... afflicting primarily heterosexuals of both sexes. It probably was spread especially fast by primarily female prostitutes there. AIDS has already become a crisis of STAGGERING proportions in parts of Africa. In Zaire, it is estimated that over twenty percent of the adults currently carry the virus. That figure is increasing. And what occurred there will, if no cure is found, most likely occur here among heterosexual folks. AIDS was first seen as a disease of gay males in this country. This was a result of the fact that gay males in this culture in the days before AIDS had an average of 200 to 400 new sexual contacts per y ...
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... only by adults. , like any illness, can strike at any age. Ten percent of the adult drinkers in the U.S. are considered alcoholics or at least experience drinking problems to some degree. Surveys have shown that more than one out of three Americans have a personal friend or relative who has had a drinking problem for ten years or longer. Almost two out of three Americans report that they know someone who drinks too much. It is estimated that there are 18 million alcoholic or problem drinkers in the U.S. For every alcoholic there are at least four other people who are affected by the alcoholic. This means that in the U.S. there are at least seventy-tw ...
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... that it was not effective early in the pregnancy before the progesterone levels had reached a critical threshold. The drug’s first large testing has only been under way in France and England. The massive field trail has involved dating more than 100,000 women. The creator of RU-486 is Dr. Etienne-Emile Baulieu. He made this for the French pharmaceutical company named Rossel-Uclaf. RU-486 is the first of a generation of birth control drugs called “antiprogestins” considered to be a breakthrough in birth control drugs. RU-486 works by binding to progestorone receptors in the women’s uterus and blocking the action of progestorone. Without progestorone the l ...
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... danger to the patient lies in the growth of these abnormal white cells, which interfere with the growth of the red blood cells, normal white blood cells, and the blood platelets. The uncontrolled growth of the abnormal white cells produces a tendency to unstop bleeding, the risk of getting serious infection in the wounds, and a very small possibility of obstruction of the blood vessels. Treatment of these Leukemias include chemotherapy with alkylafing agents, or antimetabodies that suppress the growth of abnormal white cells. Another treatment of some kind would be the x-ray or the administration or radioactive substances, or radiophosphorus, may be used. After t ...
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... control over drinking, preoccupation with the drug alcohol, use of alcohol despite adverse consequences, and distortions in thinking, most notably denial. (1) Vanessa Gibson, senior lecturer, University of Northumbria at Newcastle informs alcohol’s main ingredients are ethyl and water, and is made by fermenting fruits and other grains (1). The chance taken by alcoholics when he or she drinks while on the job can be a deadly choice. Alcoholics will take the chance of putting themselves, along with other co-workers in danger when intoxicated by alcohol. An alcoholics work performance is compromised because of the disease. Being intoxicated while on the job ri ...
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... and amylnitrite. Amphetamine, methamphetamine and amylnitrite were abused for their pleasant pharmacological response. Amphetamine and methamphetamine was used as a recreational drug, which made the user restless, euphoric and alert. Amylnitrite produced strong rushes of euphoria. The average man could not seem to control his/hers use of the drugs, and as a consequence, all of theese products where put under federal control. They cannot be obtained legally without a prescription from a doctor. People with an insight in chemistry and a lack of morale, startet to produce these compunds for their own financial gains. The really clever chemists avoided doing ...
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... Neurofibrillary Tangles are also found in the brains of Alzheimer's victims. They are found within the cell bodies of nerve cells in the cerebral cortex, and take on the structure of a paired helix. Other diseases that have "paired helixes" include Parkinson's disease, Down's Syndrome, and Dementia Pugilistica. Scientists are not sure how the paired helixes are related in these very different diseases. Neuritic Plaques are patches of clumped material lying outside the bodies of nerve cells in the brain. They are mainly found in the cerebral cortex, but have also been seen in other areas of the brain. At the core of each of these plaques is a substance calle ...
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... infections are treated with antibiotics, Mostly with aerosols that relieve constriction of the airways. Physical therapy Is used to help patients cough up the obstructing mucus. Intestinal obstruction, Which occurs mostly in infancy, may require surgery. In 1989, researchers fond the abnormal gene that causes cystic fibrosis. This gene is located on chromosome 7 . A person who has two cystic fibrosis Genes has the disease . A person that carries one of the genes does not have the Genetic disease, but is a carrier. The symptoms of cystic fibrosis sometimes occur immediately after birth. Mucus secretions may appear in the baby’s intestines, which can cause Obstruc ...
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... that they are asthmatic. Interestingly enough, asthma symptoms are most severe at night, while we’re lying down our airways narrow as a result of gravity changes. Also our lungs do not clear secretions as well at night, which leads to mucous retention, and that can increase the obstruction to air flow. Furthermore, at night our bodies produce smaller amounts of certain chemical that help to decrease airway spasms and keep airway tubes open. All of these factors add up to a greater chance of symptoms worsening at night. An asthma attack begins when the smooth muscles in the walls of the bronchial tubes start to tighten and narrow when they are exposed to a trigger ...
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... pattern mapping, pattern completion, and pattern classification (He95). Neural networks may be applied to translate images into keywords or even translate financial data into financial predictions (Wo96). Neural networks utilize a parallel processing structure that has large numbers of processors and many interconnections between them. These processors are much simpler than typical central processing units (He90). In a neural network, each processor is linked to many of its neighbors so that there are many more interconnections than processors. The power of the neural network lies in the tremendous number of interconnections (Za93). ANN's are generating muc ...
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