Down Syndrome What is Down Syndrome? Where does it come from? Is there a cure? About one in every 800 American babies is born with Down syndrome‚ and it is estimated that about 350‚000 people in the United States‚ and just under 6 million people worldwide live with this condition today. There is a false impression that pregnancy screening has eliminated or substantially reduced the incidence of Down syndrome in the population. Despite years of screening‚ the Down syndrome population in the
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Cancer VS. Diabetes Cancer and Diabetes are common diseases although no one can really explain why. These diseases have more differences than similarities‚ but can have the same outcome if not taken care of properly. Cancer ranks the second leading cause of death‚ while diabetes rank number seven on the fatality scale worldwide. There is evidence that says people with diabetes are at a greater risk for many forms of cancer. Studies show
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Cancer Awareness There are a lot of tough diseases in the world but the most common one is cancer. It’s a disease that attacks the body cells dangerously by spreading inside the body destroying the immune system. It’s also known as a malignant tumor that stops the the cell growth and invade the whole body. It’s a serious disease that considered as the main reason of death for humans. However many people had survived it. It can be cured if it was discovered earlier. Lately research has proved that
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PTSD in the Catcher in the Rye In the "Catcher in the Rye‚" written by J.D. Salinger‚ Holden experienced a traumatic event that would stay with him for the rest of his life. When Holden was 13‚ his 11-year-old brother‚ Allie‚ passed away from leukemia. Holden would never recover from that experience. Holden develops a condition known as PTSD or post-traumatic stress disorder. PTSD is best described as "An anxiety disorder that people get after seeing or living through a dangerous event." As described
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relative risks for some of blood groups. The A type is more frequent in patients with larynx and hypo pharynx tumors‚ acute myeloblastic leukemia‚ ovarian‚ pancreas‚ breast‚ vulvar and gastric malignancies. A positive association with O type has been reported with several tumors like the squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus‚ gastric cancer‚ acute lymphoblastic leukemia and skin melanoma. Few other differences have been described for other blood groups namely
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precautions are given. Finally‚ the conclusion will tie it all together. This is my research report on how hair dye products can cause various‚ life threatening side effects‚ like cancer‚ after use. First‚ there are three categories all hair dyes fall into. The first category is temporary dyes. Temporary dyes normally last 2-3 washes and covers only the surface of your hair.
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performance‚ evidence of disbursement controls such as board approval of the budget‚ fund raising practices‚ establishment of a conflict of interest policy‚ and establishment of accounting procedures sufficient to safeguard charity finances.’ The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society also met standards such as Board Compensation‚ Conflict of Interest and Effectiveness Policy. In my opinion I believe it is particularly important for a nonprofit organization to develop and maintain an internal control system
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Lauren Literature To Kill a Mockingbird Epilogue Fifty Years Later Fifty Years have passed‚ and Maycomb‚ sadly‚ still had its usual disease. People still treated the blacks unfairly. It’s not as bad‚ but still not what Atticus hoped it would be. Maycomb is still a tired‚ old town with the same families. As for Jem‚ Dill‚ and myself‚ we were the change that Maycomb needed. I lived in Miss Maudie’s house. Sometimes I think the only reason she left me her house was because I told her I would take
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A Civil Action The movie A Civil Action is focused on describing and explaining what really goes on in a court of law. The case the movie deals with is a small firm going after a national corporation in order to get them to apologize for what they did to the city’s water. It is believed that the company would dump harmful waste such as trichloroethylene into the back of their site where the company was located into a small running river. However‚ the river was connected to the city’s water wells
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into any kind of cell in the human body. Usually‚ these embryos are unused from in vitro fertilizations and would otherwise be thrown away. Embryonic stem cells have the potential to treat people with diseases‚ such as Parkinson’s‚ diabetes‚ and leukemia as well as be used to test drugs. Despite the possibilities‚ ethical debates and lack of funding restricts researchers from doing so. The most obvious reason for embryonic stem cell research is the possibility to help people. Since they can be
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