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- 2491: Treatments of Huntington's Disease
- ... thereby preventing the disease to progress any further. In other Huntington-related research, scientists have found where huntingtin protein is localized in nerve cells, a step closer to discovering its contribution toward Huntington's. A French team reported that they have developed an antibody that attaches itself to the defective protein in Huntington's and four other inherited diseases. This finding may lead to identifying the defects in a variety of ...
- 2492: Side Effects of Carl Djerassi and Syntex's Oral Contraceptive
- ... shrug of his shoulders and a simple, "I couldn't have changed things". Again, I am disturbed by the flippant manner of his response. Yes, he acknowledged the impact the Pill had on the sexual revolution, but fails to see beyond what has already occurred, claiming powerlessness against the pace of science. Let me say that he is most likely partially correct. There is very little to be done when science ...
- 2493: The Spread of AIDS
- ... AIDS is thought to be caused primarily by a virus that invades white blood cells (lymphocytes) - especially T4-lymphocytes or T-helper cells - and certain other body cells, including the brain. In 1983 and 1984, French and U.S. researchers independently identified the virus believed to cause AIDS as an unusual type of slow-acting retrovirus now called "human immunodeficiency virus" or HIV. Like other viruses, HIV is basically a tiny ...
- 2494: Homeopathic Remedies
- Homeopathic Remedies We may be seeing the seeds of revolution being sown in the American health industry. People are turning from traditional medicine in increasingly large numbers. Visits to Alternative practitioners have grown 47% from 1991 to 1997; 427 million visits in 1991 to 629 ...
- 2495: Biological Warfare and Terrorism
- ... are closely related to chemical weapons; in fact several industrial chemicals were even employed as c hemical weapons during World War I. Chlorine and phosgene were both used extensively by both the German, British, and French during the war. Although these substances are far less lethal than the nerve agents, they are quite common and have "many legiti mate industrial applications" (Dunn, 5). Even more frightening is that an entire class ...
- 2496: Dreams
- ... and old age. Curiously, these differences transcend time and culture: A comparison of the dreams of college students in 1950 and in 1990 found the sex differences to be identical. Despite feminism and the sexual revolution, women were still concerned about the home and family, men were concerned about pounding the male rival. In fact, men on opposite sides of the world dream more like one another than they do like ...
- 2497: Two Sides of The Brain
- ... their temperature - by imaging they are sunbathing or in a warm bath - they can control their circulatory system and terefore the migrane." Knowledge of our two-sided brain began in the mid-1800's when French neurologist Paul Broca discovered that injuries to the left side of the brain resulted in the loss of speech. Damage to the right side, however did not. Doctors speculated over what this meant. Was the ...
- 2498: Aspartame and Olestra: Will We Buy the Bull?
- ... fake foods that taste nothing like the real thing, or pass. Sure, a man with a heart disease will not be able to eat a steak, but maybe he will be allowed to eat the French fries to go with it if they are prepared with Olean (Olestra). Olean is a fat derivative that chemically resembles real fat, with the exception that is much bigger, cannot be absorbed by the organism ...
- 2499: The Spanish-American War
- ... vivid memories of the Cuban revolt of 1868-1878, a long and exhausting conflict called the "Ten-Years War" that essentially ended in a draw. In 1895 a depression in Cuba made conditions worse, and revolution again broke out threatening to go on indefinitely as the rebels would be strong enough win, nor would the Spanish forces be powerful enough to defeat them. American newspapers, especially the yellow press of rival ...
- 2500: Suicide
- ... and she didn't know of any other way to ask for it. I stayed a week with her through this trying period in her life, and found out it was partly because of her French exchange student boyfriend. They weren't broken up, but he had to go back to France, and she couldn't see him as much as she would have liked to. Her mother started taking her ...
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