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Central Nervous System Hearing Loss
1,719 wordsMeniere's disease is disease of the ear. There are two types of Meniere's, classical Meniere's affects both the hearing and balance systems and there's also Meniere's that affects only the Cochlea, which is the hearing organ and only the Vestibular system of balance. In the early stages of this disease many people experience sudden attacks of dizziness, nausea, ear ringing or tinnitus, and ear or head pressure. There may also be fluctuating or permanent, hearing loss. The dizziness they experien...
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World Health Organization People With Aids
1,735 wordsThesis: The AIDS and HIV viruses are getting worse in the United States and the rest of the world. Although more people die of heart disease and cancer each year, AIDS has become the health problem people fear the most. Much of the fear comes from ignorance and misunderstanding. Education is the most effective tool against AIDS. It is more important than ever for young people to learn the facts about AIDS. Many teenagers don't know anyone who has AIDS. It is hard for them to believe they are at ...
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Polio Vaccine Nervous System
381 wordsJonas Salk developed the first polio vaccine. As a student, Salk became interested in vaccines. At the time it had been believed that bacterial vaccines could be made from a preparation of dead bacteria, which would immunize without inducing an infection. But scientists believed that a live vaccine had to be used in order to immunize against a virus. Salk was unsure of this and, after his internship he joined Dr. Thomas Francis's influenza vaccine project at the University of Michigan. As a resu...
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Nature And Nurture Types Of Depression
1,412 wordsDepression is one of the most common psychological problems, affecting nearly everyone through either personal experience or through depression in a family member. The cost in human suffering cannot be estimated. Depression can interfere with normal functioning, and frequently causes problems with work, social, and family adjustment. It causes pain and suffering not only to those who have a disorder, but also to those who care about them. Serious depression can destroy family life as well as the...
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Thyroid Gland Pituitary Gland
1,366 wordsAccording to the American Thyroid Association, millions of Americans (especially women) suffer from a thyroid disorder, and many of them dont even know it. In fact, thyroid disorders occur much more often than even many doctors realize. The butterfly-shaped thyroid is in the neck, its two wings wrapped around the windpipe just below the Adams apple. This vitally important gland normally weighs less than an ounce, but it can have an enormous impact on your health. Think of it as your bodys metabo...
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Infected With Hiv Hiv Virus
1,001 wordsThe AIDS and HIV virus is a very dangerous disease that sees no race, no color, no gender, no economic background and not even a specific age group. It can affect anyone, at any time if they put themselves in a situation where they could be at risk. AIDS stands for what is called acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. The virus causes the bodys immune system to break down and become useless in fighting illness and bacteria. Even a common cold could lead to the death of a person affected with the AI...
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Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Immune System
1,094 wordsAmong us today there are thousands of diseases out in the world, most are curable, some don't even have names. Well by the end of this paper you should learn about one more disease called Tuberculosis that will help you understand more about the infectious agents that threaten our lives today and how to control them, especially Tuberculosis. Tuberculosis is the increasingly spreading disease in the world and causes more deaths today then ever before. (www. homepage. holo www. com) TB Global Emer...
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Infected With Hiv Living With Hiv
2,016 wordsHIV 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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Type I Diabetes Insulin Injections
1,472 wordsAbstract Diabetes is a disease that affects 18. 2 million people in the United States alone. This disease results when there is a high level of sugar in the blood for an extended period of time. It can be controlled by diet, exercise, pills and insulin injections. There are three main types of diabetes -- Type I, which affects primarily the younger population; Type II, which primarily affects the population above 40; and gestational diabetes, which affects women during the third trimester of the...
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Abdominal Pain Older Adults
1,519 wordsWhat is Crohns Disease? Crohns disease is a chronic inflammatory disease of the intestines. It primarily causes ulcerations in the small and large intestines, but can effect the digestive system anywhere between the mouth and the anus. It is named after the physician who examined the disease in a landmark paper written in 1932. It is also called Morbus Crohns, Granulomatous enteritis, Regional enteritis, or Terminal ileitis. The disease is found in equal frequency in men and women, and usually e...
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Nausea And Vomiting Types Of Cancer
1,466 words... s not practiced due to the possibility of making it active. Removal of complete malignant tumors is often successful in halting cancer growth in that particular region, when followed by radiation therapy. It is also possible to remove parts of tumors, to reduce the amount of cancerous tissue in the body as a whole. The one major drawback to surgery is that quite often a tumor is not accessible to a surgeon, or it may be attached to a major organ of the body, in which removing the tumor may c...
