Abortion, the UNFPA and the China Syndrome The Founding Charter of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) says "couples have the right to decide the number and spacing of their children." Rarely have words rung so hollow. For more than two decades, UNFPA has been strongly supportive of China's brutally coercive "one child per family" policy. In a letter last year to Bill Richardson, UNFPA Executive Director Nafis Sadik tacitly admits that China has used and continues to use population control
In the film the China Syndrome, directed by James Bridges, we follow Kimberly Wells a news reporter played by Jane Fonda, covering fluff stories. Until, she gets the opportunity to go inside a nuclear power plant. In the midst of the tour Kimberly and her camera man Richard Adams, played by Michael Douglas, encounter a mechanical fail, in the hands of the power plant controller Jack Godell, played by Jack Lemon. After realizing, the Richard had gotten the entire incident on tape, Kimberly makes it
Carly Thompson Prader-Willi Syndrome HSES 473: Clinical Fitness Evaluation Techniques Carly Thompson 4-29-2015 Abstract Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is a rare and complex genetic disorder that typically causes low muscle tone, short stature, emotional and sexual immaturity, cognitive disabilities, behavioral issues, and chronic feeling of hunger. Due to its complexity, there are some areas of research that have not been thoroughly explored with this disorder. General PWS and background information
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Shaken Baby Syndrome Imagine yourself as a sweet, innocent, precious little baby. You are totally dependant upon adults to give you what you need and most importantly love. Your only means of communication is crying so you cry when you need to be fed, when you need your diaper changed, when you aren’t feeling so well, or when you just want some attention. You are crying and someone comes over to you. They pick you up, but instead of holding you and comforting you, talking affectionately to you,
Treatment for Raynaud’s - 2 - Introduction Raynaud syndrome is an auto-immune disorder in which blood vessels in the digits constrict. It usually strikes females between the ages of eighteen and thirty. “Between three to five percent of people are affected.” (Harvard, 2003) There is no known cause or cure. (Segala et al, 2003) Clinical features primarily deal with (but are not limited to) the digits of the fingers. Other digits that may be affected include toes, nose, and ear lobes. Exposure to cold
to be a large factor. Non genetic factors (i.e. maternal infection, prematurity or postnatal infection) may cause 40-50% of the remaining hearing loss. About one-third of children with hereditary deafness have features that are part of a genetic syndrome and there are between 300-400 different forms of genetic deafness that are known. Most children benefit from a genetic evaluation as a dominant diagnostic tool in determining the exact cause of the deafness, and the role of the audiologist is pivitol
Cri-du-chat syndrome, meaning cry of the cat, reference number 123450 was first recorded by Jerome Lejeune in 1963. This syndrome is characterized in young children by having a meow like cry caused by malformation of the larynx, which is often what is used to diagnosis. Other symptoms include; having a round face, small head, slow motor skills, wide set eyes, low birth weights, receded or small lower jaw, epicathal folds (skin folding into the inner part of they eye), low-set ears, hypotonia (floppiness
Progeria, otherwise known as Hutchinson-Gilford syndrome is an extremely rare, genetic childhood disorder with a reported incidence of about one in a million. Hutchinson reported the syndrome in 1886 when he found the first patient with Progeria. In 1904 Gilford described a second case of Progeria, thus creating the term to reflect the syndrome’s senile features. There are only about a hundred reported cases since the disorder has been discovered over a century ago. Currently, there are about thirty
Guillain-Barre Syndrome Guillain-Barre Syndrome, or acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, is a self-limiting disease characterized by areflexia and acute progressive motor weakness of at least one limb. Other symptoms include motor weakness of the extremities and face, loss or reduction of deep tendon reflexes, decreased sensation throughout the body,ophthalmoplegia, and ataxia. In severe cases respiratory failure and autonomic dysfunction may occur. Respiratory failure results from