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High Blood Pressure Erectile Dysfunction
1,952 wordsERECTILE DYSFUNCTIONS Erection problems are estimated to effect more than ten million American men. At some point in a males life, they are likely to have this problem, ranging from maybe one or two times, or as severe as impotence. Studies have shown that men 18 - 24 have a low percentage of erection al difficulties, but there is a high percentage of men 51 - 60 that have this problem. Yet age is not the only factor for this problem. Many factors contribute to erectile dysfunctions. These inclu...
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Blood Supply Red Cross
834 wordsThere is a crisis. It is the shortage of blood. We need more blood donors. There's no substitute for human blood -- vital for delivering oxygen and nutrients, removing waste, healing and fighting infection. A person's blood can, however, be shared with others. Every day, thousands of Americans in need of lifesaving blood, including trauma victims and surgery patients, rely on the efforts of volunteer blood donors. We need a steady flow of blood donors to keep our blood supply stable. Many people...
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Optic Nerve Nerve Impulses
1,069 wordsThe Eye is the organ of sight. Eyes enable people to perform daily tasks and to learn about the world that surrounds them. Sight, or vision, is a rapidly occurring process that involves continuous interaction between the eye, the nervous system, and the brain. When someone looks at an object, what he / she is really seeing is the light that the object reflects, or gives off. This reflected light passes through the lens and falls on to the retina of the eye. Here, the light induces nerve impulses...
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Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy In Our Blood Supply
1,115 wordsThe well-being of the blood supply has always been a vital component of human existence. It is common knowledge that the existing blood supply is deficient to the increasing usage of blood and blood products. Ironically, as the topic of blood donation arises in society, fears and doubts as to how sanitary and healthful the blood of blood donors often surface. For instance, there is much criticism over allowing foreign travelers to Great Britain the opportunity to donate their blood. This critici...
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Regular Physical Activity High In Fat
820 wordsA heart attack occurs when the blood supply to a portion of the heart muscle is severely reduced or stopped. This happens when one of the arteries that supply blood to the heart muscle is blocked by an obstruction. This blockage can be due to a condition called atherosclerosis (a build up of fatty like substance along the wall of the artery), a blood clot or a coronary vessel spasm along with a total obstruction. If the blood supply to a portion of the heart stops, that area of the heart will no...
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Birth Control Pills National Cancer Institute
2,744 wordsIn the United States in 1999 alone, an estimated 43, 700 people will die from breast cancer. It is the number two cancer killer among females ages 15 to 54. On average if a woman gets this disease, their life expectancy drops drastically. This cancer is within the top three cancers of all women above the age of 15, and comprises a great amount of all health care costs in the U. S. totaling an astounding 37 billion dollars a year in direct medical costs. An average woman is said to have a one in ...
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Optic Nerve Nerve Impulses
2,120 wordsThe Human Eye The Eye is the organ of that you gives your sight. Eyes enable people to perform tasks and to learn about the world that around them. Sight, or vision, is a rapidly occurring process that involves interaction between the eye the nervous system and the brain. When someone looks at an object, what he / she is really seeing is the light that the object reflects, or gives off. This reflected light passes through the lens and falls on to the retina of the eye. Here, the light induces ne...
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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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Birth Control Pills Types Of Cancer
2,029 wordsIn the United States in 1995 alone, 43, 063 died from breast cancer. It is the number two cancer killer and the number one cancer in females ages 15 to 54. On average if a woman gets this disease, their life expectancy drops nineteen and a half years. This cancer is within the top three cancers of all women above the age of 15, and comprises 6 % of all health care costs in the U. S. totaling an astounding 35 billion dollars a year. An average woman is said to have a one in thirty chance of getti...
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Area Of The Brain Permanent Damage
785 wordsThough the ultimate Strokes Strokes Though the ultimate result of a stroke or intracranial accident is neurological damage, the primary cause of this condition seems from a catastrophe of vascular origin affecting intracranial blood flow. From a technical perspective, a stroke is defined by the World Health Organisation as rapidly developing clinical sign of cerebral function, lasting more then 24 hours or leading to death, with no apparent cause other then of vascular origin. Without a supply o...
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