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Health & Medicine Essays and Term Papers
The Partial Birth Abortion DebateWhen the debate over partial birth abortion, or D & X abortion, broke in 1995, the media had to report it. After all, it was being hotly debated in Congress where a ban on this horrific procedure was being considered. The abortion proponents knew that this procedure would repel all but the ...
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The Future Of Human EvolutionEvolution, the science of how populations of living organisms change over
time in response to their environment, is the central unifying theme in biology
today. Evolution was first explored in its semi-modern form in Charles Darwin 's
1859 book, Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection. In ...
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Tuberculosis(TB) is an infectious disease caused by a germ (bacterium) called
Mycobacterium . This germ primarily affects the lungs and may infect
anyone at any age.
In the United States, the number of TB cases steadily decreased until 1986 when
an increase was noted; TB has continued to rise since. Today, ...
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The Psychological Effects Of Using SteroidsAnabolic Steroids. What are they? Where do they come from? Why are they used? From amateurs to pros, from body builders to football players and every sport in between, Steroids, or "roids" as they are referred to, have been in the circle of athletes since the 1950’s. Is it vanity that drives ...
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Femoral HerniaA hernia is any type of abnormal protrusion of part of an organ or
tissue through the structures that normally contain it. A weak spot or opening
in a body wall allows part of the organ or tissue to bulge through. Hernias may
develop in almost any area of the body, but they most frequently occur ...
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Observation Of The Early ChildhoodAn observation was held in the children'"s wing of Tarrant County Junior
College. A variety of children between the ages of two to six were observed in
activities ranging from physical and motor to social and cognitive development.
Specifically I mean that whether it was leadership skills or ...
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AIDS: A U.S.- Made Monster?PREFACE
In an extensive article in the Summer-Autumn 1990 issue of "Top Secret", Prof J.
Segal and Dr. L. Segal outline their theory that AIDS is a man-made disease,
originating at Pentagon bacteriological warfare labs at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
"Top Secret" is the international edition of the ...
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Prolonged Preservation Of The Heart Prior To TransplantationPicture this. A man is involved in a severe car crash in Florida
which has left him brain-dead with no hope for any kind of recovery. The
majority of his vital organs are still functional and the man has
designated that his organs be donated to a needy person upon his untimely
death. Meanwhile, ...
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Alzheimer's Diseaseis a progressive and irreversible brain disease that
destroys mental and physical functioning in human beings, and invariably leads
to death. It is the fourth leading cause of adult death in the United States.
Alzheimer's creates emotional and financial catastrophe for many American
families ...
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Smoking Banana PeelsBack in the 1960s a lot of young poeple took drugs and these people
would try anyhing to get a "high." One Craze was called " "
and that is what this is about .
It all started around 1967 when somebody wrote a letter to a hippie
paper in Berkeley , California to the ' Berkeley Barb ' and ...
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Legalization Of Marijuana For Medicinal PurposesIn the late 1970’s, Susan Nelson watched her husband, Don, vomit constantly. Don was undergoing chemotherapy to treat his testicular cancer. The body rejects the drugs used in chemotherapy by means of vomiting. The constant vomiting caused Don further tissue damage than he already had. In 1989, ...
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AIDS - What's New ??
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Is the message getting through? We already know enough about AIDS to
prevent its spread, but ignorance, complacency, fear and bigotry continue
to stop many from taking adequate precautions.
We know enough about how the infection is transmitted to protect
ourselves from it ...
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Amyotrophic Lateral SclerosisMotor Neuron Disease Maladie de Charcot Lou Gehrig's Disease
What is the Disease?
ALS is an extremely deadly disease affecting the nerve cells that
control the victim's voluntary muscles. These nerves shrink and eventually die,
leaving the muscles without stimulation. As these muscles go ...
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The Dangers Of CigarettesAfter watching my grandfather die at an early age from lung cancer was a good enough reason for me to quit smoking. In general, smoking cigarettes is known to be a dirty habit, which causes a decrease in health while its also not cheap.
For one thing, I realized that my cigarette smoke bothered ...
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The Risks Of SmokingPeople have been smoking tobacco for quite a long time. Some people say smoking goes back to 500 AD. It was brought to Europe by explorers of the 16th century. At the end of the 19th century a machine was made to manufacture cigarettes. This then spread smoking across America. By 1945 it ...
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Down's Syndromeis a genetic condition involving an extra chromosome,
this change occurs around the time of conception. A person with
has forty-seven chromosomes instead of the usual forty-six. A relatively
common genetic disorder, Down's strikes 1 out of 600 babies. In 95 percent of
all cases, the disorder ...
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Teenage Suicide“A permanent solution to a temporary problem” is what I always
think of when I hear the word suicide. But why do people especially
teenagers choose to take their own lives because of a couple temporary
problems? Is it really the best solution? Or is it really just a way to
get out of your problems ...
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Neural NetworksA neural network also known as an artificial neural network provides a
unique computing architecture whose potential has only begun to be tapped. They
are used to address problems that are intractable or cumbersome with traditional
methods. These new computing architectures are radically ...
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Psychoanalysisis the name applied to a specific method of investigating unconscious mental processes and a form of psychotherapy. The term also refers to the systematic structure of psychoanalytic theory, which is based on the relation of conscious and unconscious psychological processes.
The technique of ...
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Premature InfancyPremature babies, otherwise known as preterm babies, or preemies, are
babies that are born earlier than the full-term of thirty-eight to forty-two
weeks of pregnancy. These babies are generally born between the twentieth and
thirty-eighth week. Almost 250,000 babies, nearly seven percent of ...
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The Ambivalence Of AbortionWhether or not abortion is morally right or wrong, the fact remains that a woman
has the right to make her own decisions. If a woman decides to have an abortion
it is her right to do as she pleases with her body. It is understandable that
many may disagree with abortion being legal, but that is ...
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AIDS ResearchAll A.I.D.S research should be funded by the government.
Today A.I.D.S has become a large concern within society. Sexually active youth
are constantly threatened with the chance of getting A.I.D.S.. A.I.D.S is
everyone's problem and a cure has to be found.
With funding from the government, ...
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The Ethics Of Somatic Cell CloningThe idea that humans might someday be cloned - created from a single somatic cell without sexual reproduction - became closer to reality on February 23, 1997. On that date, The Observer broke the news that Ian Wilmut, a Scottish scientist, and his colleagues at the Rosilin Institute were about ...
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Rheumatoid Arthritisis the second most common type of arthritis and the most severe. It affects 5 to 8 million Americans. may begin at any age, but is most common to strike people in their 30’s and 40’s. When it affects children, it is termed Juvenile . It affects women three times more often then men.
The cause ...
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