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  • Radiation Therapy Causes Boop
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    Bronchiolitis Obliterans Organizing Pneumonia: BOOP The characteristic of organizing pneumonia is the appearance of tissue in the distal bronchioles. BOOP can be classified by 1) its cause 2) the cause is undetermined 3) its cryptogenic organizing pneumonia (idiopathic type). About one-half of all cases of BOOP are idiopathic. BOOP on x-ray can also be confused with chronic pneumonia (CEP). The difference between the two is that BOOP has consolidation in the lower lobes of the lung and CEP conso...
  • Main Symptoms Of Alzheimer's Disease
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    An Exploration of one of the Most Mysterious Diseases Alzheimer's disease, named after Dr. Alois Alzheimer, is a disease that is on the rise in America and the rest of the world. People should learn as much as they want about this disease, because as you age, your chances of becoming an Alzheimer's Disease, or AD, patient increases. It is estimated that approximately 3 percent of Americans between the ages of 65 and 74 have the illness, and more than half of all people over age 85 have the ailme...
  • Spaniards Immunity To Smallpox And The Indians
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    The greatest adversary to the natives in the Americas was not the swords or guns of the invaders. It was the devastation brought by deadly diseases infecting an unsuspecting population that had no immunity to such diseases. The Europeans were said to be thoroughly diseased by the time Columbus set sail on his first voyage (Cowley, 1991). Through the domestication of such animals as pigs, horses, sheep, and cattle, the Europeans exposed themselves to a vast array of pathogens which continued to b...
  • Pleurisy And Pleural Effusion
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    In normal breathing, the lungs expand and contract easily and rhythmically within the ribcage. To facilitate this movement and lubricate the moving parts, each lung is enveloped in a moist, smooth, two-layered membrane (the pleura). The outer layer of this membrane lines the ribcage, and between the layers is a virtually imperceptible space (the pleural space), which permits the layers to glide gently across each other. If either of your pleurae becomes inflamed and roughened, the gliding proces...
  • Pasteur's Germ
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    Early Health and Medicine Today our personal health is often something we take for granted, because over the years we have developed more advanced viti mens, medicines, and cures for numerous sicknesses. In the early days, getting sick was much more terrifying than it is today. The cures for diseases were not much healthier than the diseases themselves. Any illness in the early 19th century could be very serious, no matter how big or small. For example, today cancer is considered a very serious ...
  • Severe Gastritis
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    Gastritis Gastritis is an inflammation of the gastric mucosa and is the most common pathologic condition of the stomach. It may be acute or chronic, based on histologic criteria. Gastritis may be caused by exogenous or endogenous factors. The exogenous factors that causes Gastritis are bacterial infections, especially staphylococcal toxins, drugs; nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agents (including aspirin), sulfonamides, steroids, alcohol, ingestion of corrosive alkalies or acids, irritating foods...
  • Cause Of Spoilage In The Citrus Fruits
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    Koch's Postulates Introduction Koch created four guidelines to determine the causal agents of disease in humans, animals, and plants. Koch proved that a disease-causing agent could be transferred from one organism to another and create the same illness. Isolation of pure cultures and the introduction of the disease-causing agent to a healthy organism will transmit the disease and infect the inoculated organism. Koch's four guidelines by which one must follow to transmit a disease from an infecte...
  • Disease Of Masturbation
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    The Disease of Masturbation: Values and the concept of Disease by EngelhardtEnglhardt's article The Disease Of Masturbation is an example of the ways in which values impact society's definition of disease. I agree that it is possible that science is being, or has been, limited by the values within society. For science to conclude that masturbation causes such aliments as blindness and epilepsy it appears evident that science is being misguided by values of the time. I believe that science also r...
  • Isolated Growth Hormone Deficiency
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    The Pituitary Gland and Dwarfism The Pituitary Gland is situated at the base of the brain and it produces hormones which control growth. Too large an amount of these hormones causes giantism, a condition where facial features, hands, etc. become abnormally large. Too little causes dwarfism, where the overall stature of a person is very small. Dwarfism is the condition of being undersized, or less than 127 cm (50 in) in height. Some dwarfs have been less than 64 cm (24 in) in height when fully gr...
  • D Lat Um
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    Tapeworm Infestation Charlotte Cox Causative agent: Tapeworms are parasitic Helminths of the Phylum Platyhelminths (Flatworms) and Class Cestodes. They include Taenia (beef tapeworm), Taenia soli um (pork tapeworm) and Diphyllobothrium lat um and Echinococcus granulosum. Anatomy: Scolex (head) with suckers, sometimes hooks. Proglottis -body segments continuously produced by the scolex which contain both testes and ovaries that mature as they move away from scolex to produce eggs. Taenia tapeworm...
