Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
.... were pregnant. Secondly many of the infants were found to by lying face down at the time of their death. Another important issue that has been further investigated is that SIDS may be the result of the combinations of many syndromes. Such as: gastroesophageal reflux mixed with respiratory disease. #3
One of the newest ideas that researchers have suggested may be the cause of SIDS is “Vertebral Artery Compression Resulting from Head Movement”. This concept suggests that the rotation and extension of .....
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AIDS: Is It A Modern Plague?
.... as bodily soreness, fever, bronchial complications, and even pneumonia. But while these conditions can be painful and frightening, we are usually confident that proper medication and rest will take care of the matter.
However there is a much more severe and indiscriminate tyrant, with enormous corrupting influence, capable of infiltrating all of civilization. Scientifically, it is a submicroscopic pathogen consisting of a particle of nucleic acid, enclosed in proteins, and able to replicate only within .....
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The Effects Of Teenage Alcoholism
.... in one day they will not be able to remember what they have learned.[ Coping with]
Alcohol also has other effects on the body. It can cause a person to loss their balance and make it very hard for them to stand up and walk. Alcoholism also effects a person’s reaction time and hand-eye coordination, which can often lead to serious accidents. High concentrations of alcohol can cause your breathing to slow and eventually stop. Alcohol slows a person synaptic transmission which slows breathing. This .....
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Essay On Human Sexual History
.... opinion, is liable to reach a perverse and oppressive state.
I hope I am correct in saying that around the time of the seventeenth century, the society/state began to liberate itself from the church. Even still, sexual liberty was small, and a “non-ethical” (meaning non- conservative) discourse on sex was prohibited. This type of regard to sex was also true in the eighteenth century. By the nineteenth century, sexual propaganda was created and fed to the masses.
One memorable time period that .....
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The Molecular Biology Of Cystic Fibrosis
.... They consist of such symptoms as chronic obstructive airways disease, pancreatic insufficiency and malabsorption, high electrolyte concentrations in sweat, sterility due to vas deferens obliteration, and subclinical cirrhosis of the liver . However, as the severity of these symptoms varies in different patients, and because of the presence of normal lungs after birth, it is difficult to make an early accurate prognosis (Bunch 95). The presence of mucus in the lungs provides a site where bacteria or virus .....
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Rabies
.... rabies.
Treatment
There is no known effective treatment for rabies once the symptoms of the illness have developed.
After individual consideration in certain cases a decision may be made to administer rabies vaccine to prevent the development of rabies.
What Can Be Done to Prevent Rabies?
Since there is no treatment for rabies the major emphasis is am preventing it. Below is a list to some ways of limiting the spread of rabies:
1. Domestic cats and dogs should be currently immunized
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Dreams
.... Globus of the University of California at Irvine, says to determine what kinds of stories they are and to figure out what they can tell us. He says "you need to look beneath the surface of a dream to find the coherence" (78).
Since 1853, when REM, or the dream state, was first recognized about thirty studies have explored gender differences in dreaming. These research studies on the gender differences in dreaming reveal some very curious observations.
Women's dreams have been found to differ fro .....
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Obstetrician Vs. Midwife
.... trusts technology and is wary of nature. The midwife trusts nature and is cautious about technology. The obstetrician fears a birth may go wrong. The midwife expects the birth will go right.
"Midwife" is a word that comes from the old English words mit wif, literally "with woman." A midwife is a person who is "with woman," especially during the period of pregnancy, birth, and caring for the newborn. Some people also use the word midwife as a verb, meaning to help give birth, as in "She 'midwifed' .....
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Comparing Treatment Approaches
.... no positive reinforcement, and would gradually be able to become successful in a treatment program. The problem with this point of view is that cocaine has not been shown to be very physically addicting, as there are no major symptoms of withdrawal that the patient is trying to combat by self-administering more of the drug. By making the drug ineffective in the blood stream, addicts would not receive what is thought to be positive reinforcement through cocaine's effects on the dopaminergic systems in the .....
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AIDS Esssay
.... is engulfed by AIDS. Drugs has made AIDS a moral issue because there is no family time spent when there should be.
The Bible says that no one should have sex before marriage. One who believes in the Bible would follow this command. Some people think that nothing will happen to them or that a person can only get AIDS by needles. Unprotected sex outside of marriage, in the eyes of some, is considered wrong. Through unprotected sex people can contract AIDS. When a person incessantly sleeps around w .....
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Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
.... hyperextension neck injuries are seen too. Also common is repetitive stress at work by people who work on assembly lines or keyboards, or athletes such as swimmers and baseball pitchers. All of the above predisposing factors ultimately lead to the narrowing of the costoclavicular space in the shoulder.
This injury is most commonly an overuse injury. This is due to the cause of the build up of scar tissue on the muscles of the neck by there being a stretching injury to the neck muscles. The tight muscles .....
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
.... a long flatten philtrum (area between the nose and mouth) and a thin upper lip.
There is also, a catch to diagnosing FAS, because applying these diagnostic criteria requires expertise in recognizing dysmorphic features. This is only because a child with FAS their features may change over time and age. However, the clinical recognition and reporting is improving, but on the other hand improvements can become troublesome by clouding the true changes in the rate of FAS over time. Tracking and collecti .....
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Dietary Supplements
.... a new drug must obtain FDA drug approval through an extensive process that involves preclinical testing on animals, three phases of investigational new drug testing, a new drug application review, and postmarketing surveillance research. Conversely, product testing is not required for any supplement with ingredients that have been present in the food supply prior to October 15, 1994, or that have a history of use or other safety evidence in labeled conditions.
Many supplements were not required to .....
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Marijuana As Medicine?
.... be legally available for doctors to prescribe to their patients, judging by their therapeutic need for it.
The oldest known medical use of marijuana dates back to the Emperor Shen-Nung in China in the 28th century BC. He prescribed it for such things as constipation, malaria, and absentmindedness. (Medical Marijuana, www.normal.com) Marijuana was also commonly used medically in, but not restricted to ancient Egypt to treat sore eyes, ancient India as an anesthetic, and ancient Greece to treat earac .....
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Schizophrenia
.... of the thinking process, such as hallucinations, delusions, and withdrawal from the outside world”(Bower, 1).
Schizophrenia is a biologically based brain disease. “The most recent advances in brain chemicals- dopamine and serotonin- in those who suffer from schizophrenia”(Bower,1). Also scientists believe schizophrenia is caused by poor parenting of weak will power. “This disease makes it difficult for a person to tell the difference between real and imagined experiences, to think logically, to .....
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