Papers on Health and Medicine
Alzheimer's Disease
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minor, and cannot account for the severe impairment suffered by Alzheimer's
victims.
Neurofibrillary Tangles are also found in the brains of Alzheimer's
victims. They are found within the cell bodies of nerve cells in the
cerebral cortex, and take on the structure of a paired helix. Other
diseases that have "paired helixes" include Parkinson's disease, Down's
Syndrome, and Dementia Pugilistica. Scientists are not sure how the paired
helixes are related in these very different diseases.
Neuritic Plaques are patches of clumped material lying outside the
bodies of nerve cells in the brain. They are mainly found in the .....
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Depression
Words: 559 - Pages: 3.... these have
been recognized, you can take measures to treat them. Some are: feeling sad,
worried or depressed; feeling as if your life is dreary and unlikely to improve;
had crying spells; become irritated over little things that didn't used to
bother you; find you no longer enjoy hobbies and activities that once made you
happy; feel a lack of self-confidence or feeling like a failure; lost your
appetite, or are eating more than usual; have had trouble sleeping, or been
sleeping too much; had trouble concentrating and making decisions; and thought
about death and/or suicide.
Knowing the causes for depression can help depressed people, frien .....
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Heart Cells
Words: 429 - Pages: 2.... by heart attacks. They detected cell nuclei that were splitting.
Other scientists searching for dividing had not tried that technique.
The finding strengthens the possibility that scientists can develop medical treatments to enhance cell division and restore healthy heart muscle. It is too soon, however, to know to what extent such treatments might repair damaged hearts, such as those suffering congenital heart disease.
Scientist and researchers at the University of Udine in Italy, studied hearts removed from 27 people who had received transplants. The researchers stained slices of heart tissue half a micrometer thick and used a confo .....
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Decisions About Abortion
Words: 485 - Pages: 2.... screamed in horror as it ripped my legs off. I was
dying. I knew that I would never be able to hear you say how much you love
me, and I would never see your face. Although I was in complete utter pain,
I wanted more than anything to be your little girl. No use now, for I was
dying a painful death.” Maybe this isn’t what the baby feels, maybe it
doesn’t feel anything at all, but its one very good perspective of it.
I also believe that the pregnant woman should decided for herself whether
or not she wants to abort her child. If the circumstances were on me, and
it was not my fault that I got pregnant because I was raped, and I felt
that .....
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The Bubonic Plague
Words: 581 - Pages: 3.... cotton, or on the backs of the crew, passengers or
returning soldiers? Furthermore, how did the disease spread from the ports
to the town and country? Via wild rodents in the countryside, by the rats
and fleas in transported freight, or by the fleas on their human
hosts?Although the evidence is mixed and debatable, it is suggested they
all played a role. There is evidence to support that plague was caught from
baggage and bales of clothes and cloth, as in Eyam in Derbyshire in 1665.
There is also existing evidence that human transmission is solely
responsible. The spread of the plague across the country was far too rapid
to be accounted fo .....
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Anorexia And Bulimia
Words: 1019 - Pages: 4.... bulimia is likely to begin after the late teens,
while anorexia more often starts during adolescence. The incidence of anorexia
or bulimia in males is about 5% of all cases, with the onset of the disorders
generally mid-teens to early twenties.
2. What are the causes of the eating disorders Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia?
There are many theories, but no clear picture. It is an over
simplification to blame the mass media's presentation to blame the mass media's
presentation of the ideal shape: though western society's increased emphasis on
the slim, fit body places pressure on many people.
We know there are many factors affecting the d .....
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Baseball
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foul does not trip over a baseball or a helmet. I do not think athletes really
think in such terms until someone actually gets hurt.
One thing that I always kept my eye on when I was working was to make
sure the catcher's were wearing their face mask when they were warming the
pitchers in the bullpen. At first, the athletes thought I was telling them to
put their mask on as an authoritative figure; however, after I explained to them
it was for their own good, and I was only looking out for their safety, they
realized why I was doing it. I believe one way to get the respect of the
athletes and coaches on a team is .....
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Alcoholism: Is It Hereditary?
Words: 1749 - Pages: 7.... populations, balanced genetic models leave room for the substantial
impact of environmental, social and individual factors so that drinking to
excess can only be predicted within a complex, multivariate framework. The
denial of this complexity in some quarters obscure what has been
discovered through genetically oriented research and has dangerous
consequences for prevention and treatment policies. A tremendous amount of
attention and research has recently been concentrated on the inheritance
of alcoholism and on the possibility of accounting genetically for drunken
behavior. The major purpose for this research was the adoption studi .....
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Cystic Fibrosis
Words: 493 - Pages: 2.... enzymes
With meals. Those with respiratory infections are treated with antibiotics,
Mostly with aerosols that relieve constriction of the airways. Physical therapy
Is used to help patients cough up the obstructing mucus. Intestinal obstruction,
Which occurs mostly in infancy, may require surgery.
In 1989, researchers fond the abnormal gene that causes cystic fibrosis.
This gene is located on chromosome 7 . A person who has two cystic fibrosis
Genes has the disease . A person that carries one of the genes does not have the
Genetic disease, but is a carrier.
The symptoms of cystic fibrosis sometimes occur immediately after birth.
Mu .....
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Abortion
Words: 1799 - Pages: 7.... have been accused of having a 19th Century approach to life in the
last third of the 20th Century. But who in reality is using arguments of a
bygone Century? It is an incontrovertible fact of biological science - Make no
Mistake - that from the moment of conception, a new human life has been created.
Only those who allow their emotional passion to overide their knowledge,
can deny it: only those who are irrational or ignorant of science, doubt that
when a human sperm fertilizes a human ovum a new human being is created. A new
human being who carries genes in its cells that make that human being uniquely
different from any and other h .....
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