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- 6881: Diphtheria (Corynebacterium diphtheriae)
- ... ancient Syria and Egypt. In the 17th century, murderous epidemics of diphtheria swept Europe; in Spain "El garatillo" (the strangler"), in Italy and Sicily, "the gullet disease". In the 18th century, the disease reached the American colonies and reached epidemic proportions in 1735. Often, whole families died of the disease in a few weeks. The bacterium that caused diphtheria was first described by Klebs in 1883, and was cultivated by Loeffler ...
- 6882: Dietary Guidelines for North Americans and Suggestions for Food Choices
- ... kinds of advertisements are especially popular around the holidays, Christmas being the main one. The weight loss companies pump out the ads during this time of the year because they know that the average North American puts on a sweltering seven pounds of undesired baggage over this short period of time. Companies such as Weight Watchers and Jenny Craig have been successful because they supervise and keep track of their customers ...
- 6883: Cognitive Dissonance
- ... must look at it from the human perspective. Another example of observable cognitive-dissonance occurred on 4/7/96. The same three friends and myself were watching television. An anti-smoking campaign sponsored by the American Red Cross came on the television. Various facts about the amount of people that die every year from smoking and statistics about the amount of Americans with lung cancer were shared. I asked the girls ...
- 6884: The Virtues Of Honesty
- ... pressure. The electrical conductivity of the surface of the skin can also be measured-increased sweat-gland activity reduces the skin's ability to carry electrical current. The Reid polygraph, devised in 1945 by the American criminologist John Edward Reid, also records muscular movement. The apparatus that is worn by the seated subject includes a pneumograph tube, which is placed around the chest, an ordinary blood-pressure cuff and electrodes on ...
- 6885: Bursitis
- ... happen to anyone. So take the proper precautions to prevent yourself from acquiring this painful inflammation of the joints known as Bursitis. Bibliography 1. Jeffrey R.M. Kunz MD, Asher J. Finkel MD, eds. The American Medical Association: Family Medical Guide. New York: Random House, 1982. 2. Griffth, H. Winter. Bursitis. Putnam Berkel Group, 1996. Online. Lycos. Internet. 19 November 1996. 3. Lockshin, Micheal. "Bursitis." World Book. 1992 ed.
- 6886: The Working Class In Middletow
- ... in this class do not have the fortunate opportunities that the other classes share. These citizens have little or no education, make little money, and are often handicapped by a psychological or physiological disorder. In American history a class which doesn't fit this three system bracket has evolved. This class is called the working class. The working class is a rather complicated group and almost has a class system of ...
- 6887: Bipolar Affective Disorder
- ... general population (Jacobson et al., 1992). There are other effective treatments for bipolar disorder that are used in cases where the patients cannot tolerate lithium or can become unresponsive to it in the past. The American Psychiatric Association's guidelines suggest the next line of to be anticonvulsant such as valproate and carbamazepine. These drugs are useful as antimanic agents, especially in those patients with mixed states. Both of these medications ...
- 6888: Violence On TV
- ... s the world going to be like when the people who are now children are running the world? Bibliography Works Cited Langone, John. Violence. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1984. Cheyney, Glenn Alan. Television in American Society. New York: Franklin Watts Co., 1983. Howe, Michael J. A. Television and Children. London: New University Education, 1977. Husemann, L. Rowell. Social Channels Tune T.V.'s effects. Science News 14 Sept. 1985: 166 ...
- 6889: The Year 2000 Bug
- ... more annoying than serious. The more you become informed, the more prepared you will be to sort fact from fiction. Information and preparation are two wonderful antidotes to alarm and fear. John Glenn, two-time American space traveler, offered this advice about worry and the future advice that can be meaningfully applied to the year 2000 issue. "...The greatest antidote to worry, whether you're getting ready for spaceflight or facing ...
- 6890: Anabolic Steroids
- ... imposed in addition to the jail sentence, or by itself. The fine can be as high as $250,000. Statistics: 260,000 students in grades 7 to 12 either use or have used steroids. The American Heart Assoc. estimates at least half of all Division I college football players have used steroids over a substantial period of time. Black market steroids are topping sales of $400 million per year. One million ...
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