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- 2101: Bipolar Affective Disorder
- ... Another problem associated with the use of lithium is experienced by pregnant women. Its use during pregnancy has been associated with birth defects, particularly Ebstein's anomaly. Based on current data, the risk of a child with Ebstein's anomaly being born to a mother who took lithium during her first trimester of pregnancy is approximately 1 in 8,000, or 2.5 times that of the general population (Jacobson et ... of these medications can be used in combination with lithium or in combination with each other. Valproate is especially helpful for patients who are lithium noncompliant, experience rapid- cycling, or have comorbid alcohol or drug abuse. Neuroleptics such as haloperidol or chlorpromazine have also been used to help stabilize manic patients who are highly agitated or psychotic. Use of these drugs is often necessary because the response to them are rapid ...
- 2102: Alcoholism: Symptoms, Causes, and Effects
- ... development of alcoholism. These include family conflict, job insecurity, divorce, and social stigma. Alcoholism is an outrageous public health problem. "The Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences estimates that alcoholism and alcohol abuse in the United States cost society from $40 to $60 billion annually, due to the lost production, health and medical care, motor vehicle accidents,violent crime, and social programs that respond to alcohol problems. One half of all traffic fatalities and one-third of all traffic injuries are related to to the abuse of alcohol" (Caplan 266). Accidents and suicides that are associated with alcohol problems are especially prominent in the teen years. It is estimated that over 3 million teens between the ages of 14 and 17 ... abusers of alcohol, gain as much knowledge as possible about the symptoms and effects of alcoholism if we ever want to see the reduction of statics involving fatalities, injuries, diseases caused from the use and abuse of alcohol. Education and realization of the effects alcoholism can have on the different aspects of a person's life are the best ways that we can help control the number of alcoholics in ...
- 2103: The Worlds Fight Against Microbes
- ... young children were due to Pneumococcus, and nearly half of those cases involved penicillin resistant strains. The initial resistance’s were incomplete. This means that only some of the organisms would die off and the child’s ears would clear up, and both parents and doctor would believe the illness gone. The organisms that did not die off would multiply , and in a few weeks the infection would be back. Then ... developing countries was to assume that pediatric pneumonia’s were bacterial, and treat with penicillin in the absence of laboratory proof of a viral infection. This process was shown to have reduced the number of child deaths in the test areas by more than a third, and even more surprising was that there was a 36 percent reduction in child deaths due to all other causes. This was only the good news. The bad news was that penicillin’s and other antibiotics offered no more benefit to children with mild and usually viral respiratory ...
- 2104: Multiple Births
- ... are rare in humans with twins as being the most common form of this event. Multiple births can arise in many different combinations of ways but the probability of giving birth to more than one child remains fairly constant when compared to the entire human race. The chances of multiple births can also vary from race and genetic background. Scientist and researchers do not know what the exact cause of these ... it is caused by hormone differences between different racial groups and/or the difference in social class. The prenatal and infant mortality is much higher in multiple pregnancies than in pregnancies that only involves one child. The danger of premature birth also increased with the higher number of offspring that are involved. In many multiple births, not all of the children survived to childhood or were born dead. Through the advances ... quintuplets. These and numerous other combinations can occur as the number of infants involved increases. Multiple pregnancies are a rare occasion, one of the factors for the incomplete statistics of the birth of a six child pregnancy. The number of infants born in multiple births, as well as larger births consisting of six or more children, are also increasing due to the use of fertility drugs. This widespread use is ...
- 2105: Censorship In Mark Twains Nove
- ... been acts of depriving children to read this great novel by removing it from most school libraries. "The book is a rich, deep text on many important issues: not only race and slavery, but violence, child abuse, alcoholism, and many other problems still relevant to American society. At the same time, it is an inventory of essential values, such as kindness, courage, and the need through moral choices" (Koster pg.159). Throughout ...
