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Term Papers on Health and Medicine
Cystic Fibrosis
Number of words: 493 - Number of pages: 2.... aerosols that relieve constriction of the airways. Physical therapy
Is used to help patients cough up the obstructing mucus. Intestinal obstruction,
Which occurs mostly in infancy, may require surgery.
In 1989, researchers fond the abnormal gene that causes cystic fibrosis.
This gene is located on chromosome 7 . A person who has two cystic fibrosis
Genes has the disease . A person that carries one of the genes does not have the
Genetic disease, but is a carrier.
The symptoms of cystic fibrosis sometimes occur immediately after birth.
Mucus secretions may a .....
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Are You A Shopaholic?
Number of words: 708 - Number of pages: 3.... to give their mood a lift. They got their support from shop
assis-tants. This may be one way of buying social support.
Shopaholics
Shopaholics is becoming a more and more frequently known disease. It is not only
found in the US, but all over the world including Denmark. In Britain a nation
wide survey revealed that addicts will stop at nothing to found their desire to
spend money. They will do anything from stealing to prosti-tution. One out of
20 adults is found to be obsessed by spending. But why do people become sho-
paholics? I think when you are bei .....
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Blood And Excerise
Number of words: 1269 - Number of pages: 5.... stream to form
glucose.
Lactate is Good
As coach and athlete you must learn how to teach the body to handle lactic acid.
It is imperative, if you want successes in today's highly competitive field of
athletics to train your muscles, body and mind to accomplish gains in
performance even in the presence of lactic acid. Coaches and athletes should
design training programs with this being a primary focus. This is done by two
basic components of training. Long Slow Distance (LSD) training beyond the
normal racing distance, will develop tissue enzyme adaptation .....
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Premature Infancy
Number of words: 1314 - Number of pages: 5.... lose
control of its actions.
The main underdeveloped parts of a premature baby are its organs,
chiefly the lungs and the brain. The lungs are developed in the last few weeks
of pregnancy, and if the child is born before the thirty sixth week, he/she may
require some special attention. Usually, the child is monitored closely for
the first few weeks of its life, in order to make sure there is no problems
with the breathing or any other function of its body. The premature baby will
probably need supplemental oxygen to help it through the early stages, but
rare .....
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Reversing The Aging Process, Should We?
Number of words: 1620 - Number of pages: 6.... need to affect others, be it through the
vises of war, power, manipulation or politics. However man’s natural tendency to
play G-d has reached it’s final manifestation. By attempting to slow down the
aging process man is using himself as the ultimate canvas, to play the role of
the omnipotent.
Research into the process of aging began in 1961(Rose, Technology Review:64).
Since then a great deal of time, money and effort have been appropriated into
discovering the causes of aging, it can therefore be inferred that humanity has
an almost "personal" interest in .....
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Hemophilia
Number of words: 341 - Number of pages: 2.... are able to be affected
by hemophilia. Inheritance is controlled by a recessive sex-linked factor
carried by the mother on the X chromosome. There is a fifty percent chance that
the sons of a female carrier will have hemophilia. There also is a fifty
percent chance that the daughters of a female carrier will be carriers of
hemophilia. In addition, all daughters of men with hemophilia are carriers, but
his sons are unaffected. Men cannot transmit hemophilia, and female carriers
are free of the disease.
Hemophilia is the most common hereditary blood di .....
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Depression
Number of words: 559 - Number of pages: 3.... depressed; feeling as if your life is dreary and unlikely to improve;
had crying spells; become irritated over little things that didn't used to
bother you; find you no longer enjoy hobbies and activities that once made you
happy; feel a lack of self-confidence or feeling like a failure; lost your
appetite, or are eating more than usual; have had trouble sleeping, or been
sleeping too much; had trouble concentrating and making decisions; and thought
about death and/or suicide.
Knowing the causes for depression can help depressed people, friends,
family understan .....
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Alcohol: Most Used And Abused Drug
Number of words: 2126 - Number of pages: 8.... adults. Alcoholism, like any illness, can strike at any age. Ten percent of
the adult drinkers in the U.S are considered alcoholics or at least experience
drinking problems to some degree. Surveys have shown that more than one out of
three Americans have a personal friend or relative who has had a drinking
problem for ten years or longer. Almost two out of three Americans report that
they know someone who drinks too much. It is estimated that there are 18
million alcoholic or problem drinkers in the U.S. For every alcoholic there are
at least four o .....
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