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Central Nervous System Bodys Immune System
752 wordsMultiple Sclerosis is a disease of the central nervous system, the nerves that make up the brain and spinal cord. This disease is commonly known as MS. Its cause is unknown, it cannot be prevented, and neither a cure or a safe and effective treatment has been able to halt its progression so far. It is not fatal, and much progress is being made in treating symptoms and identifying mechanisms that trigger this disease. Sclerosis comes from the Greek word skiers, which means hard. Multiple sclerosi...
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Effects Of Laughter On Patients And Caregiver
1,167 wordsLaughter can be a powerful therapy for most patients and the caregivers. There are many benefits from the effects of humor and laughter on the body, mind, and spirit; the patient during recovery from illness; and the health professional during delivery of care. Most experienced caregivers have discovered that attention to only the physical body during treatment will render a partial or temporary recovery. The patient's emotional responses, belief system, and support network may effect compliance...
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Smooth Muscle Blood Flow
1,611 wordsDirections: The following exam consists of various types of questions designed to test the critical reasoning skills of the examinee. Answers are found on the following page, with rationales. This is a Twenty question test, with an allotted time of 45 minutes to indulge ones academic and clinical prowess. Questions 1 - 4 are based on the following scenario: A 55 year old male, medium body build of 90 Kg presents complaining of acute shortness of breath. He has a history of CHF and acute respirat...
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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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White Blood Cells Bone Marrow
1,043 words... paul, or liquid form. You will swallow the drug, just as you do many other medications. Into a muscle, under the skin, or directly into a cancerous area in the skin. You will get an injection with a needle. Topically. The medication will be applied onto the skin. Some medicines may interfere with the effects of chemotherapy. That is why patients should take a list of all their medications to their doctor prior to the start of their chemotherapy. Over-the-counter drugs and vitamins as well as...
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Amino Acids Stress Hormones
1,374 wordsIn 1975, Dr. John Hughes and Dr. Kosterlitz discovered Endorphins. It has been confirmed that Endorphins have both neurological and spinal effects. Twenty different types of Endorphins have been discovered in the nervous system. The most effective, beta-endorphin, which gives the most euphoric effect to the brain, has been found to be composed of 31 amino acids. The word Endorphin is abbreviated from 'endogenous morphine' which means morphine produced naturally in the body. Endorphins are renown...
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Infected With Hiv Opportunistic Infections
1,177 words... latin lesions. The use of a condom during sexual intercourse can assist in this, but a condom will not protect other exposed surfaces. Genital herpes is rapidly gaining attention as an STD. One reason is that thousands of new cases are being identified each year. Another reason is a lack of any known cure. Herpes simplex virus type 2, because it is viral, makes antibiotic drugs useless in treating the symptoms and eliminating infection from the body. In most cases, the herpes sore blisters a...
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases Stds
1,172 wordsSTDs (Sexually Transmitted Diseases) are diseases that are transmitted through sexual intercourse with another domestic partner. Usually STDs are transmitted through oral, anal, vaginal, or other sexually active bodily contact. Sexually Transmitted Diseases are 100 % avoidable. There are many techniques, but the most effective way is to have sexual intercourse with only one partner in your whole life, making sure that your partner didnt have sexual involvements with anyone else. Another method i...
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Uv Radiation Skin Cancer
1,253 wordsWhat causes melanoma? Scientists do not yet know exactly what causes melanoma skin cancer, but we do know that certain risk factors are linked to the disease. Some risk factors, like smoking, can be controlled. Others, like a person's age or family history, can't be changed. But having a risk factor, or even several, doesnt mean that a person will get the disease. Risk Factors for Melanoma Skin Cancer Moles: Moles are (not cancerous) skin tumors. People with lots of moles, and those who have som...
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Gene Therapy Clinical Trial
793 wordsIn 1990, a three-year-old Cleveland, Ohio, girl named Ashanti De Silva made history when doctors infused her with genes to produce an infection-fighting enzyme called ADA that she lacked. A decade later, the ashes of Jesse Gelsinger were scattered on an Arizona mountaintop after the 18 -year-old died of respiratory distress -- essentially, his lungs shut down -- after getting a massive dose of a modified cold virus intended to carry a gene to his cells. Somewhere in between, the promise of gene ...
