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Term Papers on Health and Medicine
Alzheimer's Disease
Number of words: 736 - Number of pages: 3.... Neurofibrillary Tangles are also found in the brains of
Alzheimer's victims. They are found within the cell bodies of nerve cells in
the cerebral cortex, and take on the structure of a paired helix. Other
diseases that have "paired helixes" include Parkinson's disease, Down's
Syndrome, and Dementia Pugilistica. Scientists are not sure how the paired
helixes are related in these very different diseases. Neuritic Plaques are
patches of clumped material lying outside the bodies of nerve cells in the brain.
They are mainly found in the cerebral cortex, .....
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Suicide Solution
Number of words: 540 - Number of pages: 2.... life in an over populated world.
True, one less person here on there will not make a large dent. Yet if
everyone who attempts or had attempted suicide were not stopped, the
impact would be noticed.
Another popular argument for stoppers, people who want to prevent
suicide, is that nothing can be bad enough. Yet how do they know this?
They do not have to put up with the same stuff the suicide victim does
everyday. How could they possibly know what the potential suicide victim
feels. Just as a severely burned victim may wish to be allowed to die in
peace, .....
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Adolescent Depression - The Under Acknowledged Disease
Number of words: 1085 - Number of pages: 4.... is a time of emotional turmoil, mood swings, gloomy thoughts, and heightened sensitivity. It is a time of rebellion and experimentation. Blackman (1996) observed that the "challenge is to identify depressive symptomatology which may be superimposed on the backdrop of a more transient, but expected, developmental storm." Therefore, diagnosis should not lay only in the physician's hands but be associated with parents, teachers and anyone who interacts with the patient on a daily basis.
Unlike adult depression, symptoms of youth depression are often masked. In .....
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Physician Assisted Suicide
Number of words: 778 - Number of pages: 3.... patient with the means and/or knowledge to commit suicide”(Death and Dying,91). “Euthanasia is when the physician administers the death causing drug or agent”(Death and Dying,92). The most recent case is that of The State of Florida v. Charles Hall. “Charles Hall is dying of AIDS and challenged the State of Florida to let him die by a self-administered lethal injection without fear of prosecution”(http://www.rights.org/ deathnet/open.html). On January 31, 1997, a Judge ruled that Charles Hall could take his own life with the aid of a doctor. Senior Judge S. .....
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Mononucleosis
Number of words: 633 - Number of pages: 3.... ,
and surface components of protein that enable them to enter cells. Viruses are
unable to multiple outside of cells. Mono is found in the DNA in the body.
Another name for mononucleosis is glandular fever because of the fever and
swelling of the lymph nodes throughout the body. What causes mononucleosis is
the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), which is like herpes. The herpes virus also
causes some cases of mono and other diseases. Mono usually occurs in adults 15
to 30 years old, but is known to appear at any age.
Mono symptoms include fever, chills, fatigue, .....
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Anorexia Nervosa
Number of words: 1119 - Number of pages: 5.... from starvation
(Encarta Encyclopedia, Internet).
Anorexia nervosa is a disorder in which preoccupation with dieting
and thinness leads to excessive weight loss. The individual may not
acknowledge that weight loss or restricted eating is a problem
(www.anorexia.com, Internet).
The American Anorexia Nervosa Association defines anorexia as a
"serious illness of deliberate self-starvation with profound psychiatric
and physical components."
Now that we know what anorexia means, lets narrate how this disease
came to be noticeable. We have .....
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Abortion: Life Or Death Who Chooses?
Number of words: 4436 - Number of pages: 17.... 20th Century. But who in reality is using arguments of a
bygone Century? It is an incontrovertible fact of biological science - Make no
Mistake - that from the moment of conception, a new human life has been created.
Only those who allow their emotional passion to overide their knowledge,
can deny it: only those who are irrational or ignorant of science, doubt that
when a human sperm fertilizes a human ovum a new human being is created. A new
human being who carries genes in its cells that make that human being uniquely
different from any and other human being .....
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AIDS: A U.S.- Made Monster?
Number of words: 1392 - Number of pages: 6.... also called
'helper cells`, which play a regulatory role in the production of antibodies in
the immune system." In the course of the illness, the number of functional T4-
cells is reduced greatly so that new anti-bodies cannot be produced and the
defenceless patient remains exposed to a range of infections that under other
circumstances would have been harmless. Most AIDS patients die from
opportunistic infections rather than from the AIDS virus itself. The initial
infection is characterized by diarrhea, erysipelas and intermittent fever. An
apparen .....
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