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- 411: Medical Miracles on the Horizon
- ... genetics. In the 21st Century, it is very possible that many incurable diseases such as autism, diabetes, and others may be eliminated. Physicians and scientists are even showing some hope for a future cure for AIDS, a terrifying and rapidly spreading disease that is now in the top ten causes of death. Another field of medicine that will be extremely vital in the next era is that of geriatrics. As life ...
- 412: The Ear and Hearing Loss
- ... handicap makes it difficult to for them to adapt to a regular school. Residential schools are the most common although occasionally there may be a school in a hospital. Hearing devices are also available. Hearing Aids operate on battery. They amplify the sound waves that the ear would normally receive. They range from $500 to $6000. INTERVIEW Question: How did you become about this disability? Answer: I was born with a ...
- 413: Health
- ... Respiratory aliments are their primary health problems (cold, headache, and tiredness). Allergies are their most common chronic illness. Fatal diseases are rare. The leading causes of deaths are for males, accidents and for females cancer. Aids is also a threat for this age group. The next area of concern is the middle-aged adults. There is a drastic change in health status from young adult to middle adulthood. Daily illnesses begin ...
- 414: Angina Pectoris
- ... and vaccines for various diseases and disorders are being developed constantly, and yet, coronary heart disease remains the number one killer in the world. The media today concentrates intensely on drug and alcohol abuse, homicides, AIDS and so on. What a lot of people are not realizing is that coronary heart disease actually accounts for about 80% of all sudden deaths. In fact, the number of deaths from heart disease approximately ...
- 415: Alzheimer's Disease
- ... there hasn't been a cure is because scientists tries to attract grants by working on a problem that people think is serious and controversial. If there was as much attention that was paid to AIDS as there was in AD, then maybe there will be an answer.
- 416: The History, Use, and Effectiveness of Medicinal Drugs
- ... minute amounts for the formation of nucleoproteins, proteins, and red blood cells, and for the functioning of the nervous system. Cobalamin deficiency is often due to the inability of the stomach to produce glycoprotein, which aids in the absorption of this vitamin. Pernicious anemia results, with its characteristic symptoms of ineffective production of red blood cells, faulty myelin (nerve sheath) synthesis, and loss of epithelium the membrane lining of the intestinal ...
- 417: Hepatitis A
- ... A In the world we live in, there are many diseases which are so deadly to the point where there is no cure for the disease. At one's first thought, most would think of AIDS, herpes, or maybe alshimers. However one might not consider Hepatitis, because a vaccine has been developed for types of the disease. Hepatitis can be caught and can also be hereditary. It is a disease to ...
- 418: Nursing: Lifting, Transferring and Positioning of Patients
- ... italics off}, vol. 91, no. 26, pp. 38-39. Scott, A. 1995, 'Improving patient moving and handling skills', {italics on} Professional Nurse {italics off}, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 105-110. Seymour, J. 1995, 'Handling Aids - Lifting and moving patients', {italics on} Nursing Times {italics off}, vol. 91, no. 27, pp. 48-50.
- 419: Mad Cow Disease
- ... knows for sure what the future will bring. Some scientists even feel this may be a catastrophic disease. Dr. Richard Lacey a microbiologist from England was quoted as saying "BSE is much more serious than AIDS"[Greger p.1], meaning there could be millions of people infected before the transmission of the disease is stopped. We can only hope the research and drastic measures being t aken will stop this disease ...
- 420: The Digestive Track
- ... moves food out of the stomach and into the small intestine. The lever contributes to this digestive process by secreting into the small intestine, a liquid called bile. The pancreas secretes pancreatic juice which further aids in dissolving food. The small intestine undergoes continual muscular contractions called peristalses. This action pushes food into the large intestine. This surface of the small intestine has a large number of threadlike projections called villi ...
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