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Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus Gestational Diabetes
1,238 wordsDiabetes mellitus is a group of diseases characterized by high levels of blood glucose resulting from defects in insulin secretion, insulin action, or both. Diabetes can be associated with serious complications and premature death, but persons with diabetes can take measures to reduce the likelihood of such occurrences. 15. 7 million people -- 5. 9 % of the population -- have diabetes. But only 10. 3 million people are diagnosed so that leaves 5. 4 million people not diagnosed. Studies have foun...
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Blood Sugar Levels Kill Cancer Cells
1,114 words... x-rays are taken. These pictures aid the surgeon by helping he or she plan the operation. The final test is a laparoscopy. A surgeon guides a small camera through a half-inch incision in the abdomen. The organs in the abdomen can then be examined directly. This is done to find out if the pancreatic tumor has spread to other organs or structures. But what happens if your tumor cannot be surgically removed? There are three other forms of treatment other than surgery for pancreatic cancer. One ...
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Fetus Produces Antibodies Fetus Produces Antibodies Specific Toxoplasmosis
1,061 wordsI will be addressing the possible immunological barriers that may be involved with challenge to infection of Toxoplasmosa gondii, the protozoan that causes toxoplasmosis. It is widely known that toxoplasmosis is a devastating disease, with often drastic consequences upon infection. In pregnant mothers, these consequences can be very horrid. Such effects are more felt by the unborn fetus than by the mother. These effects include abortion, premature birth, and severe growth retardation (Creamy et....
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Spina Bifida Life Threatening
828 wordsFetal surgery itself is a relatively new procedure with only a few hundred attempts world wide. Because of the risk of inducing preterm labor and delivering so early in the pregnancy, fetal surgery traditionally was reserved for life- threatening circumstances. While spina bifida is not necessarily life- threatening, it is the most common debilitating birth defect, diagnosed in about one of every 1, 000 here in the US. Babies born with spina bifida typically experience one or more lifelong and a...
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Surrogate Motherhood Birth Defects
1,908 wordsMotherhood - Nine Months vs. A Lifetime "You " re about ten meters dilated it's time to push!" You grab hold onto your husband's hand a little tighter. Take a deep breath and the labor process begins. This is a common everyday scenario that happens thousands of times a day in hospitals all over the world. Yet sometimes, women will never be able to go through this process, due to circumstances beyond their control. Imagine never being able to have a child. Imagine infertility. Month after month, ...
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Digestive Juices Interesting Facts
1,043 wordsName and Functions The part I researched, which has only one name, is the pancreas. The pancreas is an organ that produces digestive juices necessary to break down food. It also produces insulin and glucagons. Insulin and glucagons are two hormones needed to break down sugar and to regulate our metabolism. The pancreas provides a lot of power to the body. For example, it allows you to eat many foods and allows your body to feed your cells the energy they need. It also allows you to exercise with...
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Artificial Insemination Infertile Couples
1,317 wordsThe Two Sides to Artificial Insemination In this paper I will try to explain what the artificial insemination is and also will try to show two sides of the artificial insemination. Before Ill start to explain pros and cons of the artificial insemination I want to give definition to it. Im deeply convinced that it will help to build my thesis. So according to the Wikipedia Artificial insemination (AI) is when sperm is placed into a female's ovarian follicle (intra follicular), uterus (intrauterin...
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Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer Clone Human Beings
1,620 wordsThe news of the successful cloning of an adult sheep-in which the sheep's DNA was inserted into an unfertilized sheep egg to produce a lamb with identical DNA-has generated an outpouring of ethical concerns. These concerns are not about Dolly, the now famous sheep, nor even about the considerable impact cloning may have on the animal breeding industry, but rather about the possibility of cloning humans. For the most part, however, the ethical concerns being raised are exaggerated and misplaced, ...
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Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus Blood Glucose Levels
925 wordsDiabetes mellitus is a disorder caused by decreased production of insulin, or by decreased ability to use insulin. Insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas that is necessary for cells to be able to use blood sugar. The cause of diabetes mellitus is unknown, but heredity and diet are believed to play a role in its development. Diabetes results when the pancreas produces insufficient amounts of insulin to meet the bodys needs. It can also result when the pancreas produces insulin, but the cel...
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Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus Hispanic Whites
2,204 wordsDiabetes mellitus is a group of diseases characterized by high levels of blood glucose resulting from defects in insulin secretion, insulin action, or both. Diabetes can be associated with serious complications and premature death, but persons with diabetes can take measures to reduce the likelihood of such occurrences. Most of the food we eat is turned into glucose, or sugar, for our bodies to use for energy. The pancreas, an organ that lies near the stomach, makes a hormone called insulin to h...
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Type 1 Diabetes Type 2 Diabetes
1,356 wordsNearly 16 million people in the United States nearly one out of every 17 people have diabetes. And about 1, 800 new cases are diagnosed each day. Technically, this disease is known as diabetes mellitus, diabetes from the Greek for excessive urination, a symptom the ancients noticed, and mellitus, from the Latin for honey diabetic urine is filled with sugar and is sweet. There are three types of diabetes: type 1, type 2, and gestational diabetes. All of them are a little different. But everyone w...
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