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- 4931: Brain Transplant
- ... to find healthy brains of the same age as the person who needs it? This could also bring up other factors such as intelligence, gender, or physical problems that a person might have had before death. Also another problem might be with the period of time a brain can be kept "alive" after death and how it can be kept "alive" without damage. Overall, my feelings about this surgery are that it should not be done on humans until doctors have overcome all the problems and obstacles that stand ...
- 4932: Birth Defects
- ... off the many stresses facing parents. They no longer have to go it alone. Tay Sachs disease is another selective genetic disorder that destroyed nerve cells. This causes mental retardation, loss of muscle control and death. Children who inherit an abnormal gene from both parents will inherit the decease. The carrier parents have one normal gene and one defective gene. Carriers of Tay-Sachs disease have no symptoms. " If two carriers ... child could live a normal life for three to four years without any symptoms. And then with no warning their normal way of life changes dramatically as they watch their child suffer a slow traumatizing death. Along with watching their child, they also have to face their new life. They now have to sent most of their time and money on the child, but how ? If they both take off work ...
- 4933: Alzheimer's Disease
- Alzheimer's Disease Alzheimer's Disease is a progressive and irreversible brain disease that destroys mental and physical functioning in human beings, and invariably leads to death. It is the fourth leading cause of adult death in the United States. Alzheimer's creates emotional and financial catastrophe for many American families every year, but fortunately, a large amount of progress is being made to combat Alzheimer's disease every year. To ...
- 4934: AIDS: Aquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
- ... the current moment, but they are doing serious research on them. I call it the "Generation X Disease" because it mostly affects my sex- oriented generation. It is currently one of the leading causes of death in the USA and the death rate is increasing drastically! It it the perfect virus of the ninties because of how it is transmitted is like what the ninties is about... sex and drugs(what a great generation huh). Everyone's ...
- 4935: Acquired Immune Difficiency Syndrome
- Acquired Immune Difficiency Syndrome AIDS is a life and death issue. To have the AIDS diseas is at present a sentence of slow but inevitable death. I've already lost one friend to AIDS. I may soon lose others. My own sexual behavior and that of many of my friends has been profoundly altered by it. In my part of the ...
- 4936: Needle Exchange Programs
- ... 125,000 people had developed AIDS as a result of injecting drugs with unsterile syringes.(Knox A1) Over a third of new AIDS cases stem from injection drug use. AIDS is the leading cause of death among all Americans aged twenty-five to forty-four. As more and more people contract HIV through dirty needles, the proportion of all AIDS patients who are injecting drug users, their sexual partners, or their ... should the United States aid them in their illegal habits? If the users are doing the wrong thing, then they must be responsible for their actions, and face the consequences which are imprisonment of even death. For many supporters, needle exchange programs are the lesser of two evils. It is difficult to endorse a program that "tacitly sanctions illegal drug use, but it's even harder to dismiss a proven way ...
- 4937: Anorexia
- ... and sometimes life-threatening eating disorders. The vast majority are adolescents and young adult women. Approximately one percent of adolescents girls develop anorexia nervosa, a dangerous condition in which they can literally starve themselves to death. Another two to three percent develop bulimia nervosa, a destructive pattern of excessive overeating followed by vomiting or other " purging " behaviors to control their weight. These eating disorders also occur in men and older women , but much less frequently. The consequences of eating disorders can be severe. For example, one in ten anorexia nervosa leads to death from starvation, cardiac arrest, or suicide. Fortunately, increasing awareness of the dangers of eating disorders, sparked by medicall studies and extensive media coverage, has led many poeple to seek help. Nevertheless, some people with eating ...
- 4938: FightClub
- Joshua Cobbley period 1 4-9-00 Synopsis Night has fallen. Bombs are placed in the worlds largest building. A man rants about how the first step to take towards eternal life is death; while he shoves the barrel of a gun into the mouth of his best friend. " We won't really die." Tyler says. "This isn't really death, we'll be legends.". But soon were the two men are standing will be nothing more than a point in the sky. A time laps camera will pick up all the action in 9 minutes ...
- 4939: Insulin-Dependent Diabetes
- ... delaying the onset of complications resulting from diabetes. 1. Cardiovascular Complications. Heart and blood vessel diseases such as heart attack, hardening of the arteries (arteriosclerosis), and stroke are the leading causes of illness, disability and death among diabetics. Persons with diabetes are twice as likely to suffer from coronary heart disease and stroke and five times as likely to suffer from arterial disease of the limbs than the non-diabetic population ... symptoms of ketoacidosis develop slowly over a period of days. The person with diabetes may begin to experience abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, rapid breathing and drowsiness. If left untreated, ketoacidosis can progress to coma and death. Ketoacidosis can be prevented by careful daily evaluation of insulin needs. Particularly stressful situations such as illness or surgery may require increased amounts of insulin. Most importantly, a person with diabetes should never skip or ...
- 4940: Cholera
- ... salt at the rate they are secreted, the patient suffers severe diarrhea. This loss of fluid causes severe dehydration and changes in the body chemistry. If untreated, the illness can lead to shock and eventually death. With proper treatment, Cholera lasts only a few days. Prevention of Cholera requires adequate sanitation facilities. A vaccine against the illness has been developed, but it is not very effective. People who travel in areas ... in treating it. Two thousand people have died; less than 1 percent of the roughly 250,000 who got the disease. In the worldΥs last huge epidemic in West Africa in the early 1970Υs, the death rate was between 20 and 30 percent. Cholera has killed 2,000 people while 40,000 children under 5 die ea year from diarrhea in Peru. On January 23, 1991, the inevitable happened. The first ...
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