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Cancer
Number of words: 3410 - Number of pages: 13.... Sloan-Kettering Cancer
Center was able to get a photo of the gene, and she notices that when the
disease (cancer) is forming, rogue molecules are present that keep it from
performing its good deeds. There have since been 5,200 studies on p53 and
researchers are sure it will be a major discovery.
The p53's function is as the director to control damage within the
cell. When it is healthy, normal cells keep them around and they continue
to degrade and replenish themselves. If a high alert is set in the cell
due to invaders such as radiation, chemotherapy carcinogens, or
chemotherapy d .....
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Demanding Greatness: Steroid Use
Number of words: 1499 - Number of pages: 6.... on winning. They develop an aggressive training style which would lead to drugs such as steroids.3
“There are many reasons why people use steroids. But the two main ones are to excel in athletic competition and to look more like one’s ideal of a perfect body.”4 Many athletes are representing their school, state, or territory they come from at the competitions they are involved with. Most of these competitors don’t want to let down their fans in fear of rejection of being classified as a loser. Athletes might turn to drugs if they are looking to run faster, longer or to obtai .....
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Euthanasia - Immoral Or Human Right?
Number of words: 504 - Number of pages: 2.... which paralyses him from neck
and down, and is doomed to sit in a wheelchair for the rest of his life, he
knows that he will be 100% dependant on the ones that care for him, his
lived ones, forever. It can also be mentioned that the life quality of a
terminally ill patient, gets reduced a lot. Never being able to walk again,
never being able to talk to your children again, never being able to go
shopping, swimming, playing, driving etc. must be terrible for anyone. The
whole situation only gets worse, if the patient himself, can see that his
condition is worsening, and only time keeps his .....
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Rabies
Number of words: 619 - Number of pages: 3.... on the foot will have a much
lengthier incubation period than a facial bite would. This period may last from
two weeks to six months, and often the original wound will have healed and been
forgotten by the time symptoms begin to occur.
Symptoms in humans present themselves in one of two forms: ‘furious rabies', or ‘
dumb rabies'. The former is called such because of the severe nature and range
of the symptoms. The virus, upon reaching the CNS will present the person with
headache, fever, irritability, restlessness and anxiety. Progression may occur
on to muscle pains, excessive sali .....
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Leukemia
Number of words: 940 - Number of pages: 4.... and the blood platelets. The uncontrolled growth of the abnormal
white cells produces a tendency to unstop bleeding, the risk of getting serious
infection in the wounds, and a very small possibility of obstruction of the
blood vessels.
Treatment of these Leukemias include chemotherapy with alkylafing agents,
or antimetabodies that suppress the growth of abnormal white cells. Another
treatment of some kind would be the x-ray or the administration or radioactive
substances, or radiophosphorus, may be used. After treatment these diseases may
last for many years. Age of the person diagnos .....
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What's Wrong With Our Food And Drugs?
Number of words: 344 - Number of pages: 2.... % alcohol. Something there
doesn't sound right. People are being given the same treatment for epilepsy and
all sorts of other disorders. How is alcohol going to help someone that has
epilepsy? The only thing these nonsense treatments are doing is making the
physical ailments that these people have worse. If you were terribly sick do do
you think alcohol would cure you? That's what I thought too. We need to put
some money into researching and developing some worthwhile cures that will
actually do something.
I have now informed you of two major problems that this nation faces and
if so .....
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The Dark Side Of A Wonder Drug-A Selected Collection Of Testimony On The Safety Of Ritalin
Number of words: 1725 - Number of pages: 7.... pharmacies. At one
Ottawa-area board of education, the number of medications dispensed to students
by office administrators has increased 20 per cent over the past 18 months. A
good chunk of those pills are Ritalin. "We always worry that we're a half-step
away from giving someone the wrong dosage," says John Beatty, the board's
superintendent of school operations(Ritalin Boy). "In certain school systems
there's been a teacher who has seen it work and they'll start suggesting it as
an option for all children who are acting out," said Linda Budd, a St. Paul,
Minn., psychologist who has written .....
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Aspirin
Number of words: 366 - Number of pages: 2.... It is precisely the power
of the aspirin that makes it effective against heart attacks and strokes that
are caused by clots. I think that you should not take aspirin for preventing any
heart attacks or strokes or etc.… for a reason and that reason is that it may
cause another hazard upon you while you are trying to prevent one happening to
you. Digestive track - The way food is digested. Gastrointestinal - Of relating
to, affecting, or including both stomach and intestine. Duodenum - The first
part of the small intestine extending from the pylorus to the jejunum. Ulcer -
An open sore on t .....
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Nursing: Lifting, Transferring And Positioning Of Patients
Number of words: 2053 - Number of pages: 8.... Communication is an important part of the lifting process as the nurse
should elicit information from the client to find out how and when they prefer
to be moved. This allows the patient to be involved in the decision making
process and be fully aware of what is occurring. By communicating with the
client, the nurse is also aware of whether or not the patient is experiencing
any discomfort during or after the lift.
The actions of lifting, transferring or positioning need to be completed for
numerous reasons, including relief of pressure points. Due to the patient being
in one .....
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Hemophilia
Number of words: 341 - Number of pages: 2.... 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 disorder. Currently,
approximately one in every 10,000 people in all parts of the world suffers from
hemophilia. This blood relate .....
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