... of inheriting the disease. Once it is transmitted, it is certain to develop. The disease may progress for 10 to 20 years until the patient dies. No treatment yet exists for this disease. However, in 1983 a U.S. research team announced the discovery of an identifiable segment of DNA that can be used as an indicator of the presence of the gene causing the disease. In March 1993, the journal Cell announced that the Huntington's Disease Collaborative Research Group had discovered the gene behind the disease. This was a major breakthrough in the effort to understand and eventually work toward a treatment of the disord ...

... of stressor. Hassles can cause quite a bit of stress, but they are nothing compared to a catastrophe. Catastrophes are unpredictable events that can change your life permanently. The biggest catastrophe in my life was when my best friend, Dre, died. It was hard for me because I knew what was happening to him but there was nothing I could do about it. My parents didn't know about him so I couldn't turn to them. I couldn't turn to my boyfriend because he wouldn't understand or care. Dre was the one person I could always turn to, and when I lost him my life changed forever. The death of a loved one is usually ...

... Arnold Levine of Princeton University. It wasn't until 1982 that biologists isolated the gene and found that it seemed to cause cancer. In 1989 Levine and Volgelstein found that the gene was responsible for killing tumors. This is when cancer research took a turn and began to focus on the “molecule of the year�, as proclaimed by Science magazine. Recently, Nikola Pavelitch of New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center was able to get a photo of the gene, and she notices that when the disease (cancer) is forming, rogue molecules are present that keep it from performing its good deeds. There have since ...

... or using laxatives or a combination of both to rid the body of the food that was just eaten before it has a chance to digest. The typical pattern is to start by eating something like apple peels or corn. They are not easily digested. That is followed by mass quantities of junk food. Common foods that are used for bingeing are foods that can be obtained easily without much notice such as McDonalds or Kentucky Fried Chicken. These foods can be obtained by driving up to a window to order them. No one pays much attention to a person in a car who is ordering large quantities of food. After eating the person vomi ...

... breathe on your own. The potential advantages of the epidural anesthesia include less blood loss and less risk of lung problems and blood clots in the legs. Also, the epidural can be continued after your surgery to help control the pain. If you are young and/or without vascular disease, your surgeon and anesthesiologist may employ methods to lower blood pressure (hypotensive anesthesia) to conserve blood loss, and to assist in obtaining optimal fixation when acrylic bone cement is used. You will then be taken to the operating room and devices will be placed on you to monitor your heart, blood pressure, br ...

... single pack of cigarettes isn't there for nothing. It's there to prevent all of you teens to get hooked on cigarettes or even think about starting to smoke. Smoking is legal almost everywhere in the world, but it shouldn't be because Marijuana smoking isn't. Cigarettes are addictive and they usually lead the smoker to marijuana use or to other kind of drugs. That's why I think that young teenagers shouldn't start smoking at young age. All of you people out there who think that they can stop whenever they want, well I have news flash for you. 1 out of 10 smokers succeed in quitting smoking in United-States. Everyon ...

... only impose their own morals upon themselves. People believe that they have the right to decide whether their animals should continue to live or not, so why isn’t it legal to make this decision about human lives? We kill our animals because they have a terminal illness or because they are suffering. Therefore, people, as higher beings, should have the right to decide whether they want to end their suffering. Denying terminally ill patients the right to die with dignity is unfair and cruel. It is worse to keep someone alive who doesn’t want to live and suffer from pain, rather than letting them have a peace ...

... overweight and therefore eat as little as possible. This condition is both a physical illness and a psychiatric illness. Hormone changes result from the low weight and low levels of body fat. In young women menstruation stops. Anorexia nervosa can be very severe illness, including a risk of death from starvation (Encarta Encyclopedia, Internet). Anorexia nervosa is a disorder in which preoccupation with dieting and thinness leads to excessive weight loss. The individual may not acknowledge that weight loss or restricted eating is a problem (www.anorexia.com, Internet). The American Anorexia Nervo ...

... They feel so strongly about these beliefs that violence has broken out in some known instances. Pro-choice activists, on the other hand, also carry very strong points. They believe that the child inside them is their property and it's life doesn't be until birth. In 1973, the United States Supreme Court decided that as long as the baby lived in the womb, he or she would be the property of the mother. Because of this decision almost every third baby conceived in America is killed by abortion, over one and a half million babies a year (Willke vii). Many countries have followed our decision on the abortion ...

... the most treatable mental illness, yet the twenty- four million people caught in it's downward spiral each year may feel so isolated that they never seek help. But life can be joyous again, as those who have been fully treated know. There are many different ways to get help, the two major ways are Psychoanalysis and Psychopharmacology. Psychoanalysis is defined by Webster's Unabridged Edition Dictionary as: a method developed by Freud and others, of treating neuroses and some other disorders of the mind. When you undergo psychoanalysis you go to see a psychoanalyst around three times a week and you discuss ...