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Shortness Of Breath Cigarette Smoke
663 wordsBronchitis is when the line the bronchial tubes become inflamed. As with the common cold, virtually everyone has had bronchitis at some time. It usually is caused by a viral infection that spreads to the bronchi. There are several types of bronchitis; the most common types are acute and chronic. Acute bronchitis is the inflammation of mucous membranes of the bronchial tubes, it usually only lasts a few days. Chronic bronchitis is when acute bronchitis lasts for months at a time and returns every...
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Hiv Positive Parents Should Not Have Children
1,065 wordsHIV POSITIVE PARENTS SHOULD NOT HAVE CHILDREN Human Immunodeficiency Virus, better known as HIV, is a virus that slowly attacks and destroys the immune system. This destruction leaves the infected individual exposed to illnesses and infections that eventually cause him to die. In most cases, this virus alters and becomes a fatal transmissible disorder called AIDS or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. HIV positive couples should not have children because the children can become orphans at an ear...
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Billion Per Year Secondhand Smoke
855 wordsSmoking is the most preventable cause of death in our society. During 1995, approximately 2. 1 million people in developed countries died as a result of smoking. One tobacco use is responsible for nearly one in five deaths in the United States. Lung Cancer mortality are about 23 times higher for current male smokers and 13 times higher for current female smokers compared to a lifelong never-smoker. In addition to being responsible for 87 % of lung cancers, smoking is also associated with cancers...
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Stimulating Factors Or Triggers Factors Or Triggers Asthma
725 wordsAsthma is a condition of the bronchial tubes characterized by episodes of constriction and increased mucous production. A person with asthma has bronchial tubes that are super sensitive to various stimuli, or triggers, that can produce asthma symptom. In other words, asthmatics have special sensitivity that causes their lung tissue to react far more than is should to various stimulating factors or triggers. For this reason, people with asthma are said to have "twitchy airways. " Some symptoms th...
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Health Care Workers University Of Toronto
1,697 words... or inter- views. Very few people at risk of AIDS now come to give blood. The "self- elimination form", filled out in a private booth, allows any who feel compelled by peer pressure to donate blood, total privacy to check the box that says "Do not use my blood for transfusion. " As to banking one's own blood, or autologous donations, the Red Cross permits a few "medically suitable" people, referred by their physician, to store their blood if they are likely to need blood transfusion in upcomi...
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Ebola Virus Fatality Rate
903 wordsI chose to do my report of the Ebola Virus because it is a very deadly, and its a virus that isnt publicized much in newspapers and televisions. So I think its a good choice. The Ebola virus is one of the worlds most deadly viruses, in all of its many forms. The purpose of this essay is to explain the history, signs and symptoms of the Ebola virus. Between the years 425 BC & 430 BC Athens population was dramatically reduced when about 300, 000 of its inhabitants died from some sickness. People n...
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Systemic Lupus Blood Cell
1,087 wordsLupus Definition of the Disease Lupus is a chronic inflammatory disease of unknown cause that can affect virtually any part of the body. The medical term for Lupus is Systemic Lupus Erythematosus or better known as SLE. With Lupus there is a malfunction in some of the cells of the immune system. 'In Lupus, the body overreacts to an unknown stimulus and makes to many antibodies, or proteins directed against body tissue. Thus, Lupus is called an autoimmune disease. "# Myth/Reality Statements Myth:...
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Hiv Infected Women Health Care Providers
689 wordsHence, without this diagnosis, many women are unable to receive health benefits and services available to those with an "official" AIDS diagnosis (12). Further data that show that women with AIDS do not survive as long after diagnosis as men and, once diagnosed, become sick faster and die sooner than men with AIDS (12). Some studies suggest this be attributed to gender differences or to delay diagnosis of women, inferior access to health care and poor utilization of service (12). Utilization of ...
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Involved When Receiving Effects After An Abortion Women
800 wordsAn abortion is the removal of a developing baby from the womb of his or her mother using surgical, mechanical, or chemical means (Powell 11). The most common way of performing an abortion is called vacuum aspiration. This procedure is usually done during the first trimester of ones pregnancy. Surgical abortions are usually not performed before seven weeks and by that time the baby has identifiable arms and legs. Knowing that a child is slowly beginning to develop inside of a womans uterus makes ...
