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Types Of Cancer Genital Warts
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Needles And Syringes Scar Tissue
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Cause Of Death Chest Pain
1,499 wordsCauses of Pneumonia Bacterial Pneumonia Viral Pneumonia Mycoplasma Pneumonia Other Kinds of Pneumonia Treating Pneumonia Preventing Pneumonia is Possible If You Have Symptoms WHAT IS PNEUMONIA? Pneumonia is a serious infection or inflammation of your lungs. The air sacs in the lungs fill with pus and other liquid. Oxygen has trouble reaching your blood. If there is too little oxygen in your blood, your body cells can't work properly. Because of this and spreading infection through the body pneum...
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Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Rheumatoid Arthritis
1,983 wordsInflammation is the bodies normal response to injured tissues, although it can sometimes lead to further tissue damage. It was first described around 30 BC by Celsius, as tumour (swelling), rumor (redness), calor (heat) and door (pain); although excess secretion and loss of function are now commonly added. Inflammation is a response which has evolved to try and put things right in a damaged tissue, for example the pain and loss of function allow the tissue to heal easier whilst the heat and redn...
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1,788 wordsHow do the urinary system work? ? Your body takes nutrients from food and uses them to maintain all bodily functions including energy and self-repair. After your body has taken what it needs from the food, waste products are left behind in the blood and in the bowel. The urinary system works with the lungs, skin, and intestines -- all of which also excrete wastes -- to keep the chemicals and water in your body balanced. Adults eliminate about a quart and a half of urine each day. The amount depe...
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases Mucous Membranes
1,169 wordsS. T. D. , what does it mean? It stands for Sexually Transmitted Disease. STDs used to be called venereal diseases. Sexually transmitted diseases have been around for a long time. There were references to gonorrhea in the Old Testament and descriptions of syphilis at the time of Columbus. Sexually transmitted diseases cross all boundaries. They are not restricted to people of one sexual orientation, race, cultural group or socioeconomic class. When most people think about infectious diseases, 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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Genital Herpes Herpes Simplex
328 wordsHerpes Genital is the name of a widespread sexually transmitted disease. It is also generally known simply as herpes. Genital herpes is caused by the herpes simplex virus or the Herpes Simplex Virus 2. HSV- 2 is one of the herpes viruses, a group of viruses that cause a wide variety of diseases (Banikowski, S 1999). HSV- 2 infects only human beings and is transmitted during intimate sexual activity. Infection occurs on or around the sex organs or rectum. The virus then spreads along the nerves t...
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Adverse Reactions Chicken Pox
1,032 wordsIn 1996 a mother took her six-month-old son, Jonah, to the doctor to get his DPT vaccination. Two days later, Jonah came down with an ear infection. Bobbie took him into the doctor and the child was given a prescription of amoxicillin. The ear infection soon healed and all went well for about two months when the infection returned. Bobbie again took Jonah to the physician where he, this time, gave the boy a stronger form of amoxicillin. Again the infection soon diminished. About four months late...
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Health Care Workers University Of Toronto
1,696 words... taking, questionnaires and donor 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 ne...
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Std Sexually Transmitted Diseases
1,483 words... be able to get it from blood transfusions, but now the blood supplies are cleaner. You can get it from other kinds of skin contact too. Kissing, dry humping, petting, and foreplay involve skin contact, therefore, can transmit the infection. A mother can pass it on to her child during birth. Symptoms Syphilis has three stages, during the first stage, a painless sore may appear on the spot where the bacteria first entered the body, usually nine days after contact with an infected person. The s...
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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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Life Threatening Past Year
1,774 wordsSome call it horror and some call it the super germ, but now, our always known regular bacteria, those one-celled creatures once considered under control with antibiotics, have invaded our hospitals and headlines with a vengeance. The vengeance used against us is caused by an existing organism called necrotizing fasciitis, the so-called flesh-eating bacteria, caused by Group A streptococcus. What this organism does is progressively destroy the human body tissue all the way to the bone. This orga...
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Endoplasmic Reticulum Hemorrhagic Fever
3,146 wordsHantavirus: A Four Corners Study When a new virus appeared in the Four Corners region, American scientists were stumped. What was causing such a quick death to such healthy people? Was there a potential epidemic on their hands? No one knew, and when they finally determined that a strain hantavirus was involved, many were shocked. This had to be something completely new to the hantavirus family and that was somewhat overwhelming. Normally, the hantavirus only affects the kidneys, but this new vir...
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Loss Of Appetite Nausea Vomiting
1,628 wordsTHE PRIORITY OF HEPATITIS B VACCINATIONS IN CANADA The increase in the number of children attending schools in Canada and the potential for transmission of viral infection in that environment is a problem of great size. A virus is defined as a morbid principle, or a poisonous venom, especially one capable of being introduced into another person or animal in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. Due to their miniscule size, it was not until 1885 that Adolf Mayer observed their existence in the m...
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Toxic Shock Syndrome Kidney Failure
868 wordsImpetigo is a bacterial infection caused by Streptococcus and / or Staphylococcus organisms. Both staphylococcus and streptococcus are part of the normal flora found on human skin, but given the opportunity they can become pathogenic. Streptococcus is a spherical bacterium that is arranged into chains. It is Gram positive and catalase negative. Group A Streptococcus (GAS), such as Streptococcus pyogenes, are responsible for most cases of streptococcal infections. The letter A is part of a classi...
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Nucleic Acid Disease Causing
1,453 wordsThe smallest livingMononucleus Bacteria The smallest living things on earth are the prokaryotic cells. Bacteria fall into the Monera Kingdom. They have a single DNA molecule in the cytoplasm. Almost all minerals have a cell wall that protects the cell and gives it its shape. Some minerals have a layer outside the cell wall called the capsule. This helps the cell cling to surfaces. A typical bacterium is about 2 micrometers long. Inside the cell, there are nucleic acids, enzymes, and other substa...
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Spinal Cord Muscle Weakness
1,033 wordsMornings bring pain, not particular to its domain, when we should be refreshed and strong. If there is a trick up it s sleeve, it s in mid morning and we think, for the thousandth time, it went away. It comes to catch us again, with a mid-afternoon wave of fatigue, so overwhelming the world isn t real. The struggle is enormous. This has to be the worse time. When hope and excitement of genius ideas reach their peak, to be brought down by a ghastly thing, no hopes can overcome. We must sleep, whe...
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World Health Organization Skin Test
1,124 wordsTuberculosis Tuberculosis Prevention Tuberculosis Prevention Tuberculosis is becoming a world-wide problem. Three million people die of TB each year, and over 22, 000 cases are reported each year in the United States. There are also an estimated 10 to 15 million people in the U. S. who are infected with the TB germs with potential to develop TB disease in the future (Hughes, February 1998). The modern era of tuberculosis began in the mid 1980 s. At that time it was realized that tuberculosis had...
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases Hiv Aids
1,566 wordsSex Stds Sexually Transmitted Diseases Sex is a popular subject; it is on television, in advertisements, in magazines, and practically everywhere. One very serious side effect of an increase of sexual activity is the risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases. They affect more than twelve million Americans each year. Sexually transmitted diseases are becoming common and widely spread throughout Americans because of unprotected sex, promiscuity, and multiple sex partners. Some of the most ...
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