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Sexual Transmitted Diseases Defined
... it because of an infected mother. People with a sexually transmitted
Disease are usually at high risk for catching other diseases. There are more
male infections reported than female cases. This is caused by prostitutes and
homosexual contacts. 50 percent or more infections result from homosexual
contacts. Other infections like syphilis, herpes, and HIV infection may be
passed on to the fetus or during childbirth. The fetus or baby can suffer from
the disease and can die from it. The helping of STDs has three parts:
treatment, counseling, and following up. Sometimes treatment is given in a
single dose but in s ...
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Ritalin And Its Uses
... Are doctors just catching this disabling affliction more often? Or
does society just want a convenient way to solve a complicated problem.
Ritalin is a central nervous system stimulant that is somewhat similar
to amphetamines. It was created in 1955, classified as a controlled substance
in 1971, and became the drug of choice for ADHD in 1981. It is also used in
treating narcolepsy. It is thought to activate the brain stem arousal system
and cortex, and, like cocaine, works on the neurotransmitter dopamine. It
appears to increase the levels of dopamine in the frontal lobe where attention
and impul ...
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The Skeletal System
... varies, because some bones fuse at different periods of time. Most bones are hollow with marrow cells inside. Ligaments connect bones to bones, and tendons connect bones to muscles.
Axial Skeleton and Appendicular skeleton:
The skeleton are divided into appendicular skeleton (bones of arms and legs or "appendage", and girdler, which attach them to the rest of the body), and axial skeleton (skull, backbone or "vertebrae," ribs and breast bone, or "sternum").
Axial Skeleton
The skull is made up of number of bones fused together. The backbone is composed of 33 separate different size and shaped vertebrae, and ...
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Issues Of Assisted Suicide
... do not regard it as murder.” Stephen J. Potts, a resident of psychiatry at Maudsley Hospital in London quotes, “I believe that if euthanasia were legalized many unnecessary and unethical killings would occur”. It is not so much the idea of a person wanting to act in assisted suicide but the fact of making it a legal practice is wrong. Suicidal people usually need help with their problems, not the help to die. They do not know the reason why they want to commit suicide they just find reasons to get the easy way out. Assisted Suicide should not be legalized because it is religiously wrong, because it is u ...
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Nursing: Think In Practical Way
... and college teachers of nursing provide advanced instruction to
students in the field of nursing. first, to be an instuctor, a person must be a
registered nurse with at least have a bachelor's degree. In today's society,
teachers usually have a master's degree. Second, their working hours varies
according to teaching load. They usually don't have a stable working hours.
Working hours really depends on their experiences, seniority, and performance.
Their job is a contract basis only. Teachers' contracts run between nine to
twelve months in a year. Third, according to EUREKA, average community college
inst ...
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Cholesterol
... in the blood, it can slowly build up within the walls of the arteries feeding the heart and brain. Together with other substances it can form plaque, a thick, hard deposit that can clog those arteries. This condition is known as atherosclerosis. The formation of a clot (or thrombus) in the region of this plaque can block the flow of blood to part of the heart muscle and cause a heart attack. If a clot blocks the flow of blood to part of the brain, the result is a stroke. A high level of LDL reflects an increased risk of heart disease. That is why LDL is often called "bad" .
comes from two sources. It’s produ ...
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Hepatitis A
... such as alcohol. Symptoms of hepatitis include loss of appetite,
dark urine, fatigue, and sometimes fever. The liver may become enlarged
and a disorder called jaundice may occur, giving the skin a yellow tinge.
Jaundice is a disorder symptomatic of several liver and blood diseases and
is characterized by yellowing of the skin and mucous membranes,
particularly the white of the eyes. Hepatogenous jaundice is caused by
liver damage, particularly hepatitis. Hepatitis exists in an acute and/or
chronic form. The acute form may subside after about two months or, rarely,
can result in liver failutre. Chronic carrie ...
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Cystic Fibrosis
... and a 50% chance of just being a carrier. If both parents are carriers than their child will have a 25% of having CF, a 50% chance of being a carrier and a 25% chance of not being affected. CF is common in both males and females, there is not a specific sex that it is more common in.
There are many symptoms to this deadly disease including: salty tasting skin, constant coughing, large amounts of mucus, trouble gaining weight, frequent greasy, foul smelling bowel, growths in the nose (nasal polyps) and clubbed or enlarged fingertips and toe tips is another symptom. Now there are many tests that can be done to find out ...
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Mobile Phone Risks
... roof or rear window. Communication between a mobile telephone and the nearest base station is achieved by the microwave emissions from the antenna.
Concerns have been raised about the type of mobile telephone that has the antenna in the handset. In this case, the antenna is very close to the user's head during normal use of the telephone and there is concern about the level of microwave emissions to which the brain is being exposed. Those telephones that have the antenna mounted elsewhere are of no concern, since exposure levels decrease rapidly with increasing distance from the antenna. Cordless telephones, which n ...
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Human Memory Organization.
... memory.
Short Term : This is where all of the perceptions we get come to. From the
eyes, nose, ears, nerves etc. They come in at such a rate, that there needs to
be a part of memory that is fast, and can sift through all of these signals, and
then pass them down the line for use, or storage. Short term memory probably has
no real capacity for storage.
Medium Term : This is where all of the information from the short term memory
comes to be processed. It analyses it, and then decides what to do with it (use
it, or store it). Here also is where stored information is called to for
processing when needed. This kin ...
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