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    Cryonics Cryonics is a process that cools legally dead individuals in liquid nitrogen to a temperature where physical decay essentially stops with the purpose to revive and restore youth and health with technology that does not yet exist. This procedure is performed on patients who have illnesses that cannot be cured and are considered terminally ill and cannot be sustained by contemporary medicine, this is done with the hope that resuscitation and restoration of the patients full health might

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    conflict is WICKED. An organization of soldiers and scientist that are supposed to try to find a cure to a disease called the Flare. A disease that makes you crazy and turns you into a cannibal. WICKED used teenagers to experiment with, and now they want revenge. Thomas is a teenage boy that is one of the subjects in an experiment conducted by a group of people known as WICKED. When a disease, known as the Flare breaks out to the human population, WICKED starts experimenting trying to find a cure

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    I grew up and had a great childhood in a city in Vietnam. Nothing has strike my curiosity or make me question about it constantly for about a decade until my great-aunt passed away. She was the one that I was very close too when I was young. Until she passed away, I learn nothing about the causes except the word cancer. Since then, I have wanted to study biology, learn more about forensics sciences and analyze tissues to find about the causes of the deceased. Since high school, I was really enjoyed

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    Realizing you need chemotherapy can be a daunting and scary prospect. In fact, reports cite a range of 3 to 19 percent of all cancer patients refuse treatment for various reasons. It's important to learn the distinct survival advantage chemotherapy offers and the common myths surrounding this often misunderstood treatment. Chemotherapy doesn't necessarily decrease your quality of life. While visions of losing your hair and being sick all the time can be a shocking reality, this is very often not

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    news post and it said that all the kids who turned 18 are all starting to develop symptoms of a cold but worse. All the kids died after a few days. Scientist hypothesis that the cure genetically changed the genetic makeup of the children and cause a disease to form and cause the lifespan of the child to be 18, when they turned into adult. That moment I froze. Why haven’t I heard about this? What am I going to do? I don’t want to die! I called my parent immediately and they rushed home. I started crying

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    In “ras Mutations and a cup of coffee: cause, confounder, effect modifier, or what else?” Paolo Vineis argues the correlation of an outcome occurring after an exposure doesn’t necessarily indicate such outcome was caused by such exposure. He recognizes that medicine, in particular attempts to correlate cause-effect relations in hopes of preventing or curing, thus eliminating the causal agent. Nonetheless, Vinies argues cause-effect relations are more complicated. In his letter, he uses the correlation

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    Cancer has been one of the biggest killers in the world for the past 100 years. Previously, before science advanced to the point that it’s at today; no one really understand where cancer came from or why it would suddenly generate inside a human’s body. But, since finding out the reasons behind all of the hundreds of different cancers, there’s almost always a cause/health defect. Skin cancer is one of the most prevalent cancers of our time, with many reasons as to why. (Around) 3.5 million diagnoses

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    person will die from cancer.” Cancer is more easily known as the “C” word. A word that can strip children of a mother, can strip a wife of her husband, can strip grandchildren of a grandparent. A six letter word that can take everything. “Cancer is a disease when abnormal cells divide uncontrollably and destroy the body tissue.” “There are over 100 different types of cancer. Lung cancer has the highest death rate in the United States, with breast and prostate cancer behind it.” “The South, including Mississippi

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    There are many studies trying to slow the progression of this disease. There was one study completed in Maryland that aimed to see if the use of lithium carbonate, with or without divalproex, would increase the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in the spinal fluid of patients with Huntington’s Disease. Lithium carbonate is used to treat Bipolar Disorder, while divalproex is used to treat mood disorders and seizure disorders. Both have been linked to the increase of BDNF. During the study,

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    The Changi Camp Analysis

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    Also to these horrific diseases was the tropical ulcer. Tropical ulcer was very common at the Changi camp. A small cut or abrasion on the ankle would rapidly accelerate and become infected. Cutting of slough was done using sharpened spoons (without anaesthetic), and innovative treatments such as maggots or even river fish were used. Amputation was often needed, it was a very painful but necessary exercise used for many POWS. However, the impacts of the Changi prisoners of war, were not overcome

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