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Lyme Borreliosis, also know as Lyme Disease, is caused by Borrelia Burgdorferi, a bacterium. The bacteria are transmitted through deer ticks. The disease is named for the town of Old Lyme, Connecticut, where it was first discovered and diagnosed. Lyme Disease effects many people, as well as domesticated animals such as cats and dogs, as well as hor...
is a serious mood disorder that negatively affects how one thinks feels and behaves. In contrast to normal sadness, clinical depression, also called major depressive disorder, is persistent and significantly interferes with life functioning. It cannot just be taken away or shaken off, many misconceptions that often lead people to avoid treatment....
An antibiotic, is defined to be a drug produced by certain microbes. Most doctors use to help fight the germs in a patient. are obtained from plants, fungi, air, water, soil, just about anything on earth. kill and attack the germ or virus in the body, but do not hurt the human cells, ordinarily. The antibiotics are used to treat many various ty...
The task of trying to quantify a person's intelligence has been a goal of psychologists since before the beginning of this century. The Binet-Simon scales were first proposed in 1905 in Paris, France and various sorts of tests have been evolving ever since. One of the important questions that always comes up regarding these tools is what are the...
The main point in Ericsson et. Al.(1993) is that in order to achieve expert performance, one must engage in deliberate practice with the explicit goal of constant improvement. This theory further dismisses to a large extent the role of genetics, in which Ericsson reasons that there has been no great correlations between the attainment of superior p...
Athletes today will do almost anything to get an edge. In the past athletes had to turn to such things as anabolic steroids or blood doping (the process of taking out blood and adding oxygen to it and putting it back into your body in order to increase a persons endurance). However, these procedures have many drawbacks. Mainly, they are illegal....
We've heard about them on television, in newspapers, and other various publications since the early 1970's, but still many people don't know enough about . Many people have heard about the controversial chemical, Agent Orange, which had links to . Even fewer people have become educated about paper mills and their links to . The fact of the matte...
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, better known as AIDS, is caused by the incurable HIV virus. AIDS is a deadly disease that deteriorates the immune system. There are two groups of HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), HIV-1 that occurs throughout the world and HIV-2 that mainly occurs in Africa. The HIV virus enters the white blood cells and ta...
The earth has over two thousand different types of minerals as stated in the World Book of Instant Facts, and one of them is Asbestos. Asbestos is a long time resourceful mineral that is commonly used for construction work. Currently, it is being challenged for the harmful effects it has on the human body. Lawfirms are contributing the use of asb...
"MOM!! I think I have a new freckle!!"screamed Liz." I think I have skin cancer!" Liz is suffering from a mental disorder called . With this type of disease people become obssessed about sickness and their health. These people convince themselves that they have an illness, even when doctors prove otherwise. Sometimes they might turn symptoms of a c...
A. How can an infection in Cari's nasal passages and pharynx spread into her sinuses? The infection in Cari's nasal passages and pharynx was able to spread into her sinuses due to the fact of how close the passages and sinuses are to each other, and the sinuses being a drainage area for the nasal passages. B. What is the cough reflex? Descr...
Pathology is the medical specialty concerned with examining body tissues and fluids to contribute to the diagnosis of disease. There are two types of pathology, anatomic and clinical. So what does forensics have to do with pathology? What is ? A forensic pathologist is a specialized branch of pathology. A forensic pathologist is a central figu...
From last 20th century, a new phenomenon has been brought into Vietnamese students' life: working in the college. There are several reasons for this phenomenon. At first, students working in the college were often the ones that were born in poor families. They had to find jobs to earn money because their tuition must be paid to continue their study...
is a serious genetic disorder that begins at birth with no known cure ; causing mental retardation,short stature,low muscle tone,incomplete sexual development,and its main charecteristic,the desire to eat everything and anything in sight. Prader-Willi syndrome was first known as Prader-Labhart-Willi Syndrome after three Swiss doctors who first d...
