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York Mcgraw Hill W B Saunders
1,482 words
Aids by sean ross You can get tested for HIV in a
number of locations -- including public clinics,
AIDS organizations, physicians' offices, and
hospitals. Many locations give the test for free.
You can choose between anonymous tests, in which
you do not give your name to the HealthCare
provider, or confidential tests, in which you do
give your name. Test sites should provide trained
counselors who can offer you support and guidance,
no matter what the test result. (Balch- 97) An HIV
test looks f...
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Central Nervous System Spinal Cord
2,118 words
... its. The initial symptom of MS is often
blurred or double vision, red-green color
distortion, or even blindness in one eye.
(Brunnscheiler) Inexplicably, visual problems tend
to clear up in the later stages of MS.
Inflammatory problems of the optic nerve may be
diagnosed as retro bulbar or optic neuritis.
Fifty-five percent of MS patients will have an
attack of optic neuritis at some time or other and
it will be the first symptom of MS in
approximately 15 percent. This has led to general
rec...
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Late 19 Th Century Law Of Nature
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Why is AIDS so difficult to cure? How does the
AIDS virus attack the body? In 1979, the first
reported AIDS case occurred in New York, and by
mid-June 1981, unusual immune system failure among
gay men was surfacing in the United States. The
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) initially name
the disease GRID, or gay-related immune
deficiency, because it was prominently found among
homosexuals. It appeared to be a
lifestyle-associated illness, linked to excessive
stress to the immune system. Researc...
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Protease Inhibitors Opportunistic Infections
1,192 words
A disease is an abnormality of an animal or plant,
caused by a pathogenic organism. Therefore,
disease resistance is the ability to withstand the
attack of these pathogens and remain virtually
unaffected. The disease may be infectious
(communicable), caused by invading organisms that
live parasitically on or within the body. The
disease causing organisms include viruses, some
bacteria and certain other organisms that may be
passed from person to person e. g. Plasmodium that
causes malaria. Other...
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Infected With Hiv Living With Hiv
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HIV and AIDS are one of the leading causes of
death among 24 to 45 year olds and yet so many
Americans seem to know nothing about it. So many
people in the world believe HIV and AIDS are the
same thing, but they are sadly mistaken. HIV is a
virus. The letters stand for Human Immunodefiency
Virus. HIV is a virus that attacks your immune
system. What it attacks are important
immune-system cells called T-cells. HIV is a
retrovirus, which means it is slow moving. By
attacking and killing the immune ...
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High Blood Pressure Effects Of Stress
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When Allah desires to guide someone, He expands
his breast to Islam. When He desires to misguide
someone, He makes his breast narrow and
constricted as if he were climbing up into the
sky. That is how Allah defiles those who have no
faith. (Qur " an, 6: 125) The failure of
irreligious people in submitting themselves to
Allah causes them to be in a constant state of
ill-ease, anxiety and stress. As a consequence,
they are afflicted by various psychological
illnesses which reveal themselves in the...
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Human Immunodeficiency Virus Spread Of Aids
1,781 words
AIDS in the Geriatric Community Acquired immune
deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, is a recently
recognized disease. It is caused by infection with
the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). AIDS is a
complicated illness that may involve several
phases. It is caused by a virus that can be passed
from person to person. AIDS impairs the human
body's immune system -- the system is responsible
for warding off disease -- and leaves the victim
susceptible to various infections. AIDS was first
conclusively ide...
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Tay Sachs Disease White Blood Cells
2,021 words
... would fatally digest itself away. Some of
these enzymes break down proteins, others attack
fats, and still others disassemble the nucleic
acids that make up DNA and RNA (Bourne, 1992, p.
123). Lynosomes don't always work right. When they
fail, the result can be catastrophic disease. In
Tay-Sachs disease, for example, victims have
inherited a faulty gene, which leads to a
defective enzyme or no enzyme at all. As a result
certain undigested molecules accumulate in the
lysosomes, gradually lead...
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Cd 4 Cells Sexual Intercourse
986 words
The war on AIDS A relatively new incurable disease
has shaken the world. Millions of people are
already dead because of it. The name for it is
AIDS. Nowadays there are an estimated 42 million
people living with HIV or AIDS world-wide, and
more than 3 million die every year from
AIDS-related illnesses. HIV is always far more
widespread than all studies indicate. Therefore it
is important to know as much as possible in order
to prevent it. AIDS has become one of the most
serious, deadly diseases i...
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White Blood Cells Loss Of Appetite
2,169 words
Chemotherapy: The treatment of disease with drugs
that directly poison the diseased organism. Most
often referred to for cancer treatment, where
powerful drugs with potentially sever side effects
are used to eliminate or contain the spread of
tumors. In treating physical diseases, probably
the most common form of therapy in Western
medicine is chemotherapy, or drug therapy. Some
physical conditions, where chemotherapy is not the
best option, can be corrected through surgery
while others may be e...
