Having Rheumatic Fever I was eleven years old when my oldest sister, Willie, was admitted into the hospital for heart problems. At that age, I didn't understand what was going on with her, but I knew she was very sick. By the time I reached my fifth-teen birthday, my sister was back in the ...

A Child's Asthma: Controlling or Controllable? Asthma is the most common chronic condition in children. Symptoms include repeated attacks of shortness of breath, wheezing, and coughing. An asthma attack occurs when the airways contract, swell, and clog up with mucus. Attacks can persist fo...

AIDS By Adam Hans A virus is the smallest particle that consists of a nucleic acid and it attacks your cells just like the Aids virus. They can not replicate themselves it must use a host cell. For instance, if we were to catch a cold our cells would be the host cells. They attach to the h...

A Child's Asthma: Controlling or Controllable? Asthma is the most common chronic condition in children. Symptoms include repeated attacks of shortness of breath, wheezing, and coughing. An asthma attack occurs when the airways contract, swell, and clog up with mucus. Attacks can persist fo...

Alcohol is a mood altering depressant drug. It can affect almost every part of a person's body. The affect alcohol has on a person depends on their sex, weight, how fast they metabolize alcohol, situation, mood, and the presence of food in the stomach. Alcohol decreases a person's inhi...

Most Commonly Used Herbal Medications The use of herbal medications has skyrocketed in recent years. In the United States one and three Americans have used herbal remedies in the past year. They are easily attainable at any grocery store or pharmacy and are relati...

The word marijuana holds two very different meanings in today's society. To parents it is a drug that is affecting their teenage children. Scientists have found that marijuana impairs all abilities by conducting extensive experiments and in depth research. However, many doctors see marijuana ...

Almost everyone has had some form of alcohol in their lives. A lot of people drink alcohol on a reoccurring basis. However, most people that consume alcohol have no idea the short term and long term effect that it have on their body. The purpose of this paper is to inform everyone of the affects of ...

According to the United States Department of Health and Human Services (1992), there are two reasons to investigate connections between alcohol, HIV infection, and AIDS: alcohol may have a negative effect on the immune system, and alcohol may trigger high-risk sexual behavior. Human immunodefi...

Informative Speech--Alcohol Subject Matter: This speech is about the short-term and long-term effects of alcohol on the human body. Audience Relationship: The audience will be interested in this topic because they are likely to be either consumers of alcohol or know people who consume alcohol. M...

The issue regarding whether or not Americans should get the smallpox vaccine has been quite controversial recently with the prospect of a bio-terrorist attack. Although a threat of this nature might be possible in the future, I feel the medical risks that accompany getting the vaccinati...

Cancer is a group of many related diseases. All forms of cancer involve out-of-control growth and spread of abnormal cells. Cancer cells continue to grow and divide and can spread to other parts of the body. These cells accumulate and form tumors. They may compress, invade, and destroy normal tissu...

Vaginitis Vaginitis is an inflammation of the vagina characterized by discharge, irritation, and itching caused mainly by hormonal imbalance, infections, and irritants to the vaginal region. "The cause of Vaginitis cannot be determined solely on the basis of symptoms or a physical examin...

The purpose of this paper will be too show how AIDS is a serious disease in the world today. AIDS, (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) is a complicated illness, caused by a virus that is passed from person to person. "The disease was first recognized in 1980 amo...

Asthma is a respiratory disorder marked by breathing difficulty caused by temporary narrowing of the bronchi, the airways branching from the trachea to the lungs. Attacks usually are brought on by allergic reaction to ANTIGENS such as grass and tree pollens, mold spores, fungi, animal dande...

Emotional Stress In our society of today, stress plays a big role in our daily lives. Stress is what moves us, and it can also be what harms us. Yes, stress is what motivates us to do things efficiently, but it is also what can cause serious diseases to occur such as heart disease or cancer. Str...

The lymphatic system Although blood is thought to be the main medium of transport for material around the cell, there is another fluid that serves the cells and is a vital link between the cells and the blood circulation. About 90% of the fluid that leaks out of the capillaries eventually seeps b...

HIV/AIDS The human immunodeficiency virus which is known as HIV is a sexually transmitted disease contracted by any sexual contact, sharing needles associated with drug use, tattoos, and piercings, blood to blood contact with someone infected with the virus, transfusions with contaminated blood, b...

Definition Essay Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) refers to the advanced development of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and extensive damage to the immune system. Not everyone who acquires HIV develops AIDS. HIV is an infection that invades immune systems cells called CD...

Lupus Definition of the Disease Lupus is a chronic inflammatory disease of unknown cause that can affect virtually any part of the body. The medical term for Lupus is Systemic Lupus Erythematosus or better known as SLE. With Lupus there is a malfunction in some of the cells of the imm...

The word steroid can start all types of discussions good and bad. Topics from the way this substance is abused in the sports world to the way it can help a child with asthma. Each side brings up a good point, both have their side effects and their benefits. In the medicine field the benefits out...

Alzheimer's disease is one of the most common diseases known among elderly people. Alzheimer disease is a degenerative brain disease, cause by a slow break down of the brain cells. There are many opinions of what causes Alzheimer's disease but the actual cause is still unknown. Scientists ...

By further highlighting events that occur during sleep, those that do not happen will simultaneously be highlighted on as well. Humans show a marked surge in growth hormone (hGH) production during the early part of sleep, making it the greatest natural release of this hormone over twenty-four hou...

Marijuana – Good v Bad "Marijuana prohibition applies to everyone, including the sick and dying" (NORML). Marijuana has been illegal in the United States since 1937. In 1937 the United States of America passed the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937, this made it illegal for anyone t...

AIDS is a sexually transmitted disease that is not curable. AIDS has been around since 1981, thats 31 years people have had a oncurable disease. 0ver 600,000 people have reported cases of AIDS since 1981. Evan now it was repoerted in 1981 it was actually identified in 1983. Some people that ar...