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Coronary Heart Disease American Lung Association
1,047 words"According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were a little over 300, 000 deaths related to AIDS in 1997. That's like taking half the people in Baltimore county and making them disappear. Another 75, 000 died from alcohol. In addition to that, 20, 000 died from illegal drug use, and 25, 000 died from motor vehicle crashes. But if you were to add those numbers up, they still wouldn't equal the amount of deaths that were related to tobacco. In fact, each year, smoking kills m...
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Hiv And Aids Hiv Virus
1,570 wordsGonzales 1 The Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was first discovered in 1981 as a unique and newly recognized infection of the body's immune system (Mellors 3). The name AIDS was formally know as GRIDS (Gay Related Immune Defiance Syndrome). The first case of AIDS was discovered in Los Angeles, where scientists from the CDC (Center for Disease Control) were called in on a half dozen cases. The CDC was convinced what they were seeing was a new strand of virus. None of the staff members ...
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Violence In Schools Acts Of Violence
1,526 wordsThere is excessive violence in society, and it is escalating, as evidence by music, TV, movies, videos, and in schools. How has music and society made people more violent? Violence is everywhere, and some people realize it. Teens are around violence everyday. It's found in school, the music they listen to and the movies they watch. After kids come home from a school with violence in it, then they go home and play video games with guys chopping other peoples head off, which is very violent. Paren...
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War On Drugs Substance Abuse
1,388 wordsSince the end of World War II, almost every president has declared a war on illegal drug use. The efforts against drugs that are currently used, got their start from a series of laws passed during the Nixon administrations War on Drugs. Many programs have been established including Nancy Regans Just Say No campaign which was started in 1983. George Bush, later provided the DEA with its largest federal funding increase ever, raising the DEAs budget to more than $ 18 billion. The War on Drugs has ...
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Prion Diseases Sickle Cell
1,117 words... were 3 months old, their brains had degenerated and contained spongy tissue. Although the brain matter had been damaged, the neurons had yet to be affected and the mice presented no symptoms. Days after the enzyme production, the PrP gene stopped producing PrP and the remaining quantities of PrP were quickly broken down by protease. With no new protein for the infectious form to convert, the disease progression stopped and slowly reversed. The holes within the brain healed and the mice retur...
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Health And Human Services Department Of Health And Human
926 wordsTobacco was introduced into the American colonies in the early 1600 s. The tobacco plant soon became the leading crop and trading commodity in America. Tobacco was widely accepted up until the 1960 s when research found that there was health effects directly associated with tobacco use. However, since the 1970 s tobacco use has increased dramatically. An increasing amount of tobacco users has caused an increasing number of deaths in America because it has been proven to cause cancer. In the 1990...
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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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Hiv And Aids In African Americans
548 wordsThe unit plan for a HIV/AIDS Peer Education program is targeting African American teenagers who have signed up for the S. A. F. E (Stopping Aids For Everyone) Program. The program is a community health based curriculum designed to increase the awareness of HIV/AIDS transmission in the African American community. The group will range in age between 13 - 17 years of age and will be attending local high schools. Group size will be approximately 20 students. The program would be on Saturdays at 12: ...
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Biological Warfare Agents General Accounting Office
1,289 words... of-the-art equipment that could have been used for agent production. No evidence, to date, has been established for munitions development and / or agent weapons. The experience of the U. N. team emphasizes the difficulty of locating a Smoking Gun relative to BW programs. This type of program is much easier to hide from inspection than either chemical or nuclear programs. USAMARIID (2001) U. S. Offensive Program The United States initiated a review of the potential of BW in 1941 - 1942, imple...
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Health And Human Services Department Of Health And Human
1,236 wordsRegulatory Agencies Regulatory Agencies are rule-making organizations that are empowered to create and enforce rules and regulations that carry the full force of a law. Violation of these rules or regulations by individuals, businesses, and private or public organizations often results into sanctions, imprisonment, forced closure or fines undertaken by the regulatory bodies with support from government bodies (web). Rules are a part of an agency statement of general or particular applicability a...
