Papers on Health and Medicine
The Cost Of Sleep Deprivation
Words: 925 - Pages: 4.... sleep. In the past century, the average time asleep has been reduced by twenty percent, and in the past twenty-five years, a month has been added to our average work and commute time. Whatever the case may be, the effects of sleep deprivation are not so widely known. Three common symptoms seen in studies of prolonged sleep deprivation are a deep negative energy balance, the suppression of the immune system, and an odd change in patterns of sleep.
Perhaps the most obvious effect sleeplessness has on a person is the negative energy balance. This occurs because the thyroid hormone expends more energy than is actually being metabolized. .....
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The Nervous System: Brain And Spinal Cord
Words: 557 - Pages: 3.... action, which includes speaking,
the five senses, movement, memory, and thinking .Thc second major part of
the brain is the cerebellum. The cerebellum commands balance coordination
and posture. The last major part of the brain is the medulla it is in
charge of heartbeat digestion, breathing sleeping and being awake. These
are all the involuntary function of the body This part of the brain is the
connector between the spinal cord and the cerebrum.
The spinal cord belongs to the C.N.S. It is the most important
bones of your lower back and it controls movement and mostly every thing in
the body it has nerves. If you do not have a spin .....
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From The Menstral Cycle To Birth
Words: 478 - Pages: 2.... the release of FSH and LH. Without FSH and LH the corpus luteum deteriorates causing uterine contraction to expell the endometrium. However, if the egg is fertilized the level of estrogen and progesterone must remain high so the endometrium is not shed. The outer layer of the egg mass(blastocyct) produces a hormone(HCG) to maintain the corpus luteum for the first 3 months of pregnancy so it can provide high levels of estrogen and progesterone. After the third month the placenta provides enough estrogen and progesterone to maintain the endometrium and also to inhibit further ovulation. Conception is when the egg and the sperm meet in the ov .....
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Drug Abuse
Words: 1015 - Pages: 4.... crime rate will sky rocket if we let this behavior continue.
Illegal drugs and their abusers are a plague to society for many different reasons.. Drugs have very harmful effects on the user and the people with whom the user interacts. The user is affected in many ways. The most popular drug in America, alcohol, is generally thought of as socially acceptable and relatively harmless. But it can have devastating effects. Alcohol might seem very harmless but it can harm the user very easily. Alcohol is easy to obtain and consume. It is taken as a beverage and, since it is legal, it can be purchased at the corner store. The immediate effects on .....
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The Worlds Fight Against Microbes
Words: 2210 - Pages: 9.... range from a mild
illness to death (CDC I).
The Ebola virus is a member of a family of RNA (ribonucleic acid)
viruses known as filoviruses. When these viruses are magnified several thousand
times by an electron microscope they have the appearance of long filaments or
threads. Filoviruses can cause hemorrhagic fever in humans and animals, and
because of this they are extremely hazardous. Laboratory studies of these
viruses must be carried out in special maximum containment facilities, such as
the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia and the United States
Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), a .....
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Abnormal Psychology: Mental Disorders
Words: 2495 - Pages: 10.... many years after the first infection. Another possible cause for the
disorder is a genetic disposition. This has yet to be proven but it is thought
of as a likely cause since children who have a parent with the disorder have a
ten times greater chance of developing the illness than children who have
abnormal parents. If both parents have the disorder the chance of their off
spring having the disorder jumps to forty times that of of an off spring with
normal parents. Some times as equally as important as finding what causes
a disease is finding what does not cause a disease. It is said that
Schizophrenia is: not caused by a domine .....
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Multiple Sclerosis
Words: 988 - Pages: 4.... the cause of Multiple Sclerosis. There
is a kind of deadlock among scientists and doctors whether it's hereditary,
viral, or a combination of the two, with the disease being hereditary, but with
a viral trigger, or just a simple chemical imbalance in the immune system. One
thing is certain, though. Some sort of defect in the immune system causes white
blood cells to attack and destroy the myelin sheath.
There are five main types of Multiple Sclerosis. The first type is Benign
Multiple Sclerosis. It is the least severe, has little progression, and takes up
twenty percent of all cases. The second type is Benign Relapsing-Remitting
Mu .....
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Abortion
Words: 372 - Pages: 2.... is very young and inexperienced or too poor to take care of the
child. The child is usually malnourished, has no medical care, and gets very
little attention or love. The foster care system isn't any better. Only a
small percentage of the children are adopted by suitable parents. But the rest
remain in the foster care system, where there is little or no personal care.
In both cases, the child has a poor education because of the lack of attention
and discipline. He grows up to be unproductive individual or a menace to society.
Many get involved in drugs and crimes. These individuals are also very violent,
lacking morality due small am .....
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Suicide - Is Suicide Wrong?
Words: 553 - Pages: 3.... Jews made it impossible for the Jews to try and win in combat.
Eleazar figured that it would be best for his people to take the victory
away from the Romans by robbing them of their glory. Eleazar's plan was a
success and history may well justify the act of suicide. I talked to both
my parents and asked them what they would do in this situation. My mom felt
that it was wrong to commit suicide in this case because the Jews didn't
even try to put up a fight. As she put it, "Even if the Jews did lose,
their lives may have been spared." My dad felt that suicide was the best
thing to do given the circumstances
In the Bible, Mark 14:32-42 deal .....
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Cardiovascular Disease
Words: 1330 - Pages: 5.... disease, 52.2 percent are male and 47.8 percent are female. Of thirty-five countries surveyed in 1991, the United States cardiovascular death rate ranked 17th for both males and females. The highest death rates were in the Soviet Union, Romania, Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia. The lowest were in Japan, France, Spain, Switzerland, and Canada. (Goldstein, 1995)
Biological theories abound state that women tend to have better chances of not developing Cardiovascular disease. In one study, (Mendelson, 1999) Estrogen therapy in postmenopausal women has been associated with a decreased risk of heart disease Women are less susceptib .....
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