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- 3001: Birth Defects
- ... he died. (Gravelle 56). " About one in three hundred people carries this disease, but carriers are ten times more common among mid and eastern European Jews" (Gravelle 56). This devastating disease has a tremendous emotional effect on the parents. From day one they watch their beautiful healthy child grow up and live a normal life. Their child could live a normal life for three to four years without any symptoms. And ...
- 3002: Needle Exchange Programs
- ... the other hand are many treatment and law enforcement specialists, who argue that providing sterile needles to IV drug users is not likely to prevent them from sharing needles, thus not likely to have much effect on rates of HIV infection. (Godlaski 1). Most US states have paraphernalia laws that make it a crime to posses or distribute drug paraphernalia not for a "legitimate medical purpose" (Schwartz A3), which subjects drug ...
- 3003: Cancer
- ... that is caused by cell mutations that occur during the process of division. The oncogens stimulate a cell to divide, and a tumor suppressor damps it down in a normal system. When the mutations take effect, they multiply and begin playing games to keep itself alive. Some of these tricks include: silencing the genes which indicate a dysfunction in the DNA when it is being copied, becoming immune to poisons and ...
- 3004: Dreams
- ... while people sleep, REM occurs about every ninety minuets. REM sleep occurs about four or five times a night. Researchers have found that then people are deprived of REM sleep, they will experience a rebound effect in which they will try to catch up on their loss of REM sleep by staying in REM sleep longer during subsequent occasions (Dolnick 45). Furthermore, most dreams contain common elements: settings, characters, actions, and ...
- 3005: Is More Than One Cause of AIDS Possible?
- ... of T-cells, which are the immune system. Now, in every AIDS patient studied so far, there is never more than, on average, one in 1,000 cells infected by HIV (Guccione). If such little effect is done by HIV, and AIDS still exists, there must be some other cause. The only evidence that the supporters of the HIV/AIDS hypothesis have is correlation. The correlation is that the majority of ...
- 3006: Anorexia
- ... difficult. In any case, it cannot be overemphasized how important treatment is for the people who have these disorders. The longer eating behaviors persist, the more difficult it is to overcome the disorder and its effect on the body. If an eating disorder is suspected, particularly if it involves weight loss, the first step is a complete physical examination to rule out any other illnesses. Once an eating disorder is diagnosed ...
- 3007: Vegetarianism
- ... given to the current era because people can retrieve, send, and process knowledge faster and more efficiently than ever before. From our new period has come technological advancements which have both caused and been an effect of the growing pool of information available to the world. Communities more fully understand and are changing the way they affect the environment of their areas and the rest of the planet. The science of ...
- 3008: The Ebola Virus
- ... are symptoms to a real and fatal virus. The virus's name is Ebola and it has started its burn into our society. Like the AIDS virus, nothing really is known about it except its effect on people. Like the AIDS virus, there is no cure, treatment or vaccination. Unlike the AIDS virus which can take up to 8 to 10 years to kill you, this virus can take as little ...
- 3009: Cigarette Smoking
- ... to passive smoke. A recent federal Environmental protection agency reported on the dangers of second hand smoke. They found this kills fifty-three thousand non smokers a year. By putting a smoke free policy into effect, it will send a strong message about protecting health. Even though designated areas are set aside for smokers this does not really protect a non-smoker. The heating and air conditions does not filter out ...
- 3010: Antibiotics
- ... stopping (and therefore killing) the growth of a specific microorganism. It probably accomplishes this by interfering with the wall of the bacteria cell at which it is targeted while at the same time having little effect on the body's normal cells. When one is exposed continually to an antibiotic for an illness of long duration (such as rheumatic fever), the targeted bacteria may develop its own defense against the drug ...
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