.... abnormally high salt content. Cystic fibrosis is due to an inborn error of metabolism that is inherited as a recessive trait. In families where both parents ae carriers, approximately 25% of all the offspring will have the diswase, although the incidence may vary from one family to the next. The disease is relatively common to Caucasions, usually among Negroes, and very rare in Mongolians. In the United States, about 1 in every 2000 children is born with the disease, and 5% of the population are carriers. In the days before antibiotics, patients succumbed to bronchopheumonia or malnutrition, and the underlying cause was not recognized. .....

.... so quickly. It was not until the last decade that transplantation of animal organs into humans became a realistic goal. Thanks to Jeffery Platt, a professor of experimental surgery at Duke University Medical center who devoted his career to the understanding of how the human immune system recognizes foreign implanted tissue and rejects it. He concluded that the immune system works likes an army with several lines of defense to protect the body from infection by foreign organisms such as bacteria and parasites. This line of defense will also attack a foreign organ. It will do this by gradually causing an ischemic blockage of the organs blood .....

.... the price of malpractice insurance on most doctors. For instance, a doctor who would have had to pay Rs. 125 annually now has to pay up to Rs. 1500. These costs will only be passed along to the patients in the long run, and the condition is only going to worsen. Take for example the United States, where surgeons annually pay an average of $75,000 on insurance premiums. On top of these premiums, doctors who practice very defensively add as much as $21 billion US to the health care bill every year. Twenty percent of the tests prescribed by doctors were not necessary, but they are the result of defensive practising by doctors who do no .....

.... and keratosis pilaris. Eczema has always seemed to be a genetic skin disease, but until recently the researchers have been unable to identify a specific gene involved in the passing on of eczema. Now, doctors believe they have found a gene that causes eczema, but since it is not present in all cases of eczema, they believe that there is more than one gene that can cause eczema. Also, a maternal pattern of inheritance has been discovered. Doctors and researchers believe that this maternal inheritance pattern is due to modification in the immune responses in utero, or via breast milk. CAN ECZEMA BE CURED? There is no way to absolut .....

.... and other earlier settlers had no idea at that time what alcohol did to them . Alcohol has also been used as a tranquilizer , sedative , stimulant , and as an intoxicant. (History of Alcohol , page 1) Alcohol has played a significant role in religious backgrounds and ceremonies in the past. In Greece there was a god of wine which was named Bacchus. The Romans drank vast amounts of wine and other alcoholic beverages. Wine and beer both have a very long background and or history. Alcohol was used to supposedly relieve stress and the drudgery of day to day life. (History of Alcohol , page1) Gin houses used advertisements like " drinkers .....

.... also differed with their respect towards paradigmatic assumptions, learning and development, and relationship towards educational practice. Freud is known as the father of psychology. Although some of his work has been dismissed, most of it still holds weight in the world of psychology. Freud believed that human development was fueled by inner forces. He believed the most powerful of all inner forces was our sexual being. Freud linked everything with sex. This includes any bodily pleasure whatsoever. Thus, when Freud discusses the sexual needs of children, they are not the same kind of sexual needs that an adult would experience. Children .....

.... eyes (sometimes Brushfield spots on the irises), smaller than normal features, such as smaller ears or a smaller nose, short stubby fingers, a single palmar crease on their hands, and having exceptional social intelligence. Because Down Syndrome is cause by a cell abnormality during meiosis, it can not really be proven that Down Syndrome is hereditary. A perfectly healthy mother could have a Down Syndrome baby even though there was never any sign of the disorder in her pedigree. There are however, three different kinds of Down Syndrome. 95% of Down Syndrome babies have Trisomy 21. This is the presence of extra genetic material on the .....

.... To make such a stitch, the surgeon's hands will move no more than the width of the folded side of a piece of paper seen end on! Imagine trying to sew two pieces of spaghetti together and you'll have some idea of what microsurgery involves. Twenty-five years ago, this man's thumb would have been lost. But in the 1960s, surgeon's began using microscopes to sew what previously had been almost invisible blood vessels and nerves in limbs. Their sewing technique had been developed on large blood vessels over a half century earlier but could not be used in microsurgery until the needles and sutures became small enough. The surgical technique, st .....

.... tone, lose of fine motor coordination,odor of alcohol on the breath,and a stagging "drunken"gait. The effects of alcohol intoxication are greatly influenced by individual variations among users. Some users may become intoxicated at a much lower Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) level that I am about to show you. Along with drinking their are different levels to it: 0.02-0.03 BAC: No loss of coorination,slight euphoria and loss of shyness. Depressant effects are not apparent. 0.04-0.06 BAC: Feeling of well-being, relaxation, lower inhibitions, sensation of warmth. Some minor impairment of reasoning and memory, lowering of caution. 0.07-0 .....

.... of them is Psalm 139. This psalm is the record of David's praise for God's control in his life. For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. (vv. 13-16) Here David speaks of God's relationship with him while he was growing and developing before birth. "David is .....