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Meniere's Symptoms
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 504.... Although Meniere's usually affects only one ear, it can occasionally develop in both ears.
Your doctor can confirm a diagnosis of Meniere's. Then you and your doctor can discuss how Meniere's affects your life and develop a plan to manage your symptoms. Treatment options include lifestyle changes, medications, medical procedures, and certain types of surgery.
Meniere's disease is almost always idiopathic, which means that no specific cause for the disease can be found. At this time, Meniere's disease has no cure. But the uncomfortable symptoms of Meniere's can be managed. .....
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Prader-Willi Syndrome
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1433.... control thay will eat bottlecaps,glass,pencils,garbage,bugs,dogfood, and
anything else they can stuff in their mouths.
"The ingenuity and determination of PWS children in surreptitiously obtaining
edibles is almost legendary and belies their cognitive defects. Serial weighing
may be the only way to discover whether such a child is, in fact, stealing
food"(Finey,1983).
PWS occurs in about l in 10,000 births. It occurs in both males and females
equally and is found in people of all races and all nations.It is one of the ten
most common conditions seen in genetics clinics.
Youn .....
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Diseases: Sex Linked And Sex Influenced
Number of pages: 11 | Number of words: 3011.... (Science News 380). In patients of
hemophilia, there is a deficiency of a protein needed for blood clotting,
causing this hereditary bleeding disorder. In red/green color blindness, the
broadest form of color blindness that affects six percent of the population, the
cones in the retina that receive green light do not function properly. Unlike
sex linked diseases, sex influenced diseases are not reserved solely for the
male. However, the diseases occur in males much more frequently than in females.
This is because sex influenced diseases occur from imbalances in testosterone, .....
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Euthanasia - Immoral Or Human Right?
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 504.... to be a
burden. If a person has had a car accident which paralyses him from neck
and down, and is doomed to sit in a wheelchair for the rest of his life, he
knows that he will be 100% dependant on the ones that care for him, his
lived ones, forever. It can also be mentioned that the life quality of a
terminally ill patient, gets reduced a lot. Never being able to walk again,
never being able to talk to your children again, never being able to go
shopping, swimming, playing, driving etc. must be terrible for anyone. The
whole situation only gets worse, if the patient himself, .....
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Autism
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 536.... people are around them, including family members. Another thing that separates them from the mentally retarded is their display of strange postures, manners, habits, and compulsions. They might display rocking, hand flapping, strange food preferences, no eye contact, head banging, an insensitivity to pain, and other dangerous behavior. They are also often infatuated with inanimate objects.
About 50 % of all autistic individuals are mute, or only speak once or twice in their entire life span. Non mute autistic people can produce words and sentences, but have trouble usin .....
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Cigarettes
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1606.... by this time when it comes to and addiction. Nicotine information is but a click away. Tobacco companies should no longer have the obligation to warn their customers, except if a new ingredient is added, in which case they should be notified. No one is saying get rid of the Surgeon General warnings, but enough is enough! If a person wants to smoke 3 packs of a day, then that is their choice; tobacco companies should not be held responsible. Let us examine the hype surrounding the supposed danger and addition of nicotine. The Food and Drug Administration tells us that .....
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Teen Smoking
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 537.... the ages of fifteen and seventeen. Over more than four hours of
conversation, it became clear that most teens smoked for two seemingly
contradictory reasons: They want to be part of a peer group, while rejecting
society and its norms. They want to reach out and rebel at the same
time."(Roberts 38) Tobacco companies spend four billion dollars each year in
advertising and promotional costs and claim there is no health risk. Six hundred
thousand people die every year from smoking related illness, and others quit.
Teenagers are not concerned about their health. The tobacco indu .....
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Abortion: Pro-life - Reilyism Speech
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 781.... of here are not alive. The human specie is only fully grown at
adulthood, many of us here are not adults yet -- and by that definition, it
wouldn't matter if your shot and killed on the street because "your not
fully developed". We are a stage in development -- teenager -- just like a
child is, just like a toddler is, just like an old man is, and just like a
aborted child is. There is no magical transformation that occurs when a
child is born. He has the same basic needs to survive before he is born,
and the same needs after he is born.
The negative is going to attemp .....
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