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- 6771: The Human Genome Project
- ... for understanding the functioning of the human genome. The information gathered by the human genome project is expected to be the source book for biomedical science in the twenty-first century and will be of great value to the field of medicine. The project will help us to understand and eventually treat more than 4,000 genetic diseases that affect mankind. The scientific products of the human genome project will include ... a "pragmatism of risks and benefits", writing that, "The debate on human genetic engineering should become like the on nuclear power: one in which large possible benefits have to be weighed against big problems and great disasters". One significant element is the assertion that genetic engineering is radically different from any other kind of human medicine, and constitutes interference in a restricted area, trying to "play God". As Robert Wright notes ...
- 6772: Birth Defects
- ... short upturned noise. flattened nasal bridge and prominent nostrils. c) neuro-developmental abnormalities: The average IQ of a person ranges greatly. However, the mean average is about 70 and follow up studies indicate that no great improvement is likely. d) Congenital abnormalities: Health defects occur in up to 50 percent of cases and skeletal defects are common, predominantly fusion of the bones of the fingers, toes and arms. ( Gardner 6) However ... their children and never overcame their frustration and disappointment. The ideal parents were those who, while sufficiently intelligent to appreciate the needs of the child and to have insight into the difficulties, did not have great ambition, and so they did not constantly display their disappointment. They were perhaps rather fatalistic in their outlook. They looked upon the child as a gift for which to be thankful whatever the condition. ( Darling ...
- 6773: "To See What Factors Affect The Decomposition Of Hydrogen Peroxide By The Enzyme Catalase Which Is Found In The Liver"
- ... things. Without them the reactions would be so slow that life would grind to a halt. Enzymes work by when a substrate molecule bumps into a molecule of the right enzyme, it fits into a depression on the surface of the enzyme molecule. This depression is called the active site. The reaction then takes place and the molecules of product leave the active site, freeing it for another substrate molecule. Hydrogen peroxide is a waste product produced during respiration. Hydrogen ...
- 6774: Anabolic Steroids
- ... different kinds. In one study, physicians Ian Wilson, Arthur Prang, Jr., and Patricio Lara found that four out of five men suffering from dippresion when given a steroid suffered from dillusions. A research team from Great Britian Found that a patient given steroids became dizzy, dissoriented, and incoherent. Physicians William Layman and William Annitto have had a case of a young man who was diagnosed as schizophrenic took steriods to help ... steroids. It stated that for many people any benefits of anabolic steroids are small and not worth the health risk. Yet almost all the athletes who use anabolic steroids feel that the steroids had a great effect and that they would not have been successful without them. The big gap between researchers and athletes has caused a big contraversy athletes say one thing and researchers say another. The researchers have found ...
- 6775: Attention Deficit Disorder
- ... functioning. Depending on your symptoms, your diagnosis may be categorized as ADD, inattentive type ADD, or hyperactive/impulsive type ADD. After your diagnosis you may learn that you are also suffering from a learning disability, depression, or substance abuse, which is often associated with ADD. There is no cure for Attention Deficit Disorder. "Along with increasing awareness of the problem, a better understanding of its causes and treatment has developed (3 ... often hinders their progress. The patient then needs help with the relief of disappointment, frustration, and nagging sense of self- doubt that often weighs upon the ADD patient. Some ADD patients suffer from low- grade depression or anxiety, others with a dependence on alcohol or drugs, and most with low self-esteem and feelings of helplessness. Therapy also helps the ADD patient fully understand the disorder and how it controls the ...
- 6776: One Thousand Years of Chinese Footbinding: Its Origins, Popularity and Demise
- ... destro yed, which in its extreme moments necessitated an assault on the women who had them.[38] This almost-unreal process of change demanded its price, and the payment was often in the form of great individual suffering. Footbinding is a bold issue, as for many Chinese people the practice is so linked to sex and sexuality that it makes them uncomfortable to discuss it and consider it seriously. For others ... Today in China its last surviving practitioners are additionally handicapped by old age and arthritis, and these living anachronisms are all that remains of a vanished phenomenon. In 1995 Chinese film maker Yang Yeuqing found great difficulty in making a film about footbinding since no one in China was particularly willing to talk about it, and she feared that Chinese authorities would attempt to block the project. Chinese movies about China ...
- 6777: Breast Cancer
- ... As of March 1998, the American Cancer Society was granted 7 million dollars towards environmental cancerogenesis and cancer. 743,000 dollars of that amount went towards Breast Cancer. The environmental causes of Breast Cancer, although great, are not properly funded by the ACS. This is because there are only a few assumptions as to what environmental causes can promote Breast Cancer; due to the fact that they cannot be easily determined ... treatments and the outcome of the treatments. Psycho-oncologists must of course have a psychology degree, but they must also possess a very good knowledge of Breast Cancer. The need of psycho-oncologists is very great as they must operate with the doctors who treat Breast Cancer. The problems that Breast Cancer patients go through must also be one major thing that psycho-oncologists must be able to understand. Psycho- oncologists ...
- 6778: Drugs: How Danagerous Is It?
- ... gets purer heroin, he or she can easily overdose, killing them. Also, because this is injected by a needle, heroin can pass diseases, including AIDS. Short term effects include the following: quick addiction, quick tolerance, depression, and blurred vision. Long term effects include the following: depression, vein disorders. The fact that you can die of an overdose makes heroin very dangerous. People who use marijuana and want something better, try heroin once or twice and are addicted. Cocaine is a drug ...
- 6779: Abortion Should Not Be Legalized
- ... None of the methods women use to abort are completly safe. One of the most common methods used is Suction Aspiration. The doctor uses a special tool to suck the baby into a collection bottle. Great care must be taken to prevent the uterus from being damaged, which would cause hemorrhage. A woman with hemorrhage will need a blood transfusion that could cause her AIDS. Also infection may easily occur if ... could last for a lifetime. Women that abort usually suffer severe traumas. Once, a woman was rapped by five men. She didn't want to have the child, but her pain and embarrasment were so great that she couldn't abort until the last month. She is still in psychological treatment. Psychologist Wanda Franz states, "Women feel worthless because they failed at the most natural of human activities, the role of ...
- 6780: Abortion
- ... that allows women to have non-invasive, safer and easier abortions in the privacy of their own homes. This option also eliminates any contact with livid pro-lifers and their antagonistic methods. RU486 also offers great medical promise in the research and possible cures/treatments of breast cancer, endometriosis, prostrate and brain cancer. Right now, pro-lifers are preventing RU486 from being used in the US. However, it is currently on the market in a number of countries, and is being used with great success. The "M&M" abortion is named after the two drugs used to induce it: mifepristone and misoprostol. This process is based on the same theory as RU486, and has been thoroughly tested at Planned ...
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