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Term Papers on Health and Medicine
Ebola
Number of words: 1207 - Number of pages: 5.... Reston. This virus was brought by African monkeys that were imported to the United States in 1989. It was identified by Dr. Peter Jahling This type of is not believed to cause health poblems in humans. The most recent strain discovered is the Tai. It was identified by Dr. Bernard Le Guenno in 1995. It was discovered in the Ivory Coast of west Africa in the Tai Forest. A Swiss researcher was the first to contract this strain he survived the infection.
There are many differences betweent these strains. Reston does not cause illness in humans but .....
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The Middle Of Life
Number of words: 603 - Number of pages: 3.... a large lifestyle change. They have the crisis of losing their role as a parent and needing to find a new sense of identity without this role. Feelings that come with this part of the crisis include depression, self-doubt, heartache and low spirits. They must also handle any kind of regret or feeling of failure about their time and place as a parent.
As a mid-life parent, some people (mostly women) can feel caught in the "sandwich generation". This means they are taking care of not only their children, but often grandparents all the way down to grandchildre .....
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Osteoporosis
Number of words: 642 - Number of pages: 3.... at
any age. Osteoporosis is responsible for 1.5 million fractures annually,
including:
-more than 300,000 hip fractures
-500,000 vertebral fractures
-200,000 wrist fractures
Certain some people are more likely to develop Osteoporosis than others. These
factors can increase your chances of getting osteoporosis.
-A family history of fractures in elderly women
-Use of certain medications
-Chronically low calcium intake
-Thin and/or small bones
-An inactive lifestyle
-Cigaret .....
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Aspartame And Olestra: Will We Buy The Bull?
Number of words: 1175 - Number of pages: 5.... why I think that food substitutes come to
them somehow like a miracle. Until now, diabetics, for example, were faced
with two choices: eat the fake foods that taste nothing like the real thing,
or pass. Sure, a man with a heart disease will not be able to eat a steak,
but maybe he will be allowed to eat the French fries to go with it if they
are prepared with Olean (Olestra). Olean is a fat derivative that
chemically resembles real fat, with the exception that is much bigger,
cannot be absorbed by the organism and therefore, passes right through the
digestive .....
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Smoking Banana Peels
Number of words: 259 - Number of pages: 1.... California to the ' Berkeley Barb ' and explained how to
smoke a banana peel to get high. First you have to peel the banana peel and then
scrape the white material that is next to the peel out . You then must put this
white material in the oven at 200 Degrees C. until it is dry then roll it into a
cigarette. A bunch of other hippie papers copied the instructions and it became
a craze and even TIME and NEWSWEEK wrote about it.
Someone I know says he smoked banana peels once but he was "tripping" on
mushrooms at the time so he didn't know if it made him high or not. A friend of
mine tried smoking banana pe .....
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Diabetes
Number of words: 373 - Number of pages: 2.... loose a lot of weight and they have fatigue.
Your blood becomes acidic and respiration becomes abnormal. People usually die
from diabetic coma until they figured out how to use insulin therapy. In both
forms it could cause a kidney disease from high blood sugar levels; bad sight
from blood vessels in eyes rupturing, less blood going to the limbs could make
them have to cut them off. They have high blood pressure which increases heart
attacks and strokes in diabetes too. Type II
This type is found in mostly in people over 40 it progresses slowly
unlike typ .....
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Factors That Influence Drug Addiction
Number of words: 855 - Number of pages: 4.... process. Simply stated, if drugs and/or alcohol did not exist there couldn’t conceivably be a drug addiction. Nevertheless, drugs and alcohol do exist, so it isn’t their existence that effects the addiction, but how readily available to the addict each substance is. The Vietnam Veterans, who used heroin during the war, are an excellent example of how availability strengthens the addiction process. Opiates were very easy to obtain in Vietnam, and as a result ten percent of our soldiers tested positive for heroine use during the war. Upon their return hom .....
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AIDS
Number of words: 683 - Number of pages: 3.... the leading cause of death among adults, individuals are now taking more precautions with sexual intercourse, and medical facilities are screening blood more thoroughly. Even though HIV (Human Immune deficiency Virus) can be transmitted through sharing of non sterilize needles and syringes, sexual intercourse, blood transfusion, and through most bodily fluids, it is not transmitted through casual contact or by biting or blood sucking insects.
Causes
HIV is primarily a sexually transmitted disease, it is transmitted by both homosexual and bisexual and heterosex .....
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