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- 1681: Sudden Infant Death Syndrom
- ... shown to impair development of the fetal central nervous system, there is an obvious link that exists between the two. Mothers should become increasingly aware of smoking as a cause of SIDS, along with other drugs and carcinogens as well. Sometimes the best solution to this problem boils down to the obvious which is prevention. In this case, it is prevention of smoking during pregnancy. Another possible cause of SIDS may ...
- 1682: Respiratory Diseases
- ... the only symptom. Attacks usually last only a couple hours. An attack may happen again in hours to even years after the first attack. Asthma attacks can be treated and prevented by the use of drugs. Albuterol or terbutaline, which can bring relief within minutes, is the usual treatment. The common cold is another disease of the respiratory system. The cold affects the mucous membranes of the nose and throat. It ...
- 1683: Leprosy
- ... leoline facies, a lionlike appearance with thick nodulous skin, are signs of advanced disease, now preventable with early treatment. For many years the use of chaulmoogra oil was used for the treatment for Leprosy. Today drugs such as dapsone, rifampin, and clofazimine are used alongside a healthy diet. If killed too quickly, bacilli may cause a systematic reaction. The reaction is called erythema nodosum leprosum, or ENL may cause progressive impairment ...
- 1684: Diseases: Sex Linked and Sex Influenced
- ... may come and go in a matter of a week for no apparent reason. Some circumstances , however, inhibit the symptoms of gout. These circumstances include: emotional upset, diuresis, surgery, trauma, and the administration of certain drugs. Cochicine is the classic treatment for gout, but new medicines have surfaced recently. Sex linked and sex influenced diseases are a problem that hurts our society. Although many of the diseases are just an inconvenience ...
- 1685: Clinical Chemistry Tests In Medicine
- ... change in various conditions. Serum immunoglobulin levels can increase with viral or bacterial infection, parasitism, lymphosarcoma, and liver disease. Levels are decreased in immunodeficiency. Albumin is a serum protein that affects osmotic pressure, binds many drugs, and transports fatty acids. Albumin is produced in the liver and is the most prevalent serum protein, making up 40 to 60 percent of the total protein. Serum albumin levels are decreased (hypoalbuminemia) by starvation ...
- 1686: Smoking Banana Peels
- Smoking Banana Peels Back in the 1960s a lot of young poeple took drugs and these people would try anyhing to get a "high." One Craze was called " Smoking Banana Peels " and that is what this is about . It all started around 1967 when somebody wrote a letter to ...
- 1687: Can Genetics Cause Crime?
- ... Sullivan then began to organize his departments research resources under the banner of the so called "Violence Initiative" as he put it. With the predominant thought of looking at unemployment, poverty, the use of drugs and any other factors that might help to contribute to the likelihood of causing violence. Primarily Sullivans research was directed towards the psychological and sociological point of view. Sullivan primarily working with the before mentioned ...
- 1688: Dreams
- ... 13) The Greeks also believed that their dreams were divine messages from the gods. The Greeks had many sacred places in Greece that were used for the sole purpose of having dreams by means of drugs and herbs. They would then regard the dreams that they had at these places as important prophecies, with special references to any problems that they were having at the time of the dream. Plato, a ...
- 1689: Modern Technology and Medicine
- ... of modern technology. What is surprising is that before the computers electronic weights and many of the other modern advancements medical advancement were taking place. What is even more surprising is the way that the drugs were stumbled upon. Many of the scientists during the fifties knew that they were going in the right direction but few were able to be achieved because of the lack of technology. It is basically ...
- 1690: Multiple Personalities: Do They Really Exist?
- ... the confusion of MPD with the disease of schizophrenia. Schizophrenics do NOT have distinct personalities, rather, they have hallucinations of voices outside their heads. Schizophrenia is caused by brain malfunctions and can be treated with drugs, whereas suffers of MPD cannot because MPD is an almost purely psychological disorder. MPD seems to be caused mainly by incredibly violent and terrible childhood abuse. In fact, about 98% of MPD sufferers were abused ...
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