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… Tourette Syndrome is also referred to as Tourette's Disorder, Tourette's, TS and sometimes Tourette Spectrum Disorder. Tourette Syndrome is best defined in the archives and pages of…

… the year, more than 3,000 adolescents in the United States will smoke their first cigarette on their way to becoming regular smokers as adults (NCI 1994). A number of students on campus are habitual smokers because smoking is addictive; furthermore,…

… number one killer in America. Almost 954,000 Americans died last year from cardiovascular diseases, accounting for over 42 percent of all deaths. The lack of physical activity is now shown to be a risk factor for heart disease. Estimates are that up…

… from the industrialized world, and newly emerging diseases are now breaking out all over the world due to the misuse of medicines, such as antibiotics and antivirals, the destruction of our environment, and shortsighted political action and/or…

… and remove foreign agents and abnormal or worn out cells. The processes by which these ends are achieved are extremely potent and whenever there is an immune reaction against a foreign body regardless of whether it is removed, there is always some…

… found in the world today. It has many serious effects, and can be life threatening, or debilitating in some cases. If the proper precautions are taken, then affected people can usually live fairly normal lives.         Achondroplasia affects…

… as Mad cow disease is a relatively new disease. Most sources state that BSE first showed up in Great Britain in 1986 [Dealler p.5] but some say it popped up in 1985 [Greger p.1]. However the official notification was not until 21 June, 1988 [Dealler…

… of calcium by having less of it in her lunch and dinner meals and more in her breakfast and evening meals, then this would reduce the inhibitory effects calcium has on heme iron and nonheme iron absorption. Background Information - This experiment…

… which the blood and tissues contain mononuclear leukocytes (white blood cells with only one nucleus), either monocytes or lymphocytes. An infectious disease is a disease that can give you an infection, can be transmitted by infection without actual…

… Society?         Today more Americans are infected with STD's than at any other time in history. The most serious of these diseases is AIDS. Since the first cases were identified in the United States in 1981, AIDS has touched the lives of millio…