Assignment 1: Critique Lionel Shriver is a seasoned journalist who has written for many publications including Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. In her article on essential mums’ website, “Do we need to lighten up about obesity,” Shriver claims that vanity - “desire to look, and feel, more attractive” (Shriver, para 7, 2013) – is the ultimate reason for anyone to want to slim down. However, in Shriver’s entire article, she does little to substantiate her stand with concrete evidence
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women and can cause many negative symptoms including excessive fatigue, sleepiness, muscle weakness, and vision problems. The article also states that vitamin D deficiency may also play a role in the development of colon, breast, ovarian, and bladder cancers. It is asserted that blood tests are performed to confirm deficiency, however the article does not give other data or facts to support their assertions that low Vitamin D is a direct causation of depression and fatigue. Based on my analysis of
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A genetic disorder is a sickness when your genes or chromosomes have abnormalities. There are many different types of genetic disorders from Breast Cancer to Turner Syndrome. The genetic disorder I'm doing is Galactosemia, Galactosemia is an inherited metabolic disorder in which galactose builds up in the blood because of deficiency of an enzyme catalyzing its conversion to glucose. Galactosemia is caused by the lack of a liver enzyme that is needed to metabolize Galactose. It's transmitted by the
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May of 2010 T.S.A. worker Rolando Negrin assults a co-worker for jokes about his penis size after a training session with a total body scanner. The T.S.A. is using total body scanners in an attempt to reveal more hidden threats. The agency and the scanners manufacturer insist that passenger embarrassments are impossible due to features installed to prevent such from happening. Most of us would agree to a brief flash of quasi-nudity if it meant a safe flight. Body scanners and pat-downs are supposed
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Nanotechnology Nanotechnology is defined as the understanding and control of matter at a very small scale which is called nanoscale. This type of science involves all different aspects like measuring, imaging, modeling and manipulation of matter at the nanoscale length. A Nano is so small that it is one billionth of a meter. In one inch there are 25,400,000 nanometers. The thickness of a sheet of paper is around 100,000 nanometers thick. As you can see, these are very tiny. This became popular
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Children Dealing with Cancer Beverly Sylvia HCA/240 April 6, 2012 Shannon White Causes and Risk Factors When you find out your child has cancer, most parents wonder what they did wrong, what could they have done to prevent it, and often times wish they could trade places with their children. Truth of the matter is, there are probably some causes and factors that could have been changed on the parent’s part to make the possibilities of their child getting cancer less likely. Then there
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CNS (Central Nervous System) Cancer I. Anatomy The central nervous system (CNS) is made up by the brain and spinal cord. This complex system controls both things that we intentionally think about and do, like walking and talking, and essential body functions that occur without specific thought on our part, such as breathing and digesting food. The CNS is also involved with the five senses of seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, and smelling, as well as emotions, thoughts, and memory. The
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Hodgkin's lymphoma, cells in the lymphatic system grow abnormally and may spread beyond the lymphatic system. As Hodgkin's lymphoma progresses, it compromises your body's ability to fight infection. Hodgkin's lymphoma is one of two common types of cancers of the lymphatic system. The other type, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, is far more common. Advances in diagnosis and treatment of Hodgkin's lymphoma have helped to give people with this diagnosis the chance for a full recovery. The prognosis continues to
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Medical Terminology OVARIAN CANCER Ovarian Cancer is a disease that cancerous cell are found in ovary tissues. ovary is a part of organ , that is responsible for reproduction, can be found in the woman’s lower abdomen area. This organ is reproductive organ of hormones, estrogen and progesterone, and also responsible for making eggs that is sent through fallopian tubes into to uterus monthly. When a woman undergoes menopause, ovaries are not functioning well and this process produce less hormones
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patient’s reaction to a certain medical treatments. Discuss the benefits of personalized medicine. Prevention, diagnosis, and treatment in some cancers can be provided by personalized medicine. The use of personalized medicine will allow doctors to develop a more precise treatment based on each patients modern genetic technology because cancer is such a complex disease and effects each individual differently. Genetic diseases affect an estimated 12 million Americans, yet according to a survey
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