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Centers For Disease Control Disease Control And Prevention
1,508 wordsWhile the federal governments investment in treatment and research is helping people with HIV/AIDS live longer and more productive lives, HIV continues to spread at a staggering national rate of over 40, 000 new infections per year. The following data represent the total reported AIDS cases in Georgia through year-end 2002: 1998 8, 785 1999 9, 663 2000 10, 290 2001 11, 269 2002 12, 320 For 2003, according to the information given on July 7 th, there were 26, 373 cases (1). It is the position of ...
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Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Death Scene
1,786 wordsSudden Infant Death Syndrome and the Role of the Respiratory Therapist Imagine the thought of a mother going in to her childs room and kissing her baby good night. Expecting to hear the gentle breath of her baby all that she hears is silence. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is the sudden death of an infant under one year of age which remains unexplained after a thorough case investigation, including performance of a complete autopsy, examination of the death scene, and review of the clinical...
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Cri Du Chat Syndrome Cat Cry Syndrome Child
417 wordsCri Du Chat Syndrome (Cry of the Cat) By Chase Kuntz The Cri du Chat syndrome is the result of the deletion of segment 5 p 15. 2 in the short arm of chromosome number five. No one is quite sure on how this deletion occurs, or even why it occurs. This deletion leads to deformities and mental retardation in the child. One of the ideas though is that it may happen due to slight problems with chromosome 5 in either parent. The physical appearance of a child with cat cry syndrome is one that can beco...
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Don T Make Humane Society
1,888 wordsDogs chomp on more than four million people a year. Don? ? t be one of them. Dog bites on the rise Megan Bogers of La Belle, Pa. , returned from shopping with her mother and ran into the yard to greet the family pet, a part-cocker mutt named Blaze. Seconds later, her mom, Elena Bogers, heard a snap and then shrieks from three-year-old Megan. There was blood all over her face from tooth punctures under an eye and around her mouth, she recalls. Elena and her husband rushed their sobbing child to a...
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Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
1,964 wordsIn the world today, there are many known deadly viruses, but few present as great a threat as Ebola, the virus that causes Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever. Key factors in understanding Ebola HF include: Its history, plan of attack, and the diagnosis and treatment of the disease. The Ebola virus can, and usually does cause a disease called Ebola hemorrhagic fever, which is a Viral hemorrhagic fever. According to the proceedings of the 4 th National Symposium on Biosafety, the clinical definition for Vira...
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Deadly Disease 1 Html
1,052 wordsHand Virus As A Deadly Disease Hand virus is a dangerous and often deadly disease that must be guarded against. If proper precautions are not taken, hand virus could lead to a nationwide outbreak causing many deaths. While there are a few cases of hand virus reported each year, the consequences of coming down with the disease dictates that the U. S. set up certain safeguards to educate the population on how to protect themselves. Even though research is being done on hand virus and its related i...
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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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United States Government Teenage Smoking
1,214 wordsTeenage smoking: Giving adults something to stress about since the 1950 s Audience: people of teen age and up Teenage smoking is something that has been going on in the world for more than a while now. Youthful smoking is widely accepted in many cultures, with the exception of that of the United States. In the more recent years of the United States history, much money has been wasted on researching the effects of smoking and advertising those effects. I believe that there is no warrant for any a...
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Hiv Infected Women American Medical Association
1,148 wordsPrevention of HIV Transmittance to Babies Last year, it was cause for celebration. The cause of celebration was for the results that several clinical trials of zidovudine cut the risk for mother to child transmission of human immune deficiency virus (HIV) by two thirds. Although, this year, it is the basis for new federal recommendations that all pregnant women should receive HIV testing and counseling. But, these findings have been cause of protests by several activist groups. Activists fear th...
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Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Vital Statistics
1,963 wordsImagine the thought of a mother going in to her child? s room and kissing her baby good night. Expecting to hear the gentle breath of her baby all that she hears is silence. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is the? sudden death of an infant under one year of age which remains unexplained after a thorough case investigation, including performance of a complete autopsy, examination of the death scene, and review of the clinical history? (Willinger, et al. , 1991). More children die of SIDS in a...
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