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Term Papers on Health and Medicine
Cystic Fibrosis Of The Pancreas
Number of words: 410 - Number of pages: 2.... as a recessive trait. In families where both parents ae carriers,
approximately 25% of all the offspring will have the diswase, although the
incidence may vary from one family to the next. The disease is relatively
common to Caucasions, usually among Negroes, and very rare in Mongolians.
In the United States, about 1 in every 2000 children is born with the
disease, and 5% of the population are carriers. In the days before
antibiotics, patients succumbed to bronchopheumonia or malnutrition, and
the underlying cause was not recognized. Cystic fibrosis is now .....
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The Dangers Of Smoking
Number of words: 696 - Number of pages: 3.... for a supposedly educated society such as ours.
Two other dangers that relate to this habit are passive smoking and underage smokers. Since 1964 there have been an estimated 3000 deaths caused by second hand smoke. This is kind of scary to me, considering how many firends that I hang out with that smoke. Another problem is that young people start smoking cigarettes way too early. Around 80% of adult smokers said that they started to smoke sometime before their 18 birth day. The reason that this is such a big problem is that nearly 3000 children between the .....
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For Information On The Medical Uses Of Marijuana
Number of words: 1562 - Number of pages: 6.... Americans per year, cannabis kills 0 per year [3].
When we know the facts we can understand why in 1988, after extensive
review of the scientific literature, the DEA's own administrative judge
Frances Young concluded that ``Marijuana is one of the safest
therapeutically active substances know to man.'' [4]
Opponents of legal cannabis access would have us believe that there is not
enough research available to determine its safety. Nothing could be
further from the truth. Cannabis is one of the most thoroughly researched
drugs in history, and the evidence g .....
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Small Pox
Number of words: 1780 - Number of pages: 7.... sneezes, also by the mouth where particles are once again
ejected when the victim coughs. The disease can be transmitted by dried small
pox scabs and through materials the infected person has come in contact with.
The virus is reproduced in the lymphoid tissue and released into the body.
Virus reproduction begins when the virion comes into contact with a suitable
host cell. The virus must interact with a receptor on the cell surface. The
infectious cycle usually consists of two stages. The first stage makes the
proteins necessary for the protein to form. Th .....
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Understanding Panic Disorders
Number of words: 1608 - Number of pages: 6.... on anxiety disorder, a group of illnesses. The program's
purpose is to educate the public and health care professionals about the
disorder and encourage people with it to obtain effective treatments. To
continue , in a panic disorder, brief episodes of intense fear are
accompanied by multiple physical symptoms (such as heart palpitations and
dizziness) that occur repeatedly and unexpectedly in the absence of any
external threat. These “panic attacks,” which are the hallmark of panic
disorder, are believed to occur when the brain's normal mechanism for
react .....
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No-Calorie Powder May Substitute For Food's Fat
Number of words: 383 - Number of pages: 2.... can cause gastrointestinal distress and take vitamins and carotenoids
out of the body. The new substitute does not have those affects. Inglett says
that you should eat more of the kind of fibers that make up Z-Trim to reduce
the chances of getting intestinal disorders.
But there are some people who argue with Inglett's theory on his new
substitute. "I wouldn't expect Z-Trim to have the same kinds of problems as
olestra," says Margo Wootan, a senior scientist at the Center for Science in the
Public Interest in Washington, D.C. "Fiber is already found in .....
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Christian Science
Number of words: 948 - Number of pages: 4.... was established by God that is witnessed through Jesus Christ's
healing of the sick. Christian Science healing comes through scientific
prayer, or spiritual communion with God. Prayer is used to recognize “a
patient's direct access to God's love through the consistent operation of
God's law of health and wholeness on his behalf. It knows God, or divine
Mind, as the only healer. It brings the transforming action of Christ, the
idea of divine Love, to the patient's consciousness. A transformation or
spiritualization of a patient's thoughts changes his condition” .....
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Treatments Of Huntington's Disease
Number of words: 292 - Number of pages: 2.... protein it produces, a larger than normal molecule they called huntingtin that was unlike any protein previously identified. The question that they did not know was what either the healthy huntingtin protein or its aberrant form does in a cell. Recently, a team from Johns Hopkins University found a second protein called HAP-1, that attaches to the huntingtin molecule only in the brain. The characteristics of this second protein has an interesting feature- it binds much more tightly to defective huntingtin than to the healthy from, and it appears that this tightly bound complex causes damage to brain cel .....
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