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Term Papers on Health and Medicine
Lupus
Number of words: 1301 - Number of pages: 5.... it's called a butterfly rash. Another type of Lupus is, Systemic
Lupus Erythematosus. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus is usually more severe
than Discoid Lupus. Systemic Lupus can affect almost every organ in the
body. Most of the time or some of the times Discoid lupus will progress
into systemic Lupus. For some people, it only the joints and skin. In
others, the joints, blood, kidneys, lungs or other organs or tissues can be
affected. Last of all, Drug-induced Lupus, which occurs after taking some
certain prescribed drugs. Many of the symptoms of drug- .....
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Prenatal Diagnosis: Heredity Disorders, Other Biochemical Diseases, And Disfiguring Birth Defects
Number of words: 2121 - Number of pages: 8.... missing enzyme causes kidney and blood-vessel problems
that lead to high blood pressure, kidney failure and strokes.(Mulinsky, 1989).
After many years of symptoms, most patients have died in their thirties and
forties owing to a lack specific treatment.
A biochemical disorder also caused by a missing enzyme is the Lesch-
Nyhan syndrome, an extremely unpleasant disorder characterized not only by
profound mental retardation and features of brain damage (stiff limbs with
peculiar movements), but also self-mutilation, (Jones, 1988). Given good care
and attent .....
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Asbestos: Helpful Aspects Vs. Harmful Effects
Number of words: 1592 - Number of pages: 6.... Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), “there are six types
of asbestos fibers: Chrysotile, Amosite, Crocidolite, Anthophylite,
Actinolite, and Tremolite” (8). OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health
Administration) has categorized asbestos work into four different classes
depending on the amount of exposure to asbestos during a specific
employment. The categories consist of classes I, II, III, and IV, with
Class I work having the greatest amount of exposure to asbestos and Class
IV work having the least amount of exposure to asbestos. However, two .....
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Autism
Number of words: 536 - Number of pages: 2.... mentally retarded people. They don't seem aware that people are around them, including family members. Another thing that separates them from the mentally retarded is their display of strange postures, manners, habits, and compulsions. They might display rocking, hand flapping, strange food preferences, no eye contact, head banging, an insensitivity to pain, and other dangerous behavior. They are also often infatuated with inanimate objects.
About 50 % of all autistic individuals are mute, or only speak once or twice in their entire life span. Non mute autis .....
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Dreams
Number of words: 1481 - Number of pages: 6.... because it's your mind that's controlling you not
your body and gravity. For example, you could fly or walk through walls.
The powers of dreams
The dreaming world could be a very powerful thing so much so that it
causes a baby to be born because of lucid dreaming. In a true story taken from
the book called Living with Dreams a woman dreamt that she just had a period in
her dreams. This was so realistic that she actually thought she had a real
period not one dreamt up in a dream. A few days later she had sex thinking that
it was the best time to have sex wi .....
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Lassa Fever: An Old World Arenavirus
Number of words: 803 - Number of pages: 3.... tending to the sister came down with
the same symptoms and died, the doctors in the hospital began to suspect it was
a disease heretofore unseen by any of them. Autopsy on the nurse showed
significant damage to every organ in the body, the heart was stopped up, with
loads of blood cells and platelets piled well into the arteries and veins.
Fluids and blood filled the lungs. Dead cells and lipids clogged the liver and
spleen. The kidneys were so congested with dead cells and free proteins they had
ceased to function. Dissecting the lymph nodes, they discovered tha .....
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Herpes
Number of words: 142 - Number of pages: 1.... Herpes should be treated by a doctor for many reasons. Treatments
are aimed at easing pain, more so than curing the disease.
How it is spread
Herpes is spread by direct contact with the Herpevirus. A virus
inside the sores. If you touch a sore with any area were the skin is thin,
(eyes, mouth or genitals), the Herpevirus is spread. Herpes can be spread
even when the sore is not visible. Herpes victims with the sore in on
place can infect themselves in others.
Symtoms
The signs of the virus are itching or tingling and sores. .....
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Nutrition In Mountain Biking
Number of words: 1394 - Number of pages: 6.... much faster than eating carbo 5. You can spend over $1000 a year on recovery
drinks
VI. Cereal 1. Flakes are carbo rich, low in fat, and quickly digested 2. Sugar
coated are not bad either 3. Most cereals contain less than 2 grams of fat per
serving
When riding a bicycle, your muscles produce 30-100 times more heat than
when your body is at rest. The body puts out this inferno by increasing the
sweat rates. In the summer you can lose over two liters of fluid per hour on a
really hot day, dehydration and saddle soars are the leading reasons cyclists
drop .....
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