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Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1761

.... stress at work by people who work on assembly lines or keyboards, or athletes such as swimmers and baseball pitchers. All of the above predisposing factors ultimately lead to the narrowing of the costoclavicular space in the shoulder. This injury is most commonly an overuse injury. This is due to the cause of the build up of scar tissue on the muscles of the neck by there being a stretching injury to the neck muscles. The tight muscles press against the nerves to the arm causing the symptoms. Neck pain and headaches are caused tightness of the neck muscles. Treatment for .....


James Rachels' Death And Dying
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1725

.... Euthanasia is an ancient word that means "easy death." There is also the issue of morality. Would killing someone by their own will or suicide be a moral act? What about a patient that is suffering from cancer? Is it moral to let that person suffer? These are some of the many questions people have been trying to answer for year without success. Euthanasia is a very uncomfortable subject to talk about for most people because who wants to think about having to kill oneself or a person that is dear to his or her life. Even though nobody wants to go through the h .....


Heart Cells
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 429

.... the possibility that scientists can develop medical treatments to enhance cell division and restore healthy heart muscle. It is too soon, however, to know to what extent such treatments might repair damaged hearts, such as those suffering congenital heart disease. Scientist and researchers at the University of Udine in Italy, studied hearts removed from 27 people who had received transplants. The researchers stained slices of heart tissue half a micrometer thick and used a confocal microscope to count the individual cell nuclei caught in the process of division. Jud .....


Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Lou Gherig's Disease)
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 445

.... not receive information from your brain. Your muscles then become useless and begin to deteriorate. Symptoms of ALS include: Tripping and falling Loss of motor control in hands and arms Difficulty speaking and swallowing or difficulty breathing Persistent fatigue Twitching and cramping, sometimes severely As ALS progresses, all voluntary muscles become useless. The patient cannot eat, breathe or communicate with others. Total life support may be the only thing keeping them alive. ALS can lead to total paralysis. Although there is no cure, medications such as sia .....


Osteoporosis And Effects Of Gavity And Space
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1393

.... vital organs like the brain], serves as a complex lever system, acts as a storage area for calcium which is vital for human metabolism, houses the bone marrow within its mid cavity and to top it all it is capable of changing its architecture and mass in response to outside and inner stress. It is this dynamic remodeling of bone which is of primary interest in microgravity. To feel the impact of this dynamicity it should be noted that a bone remodeling unit [a coupled phenomena of bone reabsorption and bone formation] is initiated and another finished about every ten seco .....


Abortion Should Be Made Illegal
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 844

.... (Young 25- 27) Take this for example; Say a woman is walking down the street carrying a child in her arms. Another woman is walking down that same street carrying a child, only this woman is carrying the child in her. Both children are dependent on their mothers, both just dependent in different ways. (Schwarz 35) Take another example "Suppose a woman suffers a miscarriage, A sympathetic doctor will not tell her, "You have lost your fetus"; he will say; "You have lost your child"." (Schwarz 35) If an abortion is picked the term "fetus" is used as a cold scientific "neutr .....


AIDS/HIV
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 626

.... (Acquired ImmunoDifficiency Syndrome) weakens the bodyıs immune system so it is sensitive to infection. The AIDS virus primarily attacks the T lymphocytes, which are a main part of the immune system. The virus is also incubated in cells called macrophages, where it is accidentally sent to other, healthy cells in the body like neurons and lymphatic cells. After HIV is contracted, the person looks and feels healthy for up to 20 years before symptoms start occurring. During this time, the person can give the virus to another even though it cannot be detected by sight or .....


Melatonin And The Pineal Gland
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 2148

.... a message of how much sunlight they see, and when it's dark. The sunlight prohibits the gland from producing melatonin, so at night, when there's no sun, the sleep-inducing hormone is released into our bodies. Because of the pineal gland and melatonin, humans have known to sleep at night and wake during the day since long before the age of alarm clocks. Humans don't produce melatotin right from birth; it is transfered in utero to babies through the placenta. For their first few days of life, babies still have to receive it from breast milk. Our levels of melatonin pea .....



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