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- 10031: Respiratory Diseases
- ... body through the nose and mouth and attack the mucous membrane where they multiply and secrete a powerful poison. The heart and central nervous system are damaged by the poison and it can lead to death. Toxoids, which are given to infants during the first year of life, are harmless forms of the diphtheria poison which immunize the children against serious infection.
- 10032: Multiple Births
- ... With current monitoring equipment, conjoined twins can be detected maturing in the mother and during birth a Cesarean section is sometimes needed to deliver the children safely. Separation of the twins sometimes leads to the death of one or both of the twins. This births are a rare event, occurring only about once in every fifty-thousand births. Other forms of multiple births such as triplets, quadruplets and quintuplets, occur very ...
- 10033: Mad Cow Disease
- ... difficulty in rising, decreased milk production, or loss of body condition despite continued appetite [Kent p.10]. However it has been noted the signs in American cows is much different. They instead stagger to their death like downer cows do. "A downer cow" is referring to the industry term which describes cows who fall down and are too sick to get up [Greger p.4]. There is no treatment so all ...
- 10034: Huntington's Disease
- ... Disease Huntington's disease, also known as Huntington's chorea is a genetic disorder that usually shows up in someone in their thirties and forties, destroys the mind and body and leads to insanity and death within ten to twenty years. The disease works by degenerating the ganglia (a pair of nerve clusters deep in the brain that controls movement, thought, perception, and memory) and cortex by using energy incorrectly. The ...
- 10035: The Human Genome Project
- ... of consequential choices for public and professional deliberation. As Thomas Lee writes, "the effort underway is unlike anything ever before attempted, if successful, it could lead to our ultimate control of human disease, aging, and death". Whatever its justification, the human genome project has already inspired society with the hope of "better" babies, and one way to deploy pragmatism in the analysis of genetic engineering is to look at this promise ...
- 10036: Diseases: Sex Linked and Sex Influenced
- ... one in four. Therefore the incidence of hemophilia is familial, as in the Russian royal family. In hemophiliacs ,the tendency to bleed becomes noticeable at a young age and leads to severe anemia or even death. Hemophiliacs often have large bruises and soft tissue of the skin from incidents as small as lightly bumping into something. This bruising is much like the bruising of the elderly. Not only will bruises form ...
- 10037: Cystic Fibrosis
- ... Cystic fibrosis, sometimes classified as mucoviscidosis, is a disorder In which the excrorine glands secrete abnormally thick mucus. This leads to the Obstruction of the pancreas and chronic infections of the lungs, which generally Causes death in childhood or early adulthood. Some mildly affected patients may Survive longer. Patients with pancreatic insufficiency take pancreatic enzymes With meals. Those with respiratory infections are treated with antibiotics, Mostly with aerosols that relieve constriction ...
- 10038: Cancer
- ... therefore making the cell grow at a more rapid rate. The development of the cell starts when it forms notable abnormalities in chromosomes and then multiplies exceedingly. Then metastasis usually occurs and generally causes the death of the host. There are many different cancers which form on just about all parts of the body. In the US, skin cancer is the most common cancer, then prostate cancers in males, and then ...
- 10039: Dreams
- ... interpretations of dreams and the meanings of certain dream symbols commonly found in dreams. The Egyptian dream interpreters used the theory of opposites in their interpretations (Parker and Parker 11). For example, to dream of death was a omen of long life (Parker and Parker 11). The Greeks interpretations of dreams was almost opposite that the other cultures during this period, (Parker and Parker). For instance: The Greeks thought that a ...
- 10040: Is More Than One Cause of AIDS Possible?
- ... his face. He has just been told that he is HIV positive. Due to the statement that is taken as fact in the media, HIV causes AIDS, he takes his being HIV positive as a death sentence. This happens every day in the United States and the reaction is virtually the same across the board. In an article called What Causes AIDS? It's an Open Question, a trio of doctors ...
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