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Centers For Disease Control Disease Control And Prevention
856 wordsWhile the federal governments investment in treatment and research is helping people with HIV/AIDS live longer and more productive lives, HIV continues to spread at a staggering national rate of over 40, 000 new infections per year. The following data represent the total reported AIDS cases in Georgia through year-end 2002: 1998 8, 785 1999 9, 663 2000 10, 290 2001 11, 269 2002 12, 320 For 2003, according to the information given on July 7 th, there were 26, 373 cases (1). It is the position of ...
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Sexually Transmitted Disease Human Immunodeficiency Virus
738 wordsInfection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) had emerged as a major health problem for women in the United States. Family physicians can play an important role in the detection and care of HIV-infected women. The epidemiology and natural history of HIV infection in women were reviewed. HIV infection is now a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among young women in the United States, particularly women of racial and ethnic minorities. Most cases of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome...
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Bubonic Plague Infectious Diseases
1,096 wordsThe Bubonic Plague Devastating epidemics and infectious diseases took place in all periods of the mankind's history. The number of the victims at times considerably exceeded losses during military actions. Plague was one of the terrible general illnesses of the classical Middle Ages period. 3 enormous plagues are known in the history. The first is Justinian's plague (sixth century A. D. ), which, having left Egypt, has devastated almost all the countries of the Mediterranean and it was kept abou...
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Residency Program For Nyu College Of Dentistry
598 wordsRESIDENCY PROGRAM FOR NYU COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY The rate of change experienced by the dental health care industry is unprecedented. There has been, in fact, a complete evolution of the American health care delivery system. Driven by economic and social change, both the structure and power base of the health care system have changed. Our general practice residency provides a broad range of experience dealing with the dental patient in both a clinical and didactic sense. For me, a good career optio...
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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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Blood Sugar Levels Diabetes Mellitus
836 wordsDiabetes Diabetes Mellitus Diabetes Mellitus Diabetes education is an important part of a treatment plan. Diabetes educators and health care providers are available in many areas to teach essential skills needed after initial diagnosis of the disease. Appropriate education teaches people with diabetes how to incorporate the management principles of the disease into their daily lives and minimize dependence upon the health care provider. An education program is helpful to learn more about the dis...
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases Herpes Simplex
1,254 wordsINTRODUCTION According Lab SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES INTRODUCTION According to the Websters? dictionary, a sexually transmitted disease, or commonly termed STD, can be defined as any of various diseases transmitted by direct sexual contacted that include classic venereal diseases (as syphilis, gonorrhea, and chancroid) and other diseases (as hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, giordiasis, and AIDS) that are often or sometimes contracted by other sexual means (Internet 3). This lab report will be deali...
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Burning Sensation Symptoms Include
620 wordsGonorrhea is a curable sexually transmitted disease (STD) caused by bacteria called Neisseria gonorrhoeae. These bacteria can infect the genital tract, the mouth, and the rectum. In women, the opening to the womb from the birth canal is the first place of infection. The disease can spread into the womb and fallopian tubes, resulting in pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). Gonorrhea is caused by Neisseria gonorrhoeae, which is a small obligate aerobe with flattened abutting sides. It s fast growing...
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Hepatitis B Body Piercing
545 wordsImagine Hepatitis B Hepatitis B Imagine that one morning you wake up feeling very tired and weak. Your sick to your stomach, have a high fever, and on top of all of that, your stools, eyes, skin and urine have all become a yellowish tint. You figure that it will go away on it? s own and that it is really no big deal at all. But lately you have been feeling very tired and not had the appetite you usually hold. You then go to a doctor to see what? s wrong, and how he can stop this very strange thi...
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Specific Weapons Immune System Cells
436 wordsYou 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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Terminally Ill Patients Quality Of Life
1,291 wordsLegalizing marijuana for medical purposes has been a debate for many years. Many institutions have opened up to help terminally ill patients receive their dosage of marijuana. One of them being Cannabis Healing Center in California, which was shut down by the government in 1998 because selling or using marijuana for any reason is illegal no matter what. Its a violation of federal law to cultivate or distribute marijuana. Federal law supersedes state law (Marmion 2). Even though marijuana has no ...
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