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Wilson Disease Patients Signs Of The Disease Wilson's
775 wordsWilson's Disease is a genetic disorder that is fatal unless detected and treated before serious illness develops from copper poisoning. Wilson's Disease affects one in thirty thousand people world wide. The genetic defect causes excessive copper accumulation. Small amounts of copper are essential as vitamins. Copper is present in most foods, and most people get much more than they need. Healthy people excrete copper they don't need, but Wilson's Disease patients cannot. Copper begins to accumula...
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Cystic Fibrosis Bone Marrow
1,259 words... not banned (HCF 1). By combining genetic engineering with cloning, the breakthroughs could allow scientist some insight on how to perfect the treatment of fatal diseases. Ailing convalescents will be free of rejection by their own immune systems (HCF 1). In a rare degenerative disorder, syringomyelia, a syrinx, or fluid filled cavity forms a scar near or on the spinal cord. Left untreated, the cavities cause unbearable pain as well as a gradual loss of sensory and motor skills. The tradition...
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Day To Day Labor Costs
1,555 wordsMy father and I ran an independently owned Janitorial service for five years. He presumed as the primary owner of J & R Enterprise, and I was gratefully awarded the position as the primary manager. My job Intel led overseeing the day-to-day operations from open to close. Thos duties consisted of the hiring to the firing, tracking and restocking inventory, and the final checkout at the end of every shift. These responsibilities were gratefully accepted, and willingly executed on a day-to-day basi...
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People Who Are Suffering Gift From God
1,889 wordsYour wife of 50 years is suddenly diagnosed with a terminal disease. She lies in a bed, motionless and unaware of her surroundings. The medication to ease her pain has been wearing off. She just lies there in pain and unable to communicate with the outside world. The doctors give her a month to live at the most. What would you do? Would you let her sit in a hospital bed in agonizing pain for the last few months of her life, or do you help to prematurely meet her God? That is the topic of discuss...
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Anti Psychotic Drugs People With Schizophrenia
1,079 wordsSchizophrenia is a serious, chronic mental disorder characterized by loss of contact with reality and disturbances of thought, mood, and perception. Schizophrenia is the most common and the most potentially sever and disabling of the psychosis, a term encompassing several severe mental disorders that result in the loss of contact with reality along with major personality derangements. Schizophrenia patients experience delusions, hallucinations and often lose thought process. Schizophrenia affect...
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Gulf War Syndrome U S Government
1,618 wordsIn 1990 the United States deployed 700, 000 soldiers into and around the region of the middle east known as the Persian Gulf. The U. S. wanted to stop the progression of Iraqi forces who were invading the oil-rich neighboring country of Kuwait. When Iraq Surrendered to the Allied forces on March 5 th they had been completely swept out of Kuwait. The United States only lost one-hundred-forty-eight men while Iraq's losses where estimated around 100, 000 men. Little did the United States know that ...
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Behaviour Modification Weight Loss
1,614 words... ically similar compounds has resulted in fatal poisoning, usually terminating in convulsions and coma. Management of acute Phentermine (resin) intoxication is largely symptomatic and includes lavage and sedation with a barbiturate. Experience with hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis is inadequate to permit recommendation in this regard. Intravenous phentramine (Regitine) has been suggested on pharmacologic grounds for possible acute, severe hypertension, if this complicates over dosage. DOSA...
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Psychoactive Drugs Peer Pressure
625 wordsDrug use is part of life in the United States. Some people use drugs for medical purposes and some use them to escape from reality or as a way to cope with problems. There are two main types of drugs, medicines and psychoactive drugs. Medicines are used to help the body fight injury and psychoactive drugs are used to cause a change in the users brain activity. Psychoactive drugs are very dangerous. They produce very powerful changes in the body. What a drug does is called its action and unwanted...
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Outweigh The Risks Anabolic Steroids
1,173 wordsDrugs have been used in sports almost as long as sports themselves have been around. The ancient Incas discovered that the ashes from burned leaves of the Coca tree gave the people great stores of energy, and made sleep unnecessary for hours or even days, it was later discovered to be the stimulant cocaine. They would take it before long hunts, battles, and even found it useful in ancient sport competitions. It wasnt until 1886 that the first drug-related death in sports occurred. A bicyclist to...
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Air Traffic Controllers High Stress Levels
3,089 wordsThroughout the Stress 1. 0 Introduction Throughout the eighties and into the nineties, work stress have continued to rise dramatically in organisations across North America. The eighties saw employees stressing out from working in a rapidly growing economy. During the nineties, beginning from the recession of 1992 till present day, employees are stressed by their own job insecurities in the face of massive downsizing and restructuring of organisations in order to be competitive on the global sta...
