loss or gain
- feeling extreme restlessness or slowed down
- loss ...
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The Cystic Fibrosis Gene
Number of Words: 2159 / Number of Pages: 8
... this classical approach proved to be impractical when searching
for the CF gene. To find the gene responsible for CF, the principle of
"reverse genetics" was applied. Scientists accomplished this by linking the
disease to a specific chromosome. After this linkage, they isolated the
gene of interest on the chromosome and then tested its product.
Before the disease could be linked to a specific chromosome, a
marker needed to be found that would always travel with the disease. This
marker is known as a Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism or RFLP for
short. RFLP's are varying base ...
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