- 2106: The Future of Human Evolution
- ... of the next one hundred years following Mendel's discovery. These early studies concluded that each organism has two sets of character determinants, or genes (Stableford 16). For instance, in regards to eye color, a child could receive one set of genes from his father that were encoded one blue, and the other brown. The same child could al so receive two brown genes from his mother. The conclusion for this inheritance would be the child has a three in four chance of having brown eyes, and a one in three chance of having blue eyes (Stableford 16). Genes are transmitted through chromosomes which reside in the nucleus of every ...
- 2107: Discovering Sicke Cell Anemia
- ... that are important in this disease. Sickle Cell Anemia is a health problem throughout the world. More than 250,000 babies are born worldwide with this inherited blood cell disorder (http://www.medaccess.com/h_child/sickle/sca_01.htm). The disorder causes red blood cells to extend into a sickle shape which clogs the arteries.Persistant pain and life-threatening infections result from the illness. About one in 400 black newborns in the U.S. have sickle cell anemia. And one in 12 black Americans carry the sickle cell trait (http://www.medaccess.com/h_ child/sickle/sca_01.htm). This leaves a good chance that the parent with the trait can pass the defect onto offspring although their own health is not harmed. The cause of sickle cell anemia is ... oxygen being convenient for use by the cells of the body. Anyone whose parent has the gene for sickle cell anemia have the chance of at least having sickle cell trait. In order for a child to have the disease, both parents must have the sickle cell gene(refer to diagrams 2.1 and 2.2 on page 6). The disease affects mostly African Americans in Africa, South America, Latin ...
- 2108: Industrial Revolution
- ... What is the most surprising thing you have seen?” his only response was, “Little children working.” (Markham, 213) According to the Talmud, “Children must not be taken from the schools even to rebuild the Temple.” Child labor is perhaps the most demoralizing thing that has occurred throughout time. It was customary for families to stick together and they stuck together by working together. Families spent most of their time with one another. They lived together and they worked together. Some felt that the industrial life was better when the entire family worked together. In defense of child labor, Thomas Livermore, a mill worker, briefly describes his life before working in the mills and why he brought his family to the mills. Livermore owned two hundred acres of land, where he and his ... watching the rushing threads; dwarfing their muscles…befouling their lungs…bestowing ceaseless, anxious attention for hours, where science says that ‘A twenty-minute strain is long enough for a growing mind.’” (215) The majority of child laborers, mostly girls, worked in textile mills located in the South. (215) However, factory owners were driven by profit. “It pays…to grind little children into dividends.” (219) Word Count: 1445
- 2109: Comparison Of Shakespeare Shal
- ... first stanza has us pondering as to why were his neighbours driving him home. In the porch I met my father crying, is the line that opens the second stanza. It is unusual for a child to see a parent cry, especially the father, this could have been an extremely traumatic sight for the young Seamus Heaney. In this verse we also learn that someone has passed away, yet, to effectively ... of his brother. It is the last stanza that we find out also how he died, the bumper knocked him clear. It isn t until the solitary line ending when we know how old the child was, A four foot box, a foot for every year. It is the last line that would appeal to most people; the fact that the child killed was only four would affect many people s emotions. After reading and studying the poem, and looking back at the title, I now realise it may also have a deeper meaning. In Heaney ...
- 2110: Cancer
- ... for 60% of all human cancers. One reason a person would have a mutant gene is the “Li-Fraumeni families” disorder where the sperm or egg cell has a mutant that is passed to the child. In theory, the child receives one good gene which could right the bad cell, but it does not work this way. Every cell that has no good p53 cells completely lack the functions of the gene. When one of ... t have yet. At the Harvard Medical School, Lisa Geller noted 200 cases of discrimination against completely healthy people. Their cases ranged from lost jobs due to treatable problems, and the inability to give a child up for adoption because of a family history of disease. The discrimination has begun. Is it any wonder, then, that many people faced with the decision choose not to be tested? Out of many ...
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