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- 2921: Preventing Health Problems Through Running
- ... that running has on reducing the risk of some health problems. I am doing this because I run about 40 to 60 miles per week, and my family has a history of health problems. For instance, my grandfather suffered a heart attack, and he also had cancer when he was about the age of 50. Furthermore, my grandfather, on my dad ... in Sports Illustrated, about Bruce Leonard, a marathoner with a masters degree in public health. Bruce Leonard went to study the Zuni Indian tribe. This tribe has had a bad history of diabetes until they started to run. Leonard said, After the Zuni tribe started running, "many Zuni were able to reduce or eliminate their diabetes medication."(5) My research also ...
- 2922: The Plague
- ... pestis. This is the bacterium more commonly know as the Black Death, the plague. Plague is divided into three biotypes, each associated with one of three major pandemics occurring in history. Each of these biotypes are then divided into three distinct types, classified by method of infection. The most widely know is bubonic, an infection of plague that resides in the ... third type of plague is septemic. It is spread by direct bodily fluid contact. It may also develop as a secondary result of untreated bubonic or pneumonic plague. A LITTLE HISTORY As mentioned before, the most known incidence of bubonic plague was in 14th century Europe. In 1346 reports of a terrible pestilence in China, spreading through Mesopotamia and Asia Minor ...
- 2923: AIDS and Its Causes
- ... Homosexuals or bisexual males constitute the largest group, about 60% of the reported cases. This includes 5% who were intravenuous drug as well. (2). Intravenous drug users with no previous history of homosexuality compose the next largest group, about 23% of all patients. (3). Hemophiliacs (the people who have inborn disease characterized by excesssive bleeding and occuring only in males) especially ... not exclusively via monocytes. Infected monocytes circulate to the brain and are somehow activated either to release toxic cytokines directly or to recruit other nervous damaging inflammatory cells. 4. NATURAL HISTORY OF HIV INFECTION (fig. 4) Generally, the interactions of HIV with the host immune system can be divided into 3 phase. The early ,acute phase, is characterized by the presenceof ...
- 2924: Culture from Cranium
- Culture from Cranium Author: Eliot Brown Throughout the history of anthropology it has been a popular view that people are largely products of their culture, and not the other way around. Yet culture is an exclusively human phenomenon. While ... can be almost fully created by their culture, so can a culture result almost fully from one person's intellect. There have been many cases of such things happening throughout history. Some have met with success, and some not. For the purposes of this essay I have chosen to examine one case, which, considering it's sharp deviation from the cultural ...
- 2925: Antibiotics
- ... effects desired in determining if a particular drug will do more harm than good. It is a fact that all drugs have the potential to be both beneficial and harmful. History and Future. The years between 1928 and 1940 were the most fruitful in the discovery and development of antimicrobial drugs. In 1928 Sir Alexander Fleming, a British bacteriologist, noticed that ... of Penicillium, he named the germ-killing substance penicillin. The first use of an antibiotic, however , is not known, as folk medicine has used various molds to fight infections throughout history. In 1935 a German chemist, Gerhard Domagk, discovered the first sulfa drug, prontosil. In 1941 penicillin was used to treat serious infections. The results were dramatic because patients who received ...
- 2926: How the Government May Have Created AIDS
- ... human immune system." Like it not, these documents all exist. The Kissinger Memorandum, the Army Appropriations Hearing, the articles from the World Health Organization; these are official records -- facts of history -- that can not be disputed. We also pointed out an incredible coincidence. The World Health Organization went into Central Africa in 1972 -- into an area that is known as the ... be some of the ones that are dying in famines, pestilence and bombing into the Stone Age like we just did -- I don't believe in the "Coincidence Theory of History" -- I just don't. I haven't for a long time because the CIA, the National Security Council is too brilliantly planned. They plan everything to the most minute detail ...
- 2927: The Criminalization of Knowingly Transmitting AIDS
- The Criminalization of Knowingly Transmitting AIDS Table of Contents Brief history of AIDS and the criminalization of knowingly transmitting it.......................................3 Interviews concerning the issue............................4 Reasons for the criminalization of knowingly transmitting AIDS..................................................5 Reasons against the criminalization of knowingly transmitting AIDS.....................................7 My position and conclusion.................................8 Brief History of AIDS and the Criminalization of Knowingly Transmitting It Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). The virus was discoverd independently in France in ...
- 2928: Senility
- ... is often difficult to differentiate depression from dementia (Bunch, 1997, p. 109). Nevertheless, sudden onset - especially if proceeded by an emotional event, the presence of the sleep disturbances and a history of previous psychiatric illness - is a suggestive of depression (Bunch, 1997, p.109). The level of mental functioning of patients with depression is often inconsistent. They may, for example, be ... Smart, 1984, p.321). For physicians, an important aspect of diagnosing patients with dementia is detecting potentially reversible causes, which may be responsible for the impaired mental functions. A detailed history followed by a meticulous and thorough clinical examination and a few selected laboratory tests are usually sufficient to reach a diagnosis (Horton and Smart, 1984, p.322). Various investigators have ...
- 2929: Abortion: Points of View
- ... the abortion debate from several perspectives, focusing on the question of when the fetus' life as a person begins. Toward that end I have divided my presentation into four areas: History, Medicine, Law, and Bible. History provides insight into how other people and cultures have approached this issue. Medicine discusses scientific evidence relating to the topic. Law considers how the Constitution bears on this debate and ...
- 2930: A Reborn Nation by a New Democracy (Mao Tse-Tung)
- ... the alignment of the revolutionary pressures (Tse-Tung, 1). The socialist system eventually replaces the capitalist system. The flip side occurs when the reactionaries try to delay the course of history, causing the revolution to work successfully. This relates with the communism system of proletarian ideology and a new social system. It is different than any other ideological and social system, and exemplifies many characteristics. It is a progressive, completed revolution that stands as a rational system in human history. Tse-tung agreed that China is carrying out a revolution in the social system, as well as in technology. More public ownership is currently beginning to replace the traditional Chinese ...
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