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Symptoms Of Depression Children And Adolescents
1,836 wordsEach year some thirty thousand Americans die by their own hand, most of them as a result of depression or bipolar. The true figure is probably many times higher. Depression is a disease that afflicts the human psyche in such a way that the afflicted tend to act and react abnormally toward others and themselves. Therefore, it comes to no surprise to discover that adolescent depression is strongly linked to teen suicide. Adolescent suicide is now responsible for more deaths in youth? s aged 15 to ...
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Rapid Eye Movement Walking Down The Street
1,835 wordsMiranda was walking down the street and she came to a stoplight, it was red. While she was waiting, somehow she had fallen asleep standing up. This was not the first time for Miranda or others like her, Miranda suffered from a disorder called narcolepsy. Narcolepsy is a disorder that causes excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) and affects more than 200, 000 Americans, but can be helped with scheduled naps and drugs such as Provigil and Yohimbine. Those with Narcolepsy experience excessive daytime ...
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Point In Time Ginkgo Biloba
1,513 words? Elixirs For Your Memory: The blitz is on for ginkgo and other herbal products, but are they panaceas or placebos? ? -Time Magazine September 13, 1999 Recently, everywhere you turn, you see or hear about new herbal remedies used for improving one? s memory and concentration. One more frequently discussed is Ginkgo Biloba. It is an herbal substance that offers hope for improving memory, concentration and brain functions. Ginkgo Biloba is a derivative of a leafy ornamental tree that originated in...
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Binge Eating Induced Vomiting
1,205 wordsThe book I read was about the hard difficult task of overcoming this terrible eating disorder known as Bulimia. It is a secret addiction that dominates thoughts, severely undercuts self esteem, and threatens lives. Bulimia is a food obsession characterized by repeated overeating binges followed by purges of forced vomiting, prolonged fasting, and / or abusive laxatives, enemas and diuretics. A typical binge / purge cycle, who and why people become involved with bulimia, and the medical complicat...
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American Lung Association Alpha 1 Antitrypsin
1,631 wordsEmphysema is a Emphysema Introduction: Emphysema is a condition of the lungs that involves the over-inflation of the air sacs, otherwise known as the alveoli. Normal functioning of the alveoli helps breathing in normal respiration. Unlike other lung diseases this one can be inherited. This is a disease that can affect people of all ages and genders. In 1994, the number of males with emphysema outnumbered the females by fifty four percent. However, in the two years that followed the difference be...
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Anabolic Steroids Steroid Abuse
1,502 wordsSteroids in Sports In many parts of the world today, sports competitions are the vehicle for the fierce quest to win, to be? the best. ? Athletes will do anything to win whether that be cheating in golf or taking steroids in order to excel in baseball. It is said that over 3 million athletes and bodybuilders have used illegal steroids in this country alone (Street 1). If many people already use steroids why not make them legal and let people take them at their own risk? Or perhaps do you think s...
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American Cancer Society Anti Emetic
1,821 wordsHubert 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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Genetic Engineering Three Times
387 wordsGenetically Engineered Plants Genetic engineering has some history of good and bad. In 1989 as a result of the food supplement Typtophan, 37 people died, 1500 were permanently disabled, and 5000 were very ill as result of high toxin levels in the food. No one knows the future side effects. Such as in August 19994, corn crops grew three inches tall and then suddenly fell over dead, because past crops drained the soil of most nutrients. Genetics have some new applications. They have newer and bett...
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Side Effects Include Bodily Harm
1,586 wordsThe Ghb Grievous Bodily Harm The room is spinning, the music is as loud as it can get and people are dancing all night long. Your heart is pumping, and you feel like you re flying. This is the happiest you ve been in a long time. You re so glad you came to the Rave and happy that your friends made you try GHB until you start to come down. You start with Minor seizures and become so tired you can t stand up anymore. You feel nauseated, you can t breathe correctly, you anxiety level is at it s hig...
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Dietary Supplements Amino Acids
1,684 wordsJeff Reese was a bright, energetic scholar-athlete at the University of Michigan when he died suddenly on December 9, 1997. His death came as a total shock because, as a wrestler, Reese was a fit young man without any known medical conditions. The autopsy said the cause of death was rhabdomyolysis, a cellular breakdown of skeletal muscle. His family, friends, doctors, and the NCAA all think Reese's death was caused by the supplement creatine Reese was taking to improve his wrestling skills. This...
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