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Term Papers on Health and Medicine
Skin Cancer: “What Disease Am I”
Number of words: 429 - Number of pages: 2.... scaly patches. Squamous cell carcinoma is also common to Caucasians.
It is found on the rim of the ear, the face, the lips and mouth. It is
rarely found on dark skinned people. It will develop into large masses
unlike basal cell carcinoma, it can spread to other parts of the body. It
is estimated that there are 2,300 deaths from squamous cell carcinoma every
year.
Another type of this cancer is malignant melanoma. Malignant
melanoma is the most harmful. It develops on about 32,000 Americans
annually. Every year are estimated 6,800 Americans will di .....
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The Trials Of Alcohol
Number of words: 588 - Number of pages: 3.... my brain, and take my money. By drinking, all of my senses are whittled down next to nothing. When that happens, I am not able to do anything, especially study and that’s what I am at college for. Another thing that alcohol will do to me is it will subject me too memory loss. I think its common sense that after a night of drinking it is very hard to remember what you did or what you didn’t do. Alcohol also has the ability to take my money and make me poor. If I were to allow myself to be buying alcohol on a steady basis, it will become a great way for me .....
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Mad Cow's Disease And Mad Man
Number of words: 1204 - Number of pages: 5.... its' destructive ways.
It all started 200 years ago, with a disease known as "Scrapie". Scrapie is a naturally occurring disease of sheep found in many parts of the world and is one kind of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (TSE) that affects a sheep's nervous system. Scrapie's main target organ is the brain but may infect other tissues such as the spinal cord, the lymphatic system, the intestines and eyes. What does sheep have to do with not being able to eat a steak you ask? In 1986, British scientist discovered Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE .....
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Diseases: Sex Linked And Sex Influenced
Number of words: 3011 - Number of pages: 11.... that can
not produce a protein called dystrophins (Science News 380). In patients of
hemophilia, there is a deficiency of a protein needed for blood clotting,
causing this hereditary bleeding disorder. In red/green color blindness, the
broadest form of color blindness that affects six percent of the population, the
cones in the retina that receive green light do not function properly. Unlike
sex linked diseases, sex influenced diseases are not reserved solely for the
male. However, the diseases occur in males much more frequently than in females.
This is becau .....
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Blood Alcohol Level (BAL)
Number of words: 540 - Number of pages: 2.... Guide to Responsible Drinking (1982):
.02 MELLOW FEELING. SLIGHT BODY WARMTH. LESS INHIBITED.
.05 NOTICEABLE RELAXATION. LESS ALERT. LESS SELF-FOCUSED. COORDINATION
IMPAIRMENT BEGINS.
.08 DRUNK DRIVING LIMIT. DEFINITE IMPAIRMENT IN COORDINATION AND JUDGMENT.
.10 NOISY. POSSIBLE EMBARRASSING BEHAVIOR. MOOD SWINGS. REDUCTION IN REACTION
TIME.
.15 IMPAIRED BALANCE AND MOVEMENT. CLEARLY DRUNK.
.30 MANY PASS OUT.
.40 MOST PASS OUT; SOME DIE.
.50 BREATHING STOPS. MANY DIE.
As can be seen, the most reliably pleasurable effects of alco .....
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Veterinary Medicine
Number of words: 523 - Number of pages: 2.... treatment of certian populations such as
horses, cattle, poultry, or zoo animals. A small number of
veterinarians are employed as managers of large feedlots for beef -
cattle, large dairy cattle operations, and many of the increasingly
large poultry farms. A few veterinarians are now becoming involved in
embryo transfer work, in which fertilized eggs are removed from
superior donors and transferred into the uterus of a cow of lesser
genetic qualities.
A minimum of six years of study after high school graduation
is usually required for a student to become a .....
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Tobacco In America
Number of words: 708 - Number of pages: 3.... but cigarettes are not harmless. They have to know that their ads
are influencing the youth under 18 to begin smoking"(Breo). Researchers at the
Medical College of Georgia report that almost as many 6-year olds recognize Joe
Camel as know Mickey Mouse (Breo). That is very shocking information for any
parent to hear.
The industry denies that these symbols target people under 21 and claim that
their advertising goal is simply to promote brand switching and loyalty. Many
people disagree with this statement such as Illinois Rep. Richard Durbin who
states " .....
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The Digestive System
Number of words: 420 - Number of pages: 2.... other organs that help you break up food like you teeth, your tongue, liver and your pancreas.
The Esophagus is your tube that your food goes down into the stomach. If we didn't have an esophagus we probley wouldn't be alive. Your stomach is your main organ because it is the thing that makes your food into smaller units and you would die if you didn't have a stomach. Enzyme is a kind of protein that speeds up chemical reactions in the body. If we didn't have enzyme everybody would be walking 1 mile an hour and you wouldn't have any energy. The Liver is an organ .....
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