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Infected With Hiv Hiv Virus
1,249 wordsThe Impact of HIV/AIDS on Childrens Cognitive Abilities HIV in a child that is passed from the mother is a very unfortunate disease. The child has no chance before it is even born. The virus sets in at an extremely early time when there is not even an immune system in effect. A child can be affected in many ways after being infected with the HIV virus. Although, most symptoms will be extremely similar to an adults symptoms. The largest factor contributed to a change in symptoms is how the adult ...
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Knight Ridder Tribune Immune System
646 wordsI wondered lonely Comparison / contrast ALLERGIESwondered lonely as a cloud, that floats on high oer dales and hills, when all at once I saw a crowd-a host of golden daffodils. William Wordsworth I hope he was taking an antihistamine. If he were not, he would develop signs and symptoms of allergies. These include, but are not limited to a sore throat; red, itchy, watery eyes; nasal congestion and drainage; coughing and sneezing. There are many remedies, from grandmas kitchen to the allergy resea...
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Epstein Barr Virus Immune System
818 wordsMononucleosis, also known Mononucleosis Mononucleosis Mononucleosis, also known as Mono, is an illness caused by an infection with a virus. The virus, The Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) is usually the cause of Mono. Other infectious viruses, like cytomegalovirus (CMV) can also produce illnesses like Mono. Most of the people who get Mono are adolescents and young adults. In developed nations, the majority of the people has been exposed to the Epstein- Barr virus by the age of 18. That means that many a...
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Legalization Of Marijuana Tobacco And Alcohol
2,156 wordsThere is a large drug problem facing the United States today, and this problem extends to all citizens. It? s not just the poor and the uneducated who are effected by this problem. The most largely used illegal drug in the United States is Marijuana, and thus is the drug law enforcement and the media tends to target the most, costing the taxpayers lots and lots of money. I will show you that Marijuana is not as large and evil as it may appear, and that if legalized the economy would be strengthe...
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White Blood Cells Types Of Leukemia
2,451 wordsAccording to the Cancer Book from the American Cancer Society, Leukemia is a cancer of the blood. It was first identified as a new disease in around 1830 in Germany. The scientific term, " leukemia, " comes from the Greek words that mean " white blood. " The disease is described as a cancerous disorder not just of the blood itself, but also of the organs that produce the blood cells in the body. The organs are mainly the bone marrow and the lymph system, where normal red and ...
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Effects Of Marijuana Tobacco Smokers
800 wordsMarijuana is a Marijuana Marijuana Marijuana is a green or gray mixture of dried, shredded flowers and leaves of the hemp plant Cannabis sativa. There are over 200 slang terms for marijuana including pot, herb, weed, boom, Mary Jane, gangster, and chronic. It is usually smoked as a cigarette (called a joint) or in a pipe or bong. In recent years, it has appeared in blunts. These are cigars that have been emptied of tobacco and re-filled with marijuana. Some users also mix marijuana into foods su...
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Central Nervous System Multiple Sclerosis
974 wordsMultiple Sclerosis is a disorder of the central nervous system involving decreased nerve function associated with the formation of scars on the covering of nerve cells. Multiple sclerosis (MS) affects approximately 1 out of 1, 600 people. Women are affected about 60 % of the time. The disorder most commonly begins between 20 to 40 years old. MS is one of the major causes of disability in adults under age 65. Multiple sclerosis involves repeated episodes of inflammation of nervous tissue in any a...
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Multiple Sclerosis Hundred Thousand
1,002 wordsJason Garoutte November 18, 1996 English / Mr. Blunt Multiple Sclerosis Multiple sclerosis is one of the most misunderstood diseases of this century. Since it s discovery, there is still no known causes, no proven treatments, and no known cure, yet it affects possibly five hundred thousand people in the United States alone. People need to learn more about this disease so it can be brought to the attention of the nation. Multiple Sclerosis is a disease of the central nervous system. It destroys t...
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Risk Of Contracting Blood
1,543 wordsThe Safety of Blood A five-year old girl is riding down the street, on her way to her best friend? s house. She doesn? t have a care in the world and is quietly humming to herself. Suddenly a car whips around the corner and swerves to avoid the child, but he looses control and squarely hits the girl, causing the her to fall and get trapped between the car and her battered bicycle. A main artery in her leg has been severed and blood fills the gutter of the street. As she gets rushed to the hospit...
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