Short essay on The Bhopal Gas Tragedy JAYAPRAKASH KAKADA By all accounts the Bhopal Gas leak on the night of 2-3 December 1984 is the worst chemical disaster in history. It took a heavy toll of human lives. People started dying within hours and more than 2000 lives were lost in the first few days. According to Dureja and Saxena one of the earliest of the ’Rescue Teams’ to reach Bhopal when panic was at its peak at major hospitals of the city‚ the patients could be graded symptomatically into four
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Alcohol Use What is alcohol use disorder? It is a disorder associated with intake of more than enough amount of alcohol resulting in the destruction of internal organs plus it can also harm a person physically and mentally. What it is cause? The main causes of this disorder are: * Drinking alcoholic beverages. * Having alcoholic substances. What organ it effects? It affects several organs. For example: * Brain: Drinking a large amount of alcohol causes damage to the brain. It
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Alex Tovar March 29‚ 2013 Professor Levitt Informative Speech Assignment Brain Aneurysm Purpose: To inform my audience about Brain Aneurysm Thesis: I will speak about some facts on Brain Aneurysm. I will speak about the causes‚ symptoms‚ the treatment‚ the issues with it‚ the symptoms and the outcomes or results of it. I.Brain Aneurysm A. I had a friend who recently passed away about 6 months ago she had brain aneurysm. She didn’t know that she was getting it‚ according to her boyfriend who was
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many cases lethal‚ infectious disease caused by various strains of mycobacteria‚ usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis typically attacks the lungs‚ but can also affect other parts of the body. It is spread through the air when people who have an active TB infection cough‚ sneeze‚ or otherwise transmit respiratory fluids through the air. Most infections are asymptomatic and latent‚ but about one in ten latent infections eventually progresses to active disease which‚ if left untreated‚ kills
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running head: UNIT 10. ASSIGNMENT Environmental Microbiology With so much advertising for various antibacterial products‚ many people have gotten the impression that all bacteria are harmful and that maybe the Earth would be better off if all bacteria were eliminated. What would life be like in a bacteria-free world? Bacteria help decay materials and put vitamins and minerals‚ and gases into the atmosphere. Without them the world would be able to produce little food. Bacteria are woven into
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When was the last time you considered the odds of your life panning out in the exact way that it has? Most of the time‚ the role of chance in our lives goes completely unnoticed‚ even as it shapes every aspect of our lives and our world. People are hardwired to assign blame or credit to one particular person or event that we think “caused” something to happen. In reality‚ causation is not a straight line‚ leading from one cause to one effect to one aftereffect. It’s more like a huge spider web‚ with
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Correlation Between Vitamin D Deficiency and Parkinson’s Disease Trisakti University of Medicine I Made Setiadji 030.09.114 Jakarta‚ June 14th 2012 Abstract A majority of Parkinson’s disease patients had insufficient levels of vitamin D. Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common form of neurodegeneration in the elderly population. In PD‚ one’s levels of dopamine are lowered because the nerve cells which make the chemical have either died or lost their usual functioning. Clinically
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MECH A NIS MS OF D IS EASE Review Article Mechanisms of Disease F R A N K L I N H . E P S T E I N ‚ M. D. ‚ Editor ION CHANNELS — BASIC SCIENCE AND CLINICAL DISEASE AND MICHAEL J. ACKERMAN‚ M.D.‚ PH.D.‚ DAVID E. CLAPHAM‚ M.D.‚ PH.D. I ON channels constitute a class of proteins that is ultimately responsible for generating and orchestrating the electrical signals passing through the thinking brain‚ the beating heart‚ and the contracting muscle. Using the methods of molecular biology
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occlusive disease does not result in CLI arisein the context of embolic disease. Large thrombo-emboli thatarise from a cardiac or other proximal source and lodge at theaortic bifurcation‚ referred to as saddle emboli‚ can lead toprofound acute bilateral lower extremity ischemia (blue toe syndrome).(Wingo et al‚ 1986) In contrast‚ occurs when atheroscleroticdebris breaks free from an aortic or iliac plaque andembolizes to the distal vessels. Wire manipulation duringcoronary or peripheral angiographic
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Raynaud’s Disease Raynaud’s disease is a vasospastic condition generally characterized by spasm of the arterioles in an individual’s extremities; fingers‚ hands‚ feet and toes (Frazier: 490) (Merck: 1790). Additionally‚ the nose‚ tongue and even the earlobes can be affected (Merck: 1790) (Cooke: 293). If the condition is deemed primary‚ it is known as Raynaud’s disease‚ or primary Raynaud’s phenomenon‚ and is inherently idiopathic (Merck: 1790) (Cooke: 294). On the other hand‚ if the condition
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