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Stem Cell Immune System
393 wordsGeneric Heart Engineering To engineer a heart, the pathways to its formation through stem cells must first be discovered through one genome line that is as healthy as possible (i. e. no signs of an genetic disorders, especially related to oncogenes, no family history of heart problems). Then a process could be made to grow a heart in vitro through the use of the right cell signaling, transcription factors and hormones. After this process is perfected, the genome could be screened again for any d...
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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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Bodys Immune System Sexual Intercourse
820 wordsAIDS is the plague of the 20 th century, but how much do we really know about this deadly disease? HIV is a virus that gets into the body and flows through the bloodstream. AIDS is the disease that is caused by HIV. Once you are diagnosed as HIV positive, you do not automatically have AIDS. There is a possibility of being HIV positive, and not having AIDS. Most people do not know it is the infections that break down the bodys immune system rather than the AIDS that kills parents. HIV can be prev...
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Ebola Zaire Ebola Virus
1,560 wordsThe Ebola Virus Descriptions of the Ebola virus: The Ebola virus is a complicating object (viruses not being considered living creatures, so it is an object). Named after the Ebola River, the Ebola virus particle contains seven different proteins of which only three have vaguely known purposes. While the exact function of the other four proteins are still unknown, we do know that they attack immune system. Ebola is known to jump hosts and known to be lethal to both monkeys and humans. Similar to...
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Epstein Barr Virus Living At Home
2,945 wordsTable of Contents Introduction Page 1 The Freshmen Fifteen Page 2 Dining Hall Menus Page 2 Vegetarians Page 3 Eating Disorders Page 3 Causes of Anorexia Nervosa Page 5 Personal Hygiene Page 6 Illnesses Page 6 Mononucleosis Page 7 STDs Page 8 HIV virus Page 9 On Campus Health Services Page 9 Introduction When one goes away to college, their life changes dramatically. They are forced to make changes in their own lives in order to adapt to college life. When one is in high school and living at home...
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Muscular Dystrophy Vacuum Tubes
1,344 wordsThere are a number of people who would consider the technological and computer revolutions to be the greatest achievements of our time. But, will the near future for computers have continued impact on society? Society has marvelled at the current functions of computers from managing business accounts to connecting to the other side of the world with the Internet. The revolution was not always seen this way. Society felt that the quick change to a touch-button lifestyle might cause such pessimist...
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Year Old Boy Gene Therapy
2,454 wordsWhats the worst that can happen to me? I die, and its for the babies, said Jessie Gelsinger as he left for the hospital to receive gene therapy treatment. (Stolberg) People risk their lives everyday in the name of science. One such science that people have recently been drawn to is gene therapy. Although, gene therapy may be new and exciting and it may be helping to find cures to diseases we only dreamed of curing, we have to remember it is dangerous. It needs to be done with much supervision. E...
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Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus Blood Glucose Levels
1,101 wordsDiabetes mellitus is caused by a deficiency in the secretion or action of insulin. Nearly six percent of the United States population shows some degree of abnormality in glucose metabolism indicative of diabetes or a tendency toward the condition. Diabetes mellitus is a group of diseases in which the regulatory activity of insulin is defective. There are two major clinical classes of the disease. Theres type I, which is insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM), and type II, which is non-insuli...
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Bodys Immune System Health Care Professionals
1,883 wordsInflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a group of chronic disorders that cause inflammation or ulceration in the small and large intestines. Most often IBD is classified as ulcerative colitis or Crohns disease but may be referred to as colitis, enteritis, ileitis, and proc titis. Ulcerative colitis causes ulceration and inflammation of the inner lining of a couple of really bad places, while Crohns disease is an inflammation that extends into the deeper layers of the intestinal wall. Ulcerative col...
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Bodys Immune System Lupus Erythematosus
919 wordsLupus is Lupus Lupus Lupus is an autoimmune disorder which means that the bodys immune system is not functioning normal and its attacking the normal tissue, instead of the bacteria and viruses or in other words the bodys immune system is hurting itself. The body is just reacting to unknown stimulus and it makes too many antibodies, or proteins directed against body tissue. Its the complete opposite that happens in A. I. D. S. and Cancer a virus or disease breaks down in the immune system unlike ...
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