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- 10011: AIDS: US Made?
- ... in about a year, at which point opportunistic illnesses occur. Disorders in various organ systems also occur, the most severe in the brain, the symptoms of which range from motor disorders to severe dementia and death. The Segals note that despite the fact that AIDS is transmitted only through sexual intercourse, blood transfusions and non- sterile hypodermic needles, the infection has spread dramatically. During the first few years after its discovery ...
- 10012: Medical Conditions of Concentration Camps
- ... sent away to anatomy hospitals. One of the most desired places to be by doctors was Block 10. Block 10 was in Auschwitz and was a medical block. It meant the difference between life and death for many people in Auschwitz. There were benefits and disadvantages to being there for both the doctors and the prisoners. For a doctor it was seen as a chance to do any and all experiments ...
- 10013: Rabies
- ... depression, restlessness, fatigue, and a fever. This is followed by a period of excitability, excessive salivation, and convulsions, especially in throat spasms. The victim is unable to drink although he or she is extremely thirsty. Death from paralysis and suffocation follows within ten days. Once the symptoms of rabies have appeared, there is no possible treatment for the disease. The first vaccine against rabies was developed in France during the 1880 ...
- 10014: Counselors
- Counselors Clients often come to counselors to change their lives in some way, such as to become more assertive. As likely, clients seek counseling as a result of some change, prehaps a death or different working conditions. Clients ofren find themselves in the midsyt of some change they do not understand or over which they have little control. In its most general form, counseling provides a context for ...
- 10015: Breast Implants
- ... cancer is diagnosed, 9,200 will not yet be forty--nearly twice the number of women under forty who were found to have breast cancer in 1970. "The disease is now the leading cause of death for American women aged forty to fifty-five, and causes women to lose more years of productive life than any other disease. Numbers like these are why breast cancer is often called an epidemic" (Plotkin ...
- 10016: AIDS
- ... year, at which point opportunistic illnesses occur. Parallel to this syndrome, disorders in various organ systems occur, the most severe in the brain, the symptoms of which range from motoric disorders to severe dementia and death. This set of symptoms, say the Segals, is identical in every detail with the Visna sickness which occurs in sheep, mainly in Iceland. (Visna means tiredness in Icelandic). However, the visna virus is not pathogenic ...
- 10017: Bipolar Affective Disorder
- ... of hopelessness and helplessness. Some of the symptoms of a depressive episode include anhedonia, disturbances in sleep and appetite, psycomoter retardation, loss of energy, feelings of worthlessness, guilt, difficulty thinking, indecision, and recurrent thoughts of death and suicide (Hollandsworth, Jr. 1990 ). The manic episodes are characterized by elevated or irritable mood, increased energy, decreased need for sleep, poor judgment and insight, and often reckless or irresponsible behavior (Hollandsworth, Jr. 1990 ). Bipolar ...
- 10018: Antibiotics
- ... each cell differ enough for the antibiotic to be able to decipher the different methods. Antibiotics are the safest kinds of drugs when properly used, but misuse could lead to dangerous side effects or even death. There are three main dangerous reactions to the antibiotics are one is allergic reactions, two is the eradication of good microbes, and three is the damage of organs and tissues. Most allergic reactions are not ...
- 10019: Alcohol Abuse
- ... coping skill, and the belief that the use of alcohol to reduce life's stress is socially acceptable. Another area in which alcohol is looked at as all right, comes during the aging process. The death of a spouse, job relocation, retirement, or loss of health put older people at risk of alcoholism and is identified as having late-onset alcoholism (McFarland 458). Alcoholism can be divided into several subtypes. Gamma ...
- 10020: The Ebola Virus
- ... CDC, http://www.cdc.gov/] The Ebola and Marburg virus causes sever hemorhagic fever in humans . Between 5 and 7 days sever haemorrhages form on every orifice of the body. Between 7 and 16 days, death occurs either from shock or loss of blood. The Reston virus causes hemorhagic fever in monkeys but has no serious effects on humans. The most virulent strand of Ebola is the Ebola Zaire virus. This ...
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