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American Lung Association Respiratory Infections
2,488 words
The Differences And Similarities Of Pneumonia
AndThe Differences And Similarities Of Pneumonia
And Tuberculosis The Differences and Similarities
of Pneumonia and Tuberculosis Pneumonia and
tuberculosis have been plaguing the citizens of
the world for centuries causing millions of
deaths. This occurred until the creation and use
of antibiotics become more widely available. These
two respiratory infections have many differences,
which include their etiology, incidence and
prevalence, and many simi...
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Short Term Memory Evidence That Marijuana
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The Benefits Of Marijuana Are you sick of hearing
your girlfriend nagging you about letting go of
your pot pastime? Have you been hearing a lot of
negative things about the use of marijuana lately?
Would you like to know what the real deal is
behind the use of this infamous drug? Then read on
because youre in for a surprise. One of the
saddest things in North America is the lack of
clinical trials on marijuana use. Many other
countries in the world have already performed such
tests in order to d...
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American Cancer Society Anti Emetic
1,821 words
Hubert L. Black Sociology 105 Sembach April 10,
2001 Section A Should Marijuana Be Used As A
Medicine? If we are think about people who have a
serious medical problem that inflicts constant
physical and mental pain do we ask ourselves
theses questions? How much pain are they going
through? What is their threshold? What is its
frequency? How doest it effect their life, and are
they terminally ill? How can we help them? Theses
questions helped researchers arrive at one
conclusion of using Marijuan...
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Side Effects Ha Ha
3,952 words
Holistic Body Healing Through Homeopathy Eeeww you
just threw up on me! my friend yelled, as my vomit
splattered to the ground. Gross, look at that! Ha,
ha, ha! yelled a boy, as the whole school looked
at me and laughed. It was my first day of
intermediate school and I had a cold the night
before. That morning before school started, I took
some antibiotics so I would fell better and have a
fun day at school. To my surprise, the medicine
did not make me feel better. In fact, it made me
feel even ...
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Average Life Span Normal Body Weight
1,870 words
Contents Introduction: I. Why do We Age A.
Theories of Aging II. What is Longevity A. Life
Span and Life Expectancy III. What determines
Longevity III. Why Don? t Most Americans Live Past
the Average Life Expectancy IV. Leading Causes Of
Death (table) V. What Do We Do to Live Longer
Conclusion: Introduction What is the fear of most
humans? The fear is aging and death. In this paper
you will find out a lot about aging. You will
learn what longevity is, what determines it, the
average length of li...
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Psychological Stress High Levels
454 words
Science News, March 27, 1999 People who feel
unable to deal with life? s stresses display an
exaggerated immune reaction that may intensify
their sneezing, soughing, and other physical
symptoms once they? ve contracted a common virus,
a new study suggests. However, the researchers
have not yet confirmed whether this particular
immune response-a sharp rise in the production of
a chemical messenger known as interleukin- 6 (IL-
6) -magnifies childlike respiratory symptoms or
occurs in response to t...
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Protease Inhibitors Opportunistic Infections
1,185 words
A disease is an abnormality of an animal or plant,
caused by a pathogenic organism. Therefore,
disease resistance is the ability to withstand the
attack of these pathogens and remain virtually
unaffected. The disease may be infectious
(communicable), caused by invading organisms that
live parasitically on or within the body. The
disease causing organisms include viruses, some
bacteria and certain other organisms that may be
passed from person to person? e. g. Plasmodium
that causes malaria. Othe...
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Specific Weapons Immune System Cells
436 words
You live in a world of germs and youre at war.
Your bodys constant, warm environment, rich in
nutrients, is an ideal home, where tiny organisms
can thrive. Their aim is to get in. Your bodys job
is to keep them out. Through advances in cancer
research, scientists now believe more than 100
million immune cells exist. For every virus or
bacterium, there seems to be an immune cell
specifically designed to hunt down and destroy it.
But what happens when you are born without this
ability? The immune ...
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases Genital Warts
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases: A Teens Worst
Nightmare Sexually transmitted diseases are
infectious diseases that can be spread by sexual
contact. Some can also be transmitted by
non-sexual ways, but these make up a minority of
the total number of cases. An estimated ten to
twelve million Americans have sexually transmitted
diseases. Sexually transmitted diseases in the
United States affect both sexes, all races, and
every economic stature. STDs come from different
sources. Some are epidemic lik...
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Cerebrospinal Fluid Spinal Cord
806 words
Guillain-Barre Syndrome, (also called acute
idiopathic polyneuritis, and Landry s ascending
paralysis) is a disorder in which the body s
immune system attacks part of the peripheral
nerves, those outside the brain and spinal cord.
Symptoms of this disorder include weakness or
tingling in the legs, sometimes the weakness or
tingling spread to the arms and upper body. These
symptom s then increase in intensity, until the
muscles cannot be used at all and the patient is
almost totally paralyzed, mo...
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