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Today, tens of millions of people around the world are going to die young because they are infected by HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The primary AIDS virus is HIV-1, which can be spread via sexual intercourse or drug use (activities, which result in body fluid exchange like blood and semen). HIV can also…

Acquired Immune Difficiency Syndrome AIDS is a life and death issue. To have the AIDS diseas is at present a sentence of slow but inevitable death.I’ve already lost one friend to AIDS. I may soon lose others. My own sexual behavior and that of many of my friends has been profoundly altered by it. In…

Although cryptic in language and structure, Dickinson gives her work an instinctually vivid sense of emotion. Her examination of the feeling of pain focuses in on only a few of the subtler nuances of pain that are integral parts of the experience. She draws in on an “Element of Blank” that she introduces in her…

According to Fitzgerald et al study in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA(14) who estimated the prevalence of knee buckling in knee osteoarthritis patients at 63% and assuming a confidence level of 0.05 and an accuracy of 0.01, the sample size was determined 90. The patients who were included in the study signed university-approved written informed consent forms…

Gerodermia osteodysplastica is an extremely rare autosomal recessive connective tissue disorder that is within the classification of the cutis laxa syndrome. This disease in which the person has physical symptoms have deformities in skin, muscle tissue and bones. The dwarfism delays the progression of bones developing from skull to spine and one’s limbs This disorder…

Eleanor Van Slyke Dr. James Horton Hist 38 May 11, 2000 Chinese Medicine and Religion As with all things we know little about there is quite a bit of mystery surrounding acupuncture. The part people see the most is a person with needles sticking out of their flesh. Understandably being wary of sharp pointed objects…

The meniscus is one of the most commonly injured structures in the knee. Meniscal injuries can occur in any age group, but causes are somewhat different for each age group. In younger people, the meniscus is fairly tough and rubbery, and tears usually occur as a result of a fairly forceful twisting injury. In the…