... , causing disruptions in memory, judgement, reasoning, and emotional stability (George-Hyslop 2000). Although Alzheimer's disease is not a normal part of aging process, the risk of developing the disease increases as people grow older (Seppa 2003). Alzheimer's arises because the normal processing of certain proteins goes terribly wrong, littering brain cells and the space between them with pieces of toxic protein (George ... density of neurofibrillary tangles in Alzheimer's disease is directly related to the severity of the dementia (Ferber 2001). Errors in the tau gene may interfere wit...

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... relapses. They pick up right where they left off, no matter how much time has gone by. There are no permanent cures. There is only management of the symptoms to ... bathroom *mood changes after mealtime *brief, unexplained absences from unit *frequent reports of poor pain control by patients *medication errors *obsession with narcotic cabinet or Pyxis, volunteering to medicate co- worker's patients *poor clinical judgment *improbable excuses for ... Nurses frequently sign out wasted narcotics for another nurse without actually witnessing the waste of the medication. Drugs can also be si...

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... the gene is making and find out what it does in the body. After they know what the protein does, a ways in the future, they can possibly even correct the error by replacing it with a healthy functioning gene and get that cell to multiply in the area the important protein is needed ... dystrophy, cystic fibrosis, and retinoblastoma have been identified, right now the technology allows us to look at the genes and see how environmental factors, foods, drugs or pollutants are affecting people and their diseases. Its hard to imagine that within 15 years all the problems we have heard about wil...

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... of things. If anything happens scientists begin to find out how it came about. In the absence of science, people gave fanciful reasons for such happenings. If a person is suffering from fever, students of medical science find out the cause of his fever by studying the physiology of human bodies. ... inquiring, and questioning is the greatest gift of science. It is this dispassionate outlook, which tell us the cause of all things. This is the emancipation of the human mind from the errors ignorance. We see clearly when we think scientifically. We do this when we control our passions, prej...

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... the nerve cell in the parts of the cortex of the brain, thus impairing person's abilities to govern emotions, recognize errors and patterns, coordinate movement, and remember. How do people find they have this disease and how will the disease be treated by people? Alzheimer identified the first case of this disease. A fifty-year-old woman, who was his patient, he called her ... , severe dementia drug. There are still a lot of things that science can't do for Alzheimer's disease. For the modern technology, it still can't treat Alzheimer's thoroughly. Use medicine to treat the Alzheimer's ...

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