... smaller than normal features, such as smaller ears or a smaller nose, short stubby fingers, a single palmar crease on their hands, and having exceptional social intelligence. Because Down Syndrome is cause by a cell abnormality during meiosis, it can not really be proven that Down Syndrome is hereditary. A perfectly healthy mother could have a Down Syndrome baby even though there was never any sign of the disorder in her pedigree. There are however, three different kinds of Down Syndrome. 95% of Down Syndrome babies have Trisomy 21. This is the presence of extra genetic material on the 21st pair of chromosomes. Around 4% have what is called Translocation. Thi ...
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... by the FDA, kill up to 27,000 and aspirin up to 1,000 Americans per year, cannabis kills 0 per year [3]. When we know the facts we can understand why in 1988, after extensive review of the scientific literature, the DEA's own administrative judge Frances Young concluded that ``Marijuana is one of the safest therapeutically active substances know to man.'' [4] Opponents of legal cannabis access would have us believe that there is not enough research available to determine its safety. Nothing could be further from the truth. Cannabis is one of the most thoroughly researched drugs in history, and the evidence gathered over the centuries clearly proves that it is sa ...
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... whether it be scars or an amputated part of your body. Active teenagers should also take into consideration how smoking can effect their performance. It decreases your lung capacity, causing you to breathe more heavily. Teenagers who smoke have been proven three times more likely to use alcohol, eight times more likely to use marijuana, and 22 times more likely to use cocaine. Among the many drugs used by people, marijuana is the most commonly used. People who use this drug become less motivated and less social. Also, their emotions become less apparent. It can also cause problems with having children. If enough of this drug is taken over a long period of ...
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... a desirable development , it has also had some negative consequences in that, in some instances, the dying process is unnecessarily prolonged. There are two main arguments against that severe pain can and that if some form of killing by doctors, or others were made legal, it might easily be abused and people might be put to death for reasons unconnected with mercy. However, many people see the argument in terms of their own right to die,when faced with the indignity of deterioration, dependence and hopeless pain. Doctors although do at times deliberately give up trying to keep someone alive for whom there is no hope of recovery. There is a clean difference be ...
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... movement, memory, and thinking .Thc second major part of the brain is the cerebellum. The cerebellum commands balance coordination and posture. The last major part of the brain is the medulla it is in charge of heartbeat digestion, breathing sleeping and being awake. These are all the involuntary function of the body This part of the brain is the connector between the spinal cord and the cerebrum. The spinal cord belongs to the C.N.S. It is the most important bones of your lower back and it controls movement and mostly every thing in the body it has nerves. If you do not have a spinal cord you can't move around and go anywhere. You can not work or you cann ...
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... of Alzheimer's disease are rather easy to distinguish and classify. Patients of the disease lose much of the information that they have recently learned and cannot learn anything new. They begin to constantly misplace objects, often repeat themselves, and usually become confused in simple situations. When in relatively simplex places patients may become lost or even forget where they are. Psychologically however, patients begin to become depressed most of the time and be anxious or confused. Some become restless and can barely ever sleep. The cause of the disease, although not completely proven, is strictly genetics. It is passed down from generation to genera ...
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... patients becomes intent on losing weight. It is not uncommon for someone who develops the disorder to starve itself, until she weighs just 60 or 70 pounds. Throughout the starvation process, the patients either deny being hungry or claim to have full stomach after eating just a few bites. This disease occurs at any stage of development, but emerges first in adolescence. Recent estimates suggest that out of every 200 American girls between the ages of 12 and 18, one will develop anorexia to some degree. While most patients are female, about 6 percent are adolescent boys. Occasionally, the disorder is found in older women and in children as young as eight year ...
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... time during the week. There is not enough care and effort put into the families when a person is engulfed by AIDS. Drugs has made AIDS a moral issue because there is no family time spent when there should be. The Bible says that no one should have sex before marriage. One who believes in the Bible would follow this command. Some people think that nothing will happen to them or that a person can only get AIDS by needles. Unprotected sex outside of marriage, in the eyes of some, is considered wrong. Through unprotected sex people can contract AIDS. When a person incessantly sleeps around with strangers, AIDS becomes a part of his or her life. Unprotected s ...
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... sleep which is much less than the amount of sleep you need, then you will more than likely feel quite sleepy the next day. Thirty-three percent of adults in America have a case of insomnia at least once in their life. Most cases only last one or two nights, but insomnia can continue for weeks or possibly even months. There have only been three standard types of insomnia that have been identified by doctors. They are as follows: - Transient insomnia is considered a few sleepless nights that is usually brought on by stress, excitement, or environmental changes. A person could have trouble sleeping the evening before a big meeting or shortly after a breakup or ...
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... today are getting their cigarettes from stores, mostly gas stations or convenience store. As teens continue to be able to buy their own cigarettes, more and more communities begin to impose stronger punishments on merchants who sell to the teens. One community has experienced success in their attempts to stop the sale of tobacco products to minors. Woodridge, Illinois, started a program seven years ago which forbade and strictly punished the sale of tobacco products to minors. The entire program includes local licensing of vendors, repeated undercover inspections to see if the sale to minors has stopped, and education programs in schools. Woodridge has bec ...
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