  • Respiratory Diseases Respiration
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    Respiratory Diseases Respiration is the process of taking in and using oxygen. There are three different phases of respiration: external respiration, internal respiration, and cellular respiration. External respiration is the intake of oxygen from the environment and the release of carbon dioxide. In internal respiration, oxygen is carried to the cells and carbon dioxide is carried away from the cells. In cellular respiration, oxygen is used in chemical reactions within the cells. Some Diseases ...
  • Ebola Virus
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    In the 21st century there is no doubt that new infectious diseases will appear, and they will grow stronger and more ferocious. There are new viruses that are coming out of nature and discovering the human species. Due to our mistakes and way of life these deadly viruses are expected to increase in the future and possibly come at higher levels. Will our lifestyle, which we are accustomed to eventually cause an outbreak possibly destroying mankind This past decade, at least 50 new viruses have ap...
  • General Knowledge About Parasitic Diseases
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    As I don't know anyone in particular who has had a parasitic disease, or at least is willing to admit to having one, I will breifly go over some of what I know and have heard about these diseases. Additionally, as this topic of this paper is to go over some general knowledge about parasitic diseases, it shall be written in an informal manner, adn may stray off topic, for the sake of style and maintanance of an informal essay. To begin, I formerly found it very odd that there even be a distinctio...
  • Cause Of Serum Potassium Above Normal Levels
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    Essay A patient in hospital presented with a serum potassium concentration of 6.6 mmol / L. Discuss the possible causes, further investigation and any consequences of this finding. Potassium is the predominant intracellular cation. This means that serum potassium concentrations are a poor indicator of total body potassium, as only 2% exists in the extracellular fluid. It is disturbances in the balance between the extracellular and intracellular concentrations that cause raised serum potassium le...
  • High Level Of Dopamine In The Brain
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    Dopamine An integral component of the Central Nervous System is dopamine. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter which plays a major role in carrying out two activities of the CNS. Dopamine assists in controlling movement, and it is strongly linked with behaviors based on emotion. Neurons from an area of the brain, substantia nigra, which connects to the corpora strata is the area from where dopamine is released. This pathway is involved in movement control and the musculoskeletal system. The mesocortic...
  • Progeria And Cardiovascular Disease
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    I. Introduction A. Imagine for a second that you are a six-year-old. Your friends invite you out to play but you can t because you have a painful case of arthritis that hurts with every step you take. Or your chronic heart disease enables you from being able to breathe easily. These conditions are just a few that a child with Progeria may suffer from. Progeria, also known as Hutchinson Gilford Syndrome, is an extremely rare aging disease that causes a child to age up to eight times faster than n...
  • Cause Of The Black Plague
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    The Bubonic Plague In this world we " ve seen many forms of death. From natural disasters of unfathomable and devastating proportions to war which shed the untainted blood of soldiers and civilians alike, our mass killings have all been delivered by visibly enormous forces, which have consumed and gratified their lust for life before our very eyes. This was true until the introduction of a killer so small and intangible it left almost an entire nations skeptic and dying, searching for the answer...
  • Alzheimer's Causes To The Brain
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    Many elderly people suffer from a disease called Alzheimer's. The disease effects the brain in many ways. It slowly destroys brain cells and consequently people forget things and think and behave in different ways (Alzheimer's). There is usually no pattern for the way that that Alzheimer's attacks brain cells. "That's why a construction worker may still know how to drive a dump truck, but may not remember his wife's name" (Medina 22). The effect that Alzheimer's has on the brain causes people to...
  • Neurotoxicity Within The Neuron B Amyloid
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    Alzheimer's Disease Alzheimer's DiseaseAlzheimer's Disease Essay, Research Paper Alzheimer's Disease is a progressive, degenerative disease that affects the brain. Individuals with AD experience a progressive and specific loss of cognitive function resulting from the differentiation of the limbic system, association neo cortex, and basal forebrain. It is also accompanied by the deposition of amyloid in plaques and cerebro vasculature, and the formation of neurofibrillary tangles in neurons. Aloi...
  • Heart Disease In Northern Europe
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    Antioxidants Reduce The Risk Posed By Cholesterol Antioxidants Reduce The Risk Posed By Cholesterol Antioxidants Reduce the Risk Posed By Cholesterol Simply reducing blood levels of cholesterol is not enough to reduce the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD). People could further reduce their risk of heart disease by eating a diet high in "good' fats, vitamin E, beta carotene, and flavonoids. That's the conclusion of researchers who analyzed 25 years of dietary and health data from 12,773 men in...

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