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Sickle Cell Disease
Number of words: 1403 - Number of pages: 6.... anemia by speeding up destruction of red blood cells or reducing red blood cell production. Two of the most common forms of are sickle cell anemia (SS disease) and sickle "C" disease. Sickle beta thalassemia is a less common form of . The effects of vary greatly from one person to the next. Some affected people rarely see their doctors for sickle cell-related complaints; others may be hospitalized frequently.
Infants and young children with sickle cell disease are especially vulnerable to severe bacterial infections, such as those that cause meningitis and pneumonia. Infections are the .....
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Leprosy
Number of words: 1266 - Number of pages: 5.... When the bacteria affects the nerves, they become swollen and numb which causes a loss of sensation in that particular area (2). Due to this loss of feeling sufferers are more susceptible to burns and other injuries. These injuries often become infected and turn into ulcers. When these remain untreated the final result may be the loss of an appendage ( 1). Patches of skin that have been affected will have a look similar to that of ringworm (A Brief 2). These patches are denoted by a raised circular area, with reddened borders and a loss of color within (2). If remains untreated it may .....
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Tobacco: Opposing Viewpoints
Number of words: 1789 - Number of pages: 7.... China where tobacco sellers were decapitated.
Cigarette smoking did not become popular until the late eighteen hundreds. Although the U.S. was not the first country to use cigarettes, in eighteen eighty three American James Bonsack developed a cigarette rolling machine. Where a skilled cigarette roller could roll about four hundred cigarettes per day, the cigarette machine could produce one hundred and twenty thousand. Mass production also caused the price of a pack of cigarettes to be cut in half.
With a “smoking epidemic” on our hands, it was only a matter of time before an anti- .....
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Why I Believe In Voluntary Euthanasia
Number of words: 1874 - Number of pages: 7.... by giving all the dead person's money and goods to the
government.) Attempted suicide is no longer a crime, although under health
laws a person can in most states be forcibly placed in a psychiatric
hospital for three days for evaluation.
But giving assistance in suicide remains a crime, except in the
Netherlands in recent times under certain conditions, and it has never been
a crime in Switzerland, Germany, Norway and Uruguay. The rest of the world
punishes assistance in suicide for both the mentally ill and the terminally
ill, although the state of Oregon recently (Nov. l994 .....
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Definition Of Job Burn Out
Number of words: 2245 - Number of pages: 9.... lawyers, nurses and doctors, who often spend large amounts of time in close, and sometimes highly emotional, contact with their clients (Schaufeli & Buunk, 1996). In some workplace situations people do not have all the resources they need, such as time, to do the job as well as they would like. If the employee has a high level of emotional involvement with the job this situation can lead to job burn out; the person is frustrated because they would like to do a better job but they are unable to.
Schaufeli and Buunk (1996) clarify the difference, between the general term stress and the mor .....
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Alcoholism
Number of words: 487 - Number of pages: 2.... use. Studies indicate that children of alcoholics have an increased risk of even when they have no exposure to drinking parents.
Next, the effects of alcohol on the human body depend on the amount of alcohol in the blood. The higher the alcohol content of the beverage, the more alcohol will enter the bloodstream. The amount and type of food in the stomach also affect the absorption rate; drinking when the stomach is filled is less intoxicating, because foods delay alcohol absorption rate. Studies indicate that sex is a factor. Excessive drinking that may range from five to thirty years h .....
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Legalization Of Abortion
Number of words: 959 - Number of pages: 4.... from the case of Roe v. Wade.
The Supreme Court interrupted that by the ninth and fourteenth amendments that
a woman has the right to an abortion. The court that day, however, did not rule
when a life begins for a human. If society is to assume that a fetus is a human
the second it leaves the uterus, then what is the unborn baby three minutes
from birth , a monkey. When an unborn baby is aborted, society must realize that
an organ was not taken out, but a living human being. This would make abortion
wrong because according to law, no one has the right to take away anther's life.
With ma .....
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Women's Right To Choose Abortion
Number of words: 374 - Number of pages: 2.... care system isn't any
better. Only a small percentage of the children are adopted by suitable
parents. But the rest remain in the foster care system, where there is
little or no personal care. In both cases, the child has a poor education
because of the lack of attention and discipline. He grows up to be
unproductive individual or a menace to society. Many get involved in drugs
and crimes. These individuals are also very violent, lacking morality due
small amount of care they received themselves. In the long run, not only
does the child suffer but also society, who has to tolerate his .....
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Heart Cells
Number of words: 429 - Number of pages: 2.... develop medical treatments to enhance cell division and restore healthy heart muscle. It is too soon, however, to know to what extent such treatments might repair damaged hearts, such as those suffering congenital heart disease.
Scientist and researchers at the University of Udine in Italy, studied hearts removed from 27 people who had received transplants. The researchers stained slices of heart tissue half a micrometer thick and used a confocal microscope to count the individual cell nuclei caught in the process of division. Judging from these samples, They found that a estimate of 131 t .....
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AIDS/HIV
Number of words: 626 - Number of pages: 3.... the body¹s immune system so
it is sensitive to infection. The AIDS virus primarily attacks the T
lymphocytes, which are a main part of the immune system. The virus is also
incubated in cells called macrophages, where it is accidentally sent to other,
healthy cells in the body like neurons and lymphatic cells. After HIV is
contracted, the person looks and feels healthy for up to 20 years before
symptoms start occurring. During this time, the person can give the virus to
another even though it cannot be detected by sight or smell. Usually, symptoms
start developing within 1 to 2 years. .....
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