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Health & Medicine Essays and Term Papers
Homeopathic RemediesWe may be seeing the seeds of revolution being sown in the American health industry. People are turning from traditional medicine in increasingly large numbers. Visits to Alternative practitioners have grown 47% from 1991 to 1997; 427 million visits in 1991 to 629 million visits in 1997. People ...
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Soda Pop And Its ProblemDid you know the adult person drinks about 2-3 cans of pop a day.
Teenagers drink about 3-4 cans a day. But drinking too much can be a real
problem because the dangers seem hidden. Pop may seem like a good
combination with pizza or other salty or fatty foods because the salt in
the food makes ...
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Schitzophrenia, Childhood, Mental, Anxiety And Other DisordersMental Disorders
The term mental disorder means psycological and behavioral syndromes
that deviate signicantly from those typical of human beings enjoying good mental
health. All that mumbo jumbo means that a person with a mental disorder was a
few cards short of a full deck. This is probably ...
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Sports TherapyToday in sports athletes endure many mental and physical obstacles
from there competitive environment. Many of today's best athletes work
with sports psychologists to help them handle the pressures found in this
competitive atmosphere. One question that athletes ask is, why cant they
play in big ...
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Euthanasia, as defined in Microsoft Encarta 95', is "the act of painlessly ending the life of a person for reasons of mercy." This paper will examine the history of and the issues surrounding assisted suicide. There are as many reasons for supporting assisted suicide as there are reasons to not support ...
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AIDS/HIVThe HIV virus poses one of the biggest viral threats to human society today. It
is contracted through bodily fluids such as blood and semen, and sometimes even
saliva and tears. AIDS kills 100% of its victims and puts them through agony
before they die. It has been a threat for about 15 years, ...
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EuthanasiaPublic opinion for and doctor assisted suicide has always
been mixed. A poll that was taken by the Gallup Organization in Canada
during July 1995 proves that people are starting to see the advantages of
. The first question that was asked was:
"When a person has an incurable disease that is ...
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Side Effects Of Carl Djerassi And Syntex's Oral ContraceptiveIn 1951 Carl Djerassi, with the Mexican pharmaceutical company Syntex, developed the first oral contraceptive by synthesizing and altering the natural hormone Progesterone into a superpotent, highly effective oral progestational hormone called "norethindrone".
Admittedly, the dynamics and ...
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Color BlindlessColor blindness is the inability to distinguish particular colors. It
is generally an inherited trait, but can result from a chemical imbalance or eye
injury.
There are three primary colors. They are red, blue, and yellow. All
other colors are the results of different combinations of primary ...
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Sexual Abuse And Repressed MemoriesSexual abuse has been particularly common in the American society for many years. Thousands of victims are subject to sexual abuse every day. In majority of the instances, the abuse occurs before the victim reaches the age of 18. The abuse normally causes the victim to have psychological ...
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Sleep And DreamsOn average, we spend about one third of our lives sleeping. In most of that time, we are dreaming. When asleep, we can gain rest and refreshment for our hard day of work. Essentially, what dreams are, are our way of relaxing, and letting our minds drift away into a distant world. In this ...
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The Search For Inner PeaceThroughout time man has searched for a balance of harmony within himself. This inner peace came be obtained from almost anywhere. For Gretel Ehrlich, her perfect spirituality was found in Wyoming. This does not mean that inner peace can be found in Wyoming but it does suggest that inner peace ...
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The Nursing Home: A Nice Place For The ElderlyA.) Security
1.)Curfews
2.)Lost faculties (No need to drive)
3.)Away from con-artists
B.) Activities
1.)Entertainment/Songs (Brownies example)
2.)Activities/Crafts (Beta Club example)
3.)People of similar age
C.)Health Care
1.)Takes stress off of the family
2.)Help with prescriptions ...
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AIDS And You: The Lethal RelationWe know enough about how the infection is transmitted to protect ourselves from
it without resorting to such extremes as mandatory testing, enforced quarantine
or total celibacy. But too few people are heeding the AIDS message. Perhaps many
simply don't like or want to believe what they hear, ...
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Teens And SuicideHave you ever been sixteen years old, felt like there was nothing left to live for, felt like everyone was against you including your parents, and felt like there was no where to turn? Believe it or not millions of American teenagers feel this way and feel that their only way out is to commit ...
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Compare And Contrast Depression And SchizophreniaMany people take the ability of a young child to recognize faces for granted. However, these people do not realize that the molding of personality begins in infancy. People learn to recognize others by their personalities. Unfortunately, personality disorders are not uncommon. Today, we will ...
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The History Of Birth ControlWell we're not all little kids here, we know about sex, and we know
that we as humans like to have sex, unfortunately ( or fortunately depends
on how you look at it) the product of the horizontal polka is a sweet
little baby, and that might not always be wanted. So therefore we have
these neat ...
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Argument Against EuthanasiaA considerable size of society is in favor of Euthanasia mostly
because they feel that as a democratic country, we as free individuals,
have the right to decide for ourselves whether or not it is our right to
determine when to terminate someone's life. The stronger and more widely
held opinion is ...
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AromatherapyDifferent human beings have been putting unnecessary drugs into there body to help them relax or to help there body heal. What some of the world is not aware of is that the mind is more powerful then these drugs. The body can and will be healed with the natural herbs of Mother Nature. These herbs ...
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Bronchitisis the inflammation of the bronchi. It may develop suddenly,
following a head cold (acute ), or it may persist or return
regularly for many years, causing progressive degeneration of the bronchi
and lungs (chronic ). Certain people are more susceptible than
others; Men are more of a target to ...
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Canceris the second cause of death in the United States Heart disease is the first. Each year more than a million Americans get medical care for and over 330,000 die from the disease. is one of man’s dreaded diseases. It attacks people of all ages. kills more children than any other disease. About ...
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Observational Abilities TestINTRODUCTION
What is true in the eyes of one, can be seen as a delusion in another.
We, as a society, are made up of a dramatically diverse amalgam of cultures and
abilities. Finding out what those differences are can help us reach a better
understanding of each other, thus a more equitable ...
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Meditation: A In-Depth LookIn-Depth Feature- Meditation by Courtney Martin
In this modern day and age, the negative effects of stress are
unavoidable. People have tried various methods to help cope with stress,
everything from exercise and diet to alternative methods like biofeedback.
However, the most effective method to ...
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Euthanasia- is it killing or letting die? In the last thirty years,
this has been a highly controversial topic, the worldly morals versus the
Christian. Although there are certain instances where it is justifiably
considered to be letting die, it is essentially killing.
Euthanasia comes from a ...
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The Fabry DiseaseClassification
is a hereditary disorder, caused by the lack of
alphagalactosidase A. It is an x-linked recessive inheritance. Therefore it is
the females that carry it. The ones who are mostly affected by this disease are
the males. Female carriers, though, may develop angiokeratomas and may ...
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