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- 2941: An American Crisis: Gulf War Syndrome
- ... a claim that he cannot prove. Why would the US government want to deny combat veterans of his claim? What is American government trying to hide? I believe that Gulf War Syndrome is a side effect of low-levels of chemical and biological warfare agents the troops were exposed to during their service in the Persian Gulf. I can justify my belief by the number of ailing vets and Saddam's ...
- 2942: Psychology
- ... Because the eyes are about 2 inches apart from pupil to pupil and therefore are looking at the object from different angles, the two views are not exactly alike. This is known as the stereoscopic effect. If the object is far away, the difference between the images is slight. If it is a few inches away, the difference is very great. The brain makes good use of this phenomenon. It learns ...
- 2943: A Study of Depression and Relationships
- ... of Others, and Relationship Functioning, by Katherine B. Carnelley, Paula R. Pietromonaco, and Kenneth Jaffe. This study focuses on the idea that the type of care received in childhood, positive or negative, has a great effect on relationship functioning later in adulthood. But there are two links between child-rearing and relationship functioning: attachment style and depression. Both derive from the type of care received in childhood and affect relationship functioning ...
- 2944: Plagues and Diseases
- ... throughout the next 400 years, but never like it did the first time. It also reached into Africa, China, Russia, and the Scandinavian countries. It was truly a worldwide pandemic. But, it has a secondary effect that not many people are aware of. The colonies of Greenland, settled by the Vikings, were stricken by the plague and they soon disappeared. It is known that these colonies kept in contact with "Vinland ...
- 2945: The Effects of Anabolic Steroids
- ... of anabolic steroids. Steroids tend to increase blood pressure, which makes the heart pump harder, eventually weakening it. They also prevent the removal of cholesterol from the walls of veins, which can also have negative effect on the body. In the liver, elevated levels of bile can be present, as well as peliosis hepatis or blood pools in the liver. Also liver cancer has been linked to the use of steroids ...
- 2946: Steroids
- ... cycle. Growth can also be prematurely halted in adolescents, which may prove to be disastrous to their social development in later years. Many people do not think about it, but steroids also have a negative effect on an addict's financial standing. Because steroids are sold on the streets and across the internet, there is a large price to pay. However, people who are badly addicted are willing to pay whatever ...
- 2947: Smoking
- ... becoming sick of them. More than 30 million persons in the U.S. say that they would like to quit smoking but cannot. One hypothesis to explain this problem is that the smoker craves the effect of the nicotine in the smoke. In a 1988 report, the surgeon general declared nicotine to be an addictive drug comparable to other addictive substances in its ability to induce dependence. The report also called ...
- 2948: Sexual Transmitted Diseases Defined
- ... up visit is important. To avoid spreading the infection the person should not have sex until the doctor says that it is cured. It can take up to fourteen days. This stops the Ping Pong effect. GENITAL HERPES This infection is caused by the Herpes simplex virus. The symptoms are similar, and can result from either oral-to-genital or genital-to-genital contact. The virus causes blisters on the genitals ...
- 2949: Premature Infancy
- ... preterm babies is not an inherent trait, which is a common rumor, but some conditions which premature babies have later in life, such as diabetes, are inherent. Age is also a factor which has no effect on bearing a premature child. Although older women tend to be less fertile and have a greater chance of bearing a baby with genetic defects, such as having Down's Syndrome, they do not have ...
- 2950: Obesity
- ... attention. Phentermine is similar to an amphetamine and it works to increase metabolic rate. Fenfluramine(brand name Pondimin) in-creases the serotonin level, which decreases appetite. However, neither drug works alone. They only have optimum effect together. Phen-fen is how I became interested in the research of new obesity drugs. I first learned of phen-fen in June. The article I read in the Knoxville paper about people who had ...
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