Papers on Health and Medicine
Meningitis
Words: 682 - Pages: 3.... the spinal fluid there is no white blood cells so it cant be fought off. Once the infection starts, it can spread very quickly thought the body. can cause a lot of brain damage in a little while, and can kill in 24 hours.
The disease is often followed by a variety of after-effects, some permenant and physically disabling and some less obvious, affecting the patient emotionally. Although many people will make a quick and complete recovery others will need a lot of support and care over the weeks and months following there illness. Unfortunately it is impossible to predict which after-effects if any an individual will suffer from. The .....
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Reproductive Technologies: Does Choice Mean Freedom?
Words: 1715 - Pages: 7.... true freedom of choice but a choice which
is basically decided for her, whether it be by the limited choices made
available to her by medical science or by the men which are directly involved
with them in the decision.
In order to truly understand this issue we must look at it's core,
reproductive technology. This is a vast area to discuss because it ranges from
artificial insemination to abortion to contraception to genetic engineering with
many area in between.
Artificial insemination is the introduction of sperm to an ovum
artificially either inside or outside the female genital tract. Abortion is the
"extermination of pregnancy .....
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Amico Acids - The Building Blocks Of Life
Words: 752 - Pages: 3.... When POOF! They say there arose an amino
acid. Blub blub blub blub, POOF! There arose another amino acid. A bunch
ofamino acids got together and formed peptides, polypeptides, and a
combination of amino acids formed protein molecules. The building block
necessary for life. And that you had this inorganic matter somehow become
living matter. Dr Herald Bloom points out, he says, "The problem is how do
we know, that if there arose a peptide, a combination of amino acids, that
the second peptide would not arise 5 thousand years later 10 thousand miles
away. How would it come together with hundreds of combinations even to
form the simplest p .....
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Bubonic Plague
Words: 309 - Pages: 2.... of the disease, are your back starts to hurt and
painful swelling of your lymph nodes. Hard lumps filled with blood and puss
called "boboes",from which the disease gets it name, form on various parts of
your lymphatic system, such as your neck, inner thigh, groin, and armpits.
This stage is the most painful. Blood vessels break and later the dry blood
turns black underneath your skin.
The treatment for the plague is a vaccine that lasts 6 months. You can use the
preferred vaccine Streptomycin, or gentamicin, teracyclines, or chloramphenicol
are all good substitutes. The treatment must start within 15 hours of the first
symptom of d .....
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AIDS And YOU
Words: 3430 - Pages: 13.... in Africa about 20 years ago.
There it first appeared as a mysterious ailment afflicting primarily
heterosexuals of both sexes. It probably was spread especially fast by
primarily female prostitutes there. AIDS has already become a crisis of
STAGGERING proportions in parts of Africa. In Zaire, it is estimated that
over twenty percent of the adults currently carry the virus. That figure
is increasing. And what occurred there will, if no cure is found, most
likely occur here among heterosexual folks.
AIDS was first seen as a disease of gay males in this country.
This was a result of the fact that gay males in this culture in the days .....
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Gut Issues
Words: 526 - Pages: 2.... the other carbohydrates,
fibres do not break down into sugars in the human digestive system and
then course through the blood stream fueling muscles and nerves. Rather,
when eaten they tumble intact through the stomach and small intestine and
end up in the colon where billions of bacterial feed on them - in turn
producing intestinal gas. No wonder, then, that dietary fibre has been
unwelcome in many of history's nicer neighborhoods.
Even 20th century doctors reasoned that since the bulky material provided
not a single nutrient, it would only strain already troubled guts.
Accordingly, they recommended low-fibre diets for patients suff .....
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The Circulatory System
Words: 521 - Pages: 2.... in turn divide into smaller ones until the entire body is supplied by series of blood vessels. Portal circulation in addition to the pulmonary and systematic circulations described above, a subsidery to the venous system exists, known as portal circulation. A certain amount of blood from the intestine is collected into the portal vein and carried to the liver.
Coronary circulation is the means by which the heart tissues themselves are supplied with nutrients and oxygen and are freed of wastes. Just beyond the semiluna valves, two coronary arteries branch from the aorta.
Heart action consists of systole and relaxation of the muscular .....
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Gregor Mendel's Theories Of Genetic Inheritance
Words: 336 - Pages: 2.... can be divided into four main ideas. The
first idea is that alternative versions of genes account for variations in
inherited characters. Different alleles will create different variations in
inherited characters. The sescond idea is that for each character, an organism
inherits two genes, one form each parent. So this means that a homolohous loci
may have matching alleles, as in the true-breeding plants of Mendel's P
generation(parental). If the alleles differ, then there will be F hybrids. The
third idea states that if the two alleles differ, the receessive allele will
have no affect on the organism's appearance. So a F hybrid .....
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Hemispheres Of The Brain
Words: 1736 - Pages: 7.... missing of the skull. Whether
or not these primitive surgeries were successful is unknown. The earliest way
for man to observe the brain was by noticing brain damage to a particular area
of the brain that was damaged. Such observations were first recorded some 5,000
years ago (Myers,1995). The most popular case is that of Phineas Gage a
railroad worker that had severe frontal lobe damage. This happened when a rail
road spike was shot through his head by a piece of dynamite. Miraculously he
lived through the experience, but with a severe change in his personality. From
this physiologists learned that personality was largely cont .....
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Euthanasia
Words: 2546 - Pages: 10.... individual facing death, not with the State, the Legislature, the Medical Association, or with any other person.
The idea of active is very old. Plato, Aristotle, and Luther- all eminent figures of history recommended it, but at the present, the only legal ways of ending life are abortion, capital punishment, war, and suicide.
The issue of “assisted suicide” has been the subject of intense national debate. In June 1997 the U.S. Supreme Court handed down decisions in two cases challenging the legality of state bans on “assisted suicide”. In both cases the Court found that there was no constitutional right to assisted suicide and tu .....
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