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Chicken Pox
Number of Words: 346 / Number of Pages: 2
... become quite serious. If a pregnant woman contracts the disease during the first or second trimester there may be a congenital birth defect. If the disease is contracted within five days of birth the child risks being infected seriously with the disease and should be vaccinated immediately. The disease usually runs its course within two weeks, leaving the person infected healthy, as well as immune to any further infection from the same virus.
There is a vaccine for this disease called 'Varicella-zoster immune globulin', and a medicine called 'Acyclovir', a common viral medication, can be used t ...
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Euthanasia, Mercy Or Murder?
Number of Words: 1326 / Number of Pages: 5
... to die with dignity is unfair and cruel. It is worse to keep someone alive who doesn’t want to live and suffer from pain, rather than letting them have a peaceful and less painful death through euthanasia.
An true example of someone who deserves a peaceful and less painful death is Susan Hess. She suffers from multiple myeloma, a rare bone marrow cancer that destroys the blood, bones, immune system, and sometimes the liver and spleen. She believes that euthanasia should be legalized. She states, “the worst of it is the disintegration of the skeleton...Unless one is lucky enough to die of sepsis f ...
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Heart Cells
Number of Words: 429 / Number of Pages: 2
... restore healthy heart muscle. It is too soon, however, to know to what extent such treatments might repair damaged hearts, such as those suffering congenital heart disease.
Scientist and researchers at the University of Udine in Italy, studied hearts removed from 27 people who had received transplants. The researchers stained slices of heart tissue half a micrometer thick and used a confocal microscope to count the individual cell nuclei caught in the process of division. Judging from these samples, They found that a estimate of 131 to 152 myocytes in every million were dividing.
That proportion s ...
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Ebola
Number of Words: 1152 / Number of Pages: 5
... different species of
animals,bugs, and plant life. Bugs are also collected from the hospitals and
from the surrounding huts of the villages. So far 36,000specimens have been
collected. Once they have been gathered, the specimens are put into liquid
nitrogen and flown back to theUnited States, where they are studied at the
Centers for DiseaseControl in Atlanta Georgia and the Army Medical Research
Instituteof Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick Md.,(6). Researchers have
discovered the source of human infection for all level fourorganisms except
ebola(7). This means that all organisns that cause ...
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Insulin-Dependent Diabetes
Number of Words: 1786 / Number of Pages: 7
... is
a malfunction in the production of insulin. There are two main types
of diabetes: Type I or Insulin-Dependent and Type II or Noninsulin-
Dependent.
The insulin-dependent type of diabetes generally has onset during
childhood or adolescence, though it can occur at any age. Because
the pancreas supplies little or no insulin in this disease, daily
injections of the hormone and a controlled diet are necessary to
regulate blood sugar levels. Insulin is generally effective in
preventing glucose buildup, but it is a treatment and not a cure for
diabetes.
Th ...
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Psychoanalysis
Number of Words: 2215 / Number of Pages: 9
... refined Breuer's method by conceptualizing theories about it and, using these theories, telling his patients through interpretations what was going on inside the unconscious part of their minds, thus making the unconscious become conscious. Many hysterias were cured this way, and in 1895, Breuer and Freud published their findings and theories in Studies in Hysteria.
CLASSIC PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY
Traditional psychoanalytical theory states that all human beings are born with instinctual drives that are constantly active even though a person is usually not conscious of thus being driven. Two dri ...
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The Ebola Virus
Number of Words: 483 / Number of Pages: 2
... do. The CDC has classified the Ebola virus as
a Biosafety level 4, which means that the greatest safety precautions are
taken.
This Ebola cell is shaped as a long filamentous, and sometimes are
also found in "U" shaped. The virus consists of a coiled strand of RNA
contained in a envelope derived from the host cell membrane that is covered
with spikes.
The transmission of the Ebola virus occurs by direct contack with
bodily fluids of and ifected patient. The handling of chimpanzees that aer
either ill or have died from the virus can also transmit the virus.
The way the virus uses t ...
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Critical Incident Stress (CIS)
Number of Words: 875 / Number of Pages: 4
... 81)
An acute CIS reaction begins while the ESW is engaged with on scene operations. It is an incident that is often very disturbing for ESW's and may become physically ill as a result of the intense stress level associated with the event.(Bush Fire Services 92). Under particularly stressing circumstances some maybe unable to function properly at the scene or at a later date. This happens for example in the case of a death of a fellow worker in the line of duty and cannot return to his normal duties's. CIS at times can be so powerful as to cause mental and emotional breakdown in extreme case's ...
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Death Can Come Too Late: Active And Passive Euthanasia
Number of Words: 2561 / Number of Pages: 10
... in the more favorable light of "letting
one die". My question is this: how are the two morally different? Examine
the following case:
Perry L. was a nineteen-year-old who played in a local band, loved
the outdoors, and planned to become a doctor. One night in 1989 while
driving a skidoo he ran headlong into a tree. Perry no longer has any
cognitive abilities, he does not recognize anyone that he once knew, he
cannot communicate in any way, and he has no meaningful control over his
body or its functions. Perry will never recover any of his lost abilities
and he will never leave the hospit ...
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All You Need To Know About AIDS
Number of Words: 3033 / Number of Pages: 12
... a crisis of
STAGGERING 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 heteroosexual folks.
AIDS was first seen as a dise.ase 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 o ...
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