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The Patient Essays and Term Papers
Marijuana As Medicine?Twenty years ago the thought of marijuana being used as a form of medicine would have scared and appalled people. Today, roughly two-thirds of Americans agree with the idea of marijuana being used as a therapeutic form of medicine. Marijuana has been used medically for ages. Presently it is ...
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Sleep ApneaSleep, why do people sleep at all? Why can't we just stay awake? Some
biologist suggest that sleep provides the opportunity to conduct self-repair and
purge the body of it's waste that has built up during the day's activity.
Nevertheless, the body is capable of repairing itself and disposing of ...
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XenotransplantationApproximately 4500 Americans under the age of 65 could benefit each year from heart transplatantion, yet only 2000 human hearts are available annually. This problem and many more could be solved in the near future due to a procedure called . is the ability to adapt animal organs for ...
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False Memory SyndromeMemory, defined by the dictionary: is the mental reaction of
containing and recalling past experiences. A repressed memory is: one that
is retained in the sub conscious mind, where one is not aware of it but
where it can still affect both conscious thoughts and behavior.
“When memory is ...
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Comparative Harms Of Legal AndThere is much harm that comes about due to the use of drugs, legal or illegal. For starters there are many health risks that one takes if he or she abuses the power of drugs. Someone that is addicted to drugs, either legal or illegal, puts an awful strain on their bodies. They also put an awful ...
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Methods Of TherapyTherapy, from a psychologist's viewpoint, has many different meanings. It can be physical or psychological, or even both. In this paper, several different aspects of therapy will be discussed. First the word therapy will be defined more clearly, and then psychotherapy and how it differs from ...
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The Effect Of Media ImagesIt was fashionable to be fat throughout most of history. Obesity was attractive because it was considered to be a sign of wealth. Those who could obtain enough food to keep themselves and their family well fed were people with money. In the past century, however, food has been abundant in most of ...
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Ebola Virus 4Ebola virus, a member of the Filoviridae, burst from obscurity with spectacular outbreaks of severe, haemorrhagic fever. It was first associated with an outbreak of 318 cases and a case-fatality rate of 90% in Zaire and caused 150 deaths among 250 cases in Sudan. Smaller outbreaks continue to ...
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Legalizing Marijuana LegislationThrough the whole reform on the issue of has looked at all the bad things marijuana can do. What they do not look at is the benefits to society if they legalize it, because of its medical potential, and its qualities as a natural resource. If government looked at the chemical properties and ...
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AIDS And YOU(May 1987)
(this essay is in the public domain)
Introduction:
AIDS is a life and death issue. To have the AIDS disease is at
present a sentence of slow but inevitable death. I've already lost one
friend to AIDS. I may soon lose others. My own sexual behavior and that of
many of my friends has ...
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Bipolar Affective DisorderThe phenomenon of has been a mystery since
the 16th and 17th century. The Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh was thought to of
suffered from bipolar disorder. It appears that there are an abundance of
people with the disorder yet, no true causes or cures for the disorder. Clearly
the Bipolar ...
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AcupunctureAlternative medicine, long dismissed by mainstream doctors, is getting a second look as many people in the United States have turned to to treat a variety of problems. Proponents of have accumulated many statistics and surveys in favor of this ancient method. Even though, many medical ...
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Medical RevolutionsThe Civil War started as a picnic and ended in compassion, but in between were four hideous years of twisted flesh, burning fevers, rampant pus, and oozing raw stumps. Never before had America faced even a hint of such agony and the way it responded to the occasion is fascinating history. In a ...
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Anorexia And Bulimia Nervosa"When she was fourteen, a modeling agency said that her face was too fat.
It was a death sentence." (Toronto Sun, 1994)
Sheena Carpenter died in November 1993. She was found on the kitchen
floor of her apartment by her mother. She was twenty-two years old. . . and
weighed only fifty pounds. Sheena ...
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Dissociative Identity DisorderDissociation is defined as the disconnection from self-awareness,
time, and/or external circumstances. It is a very complex process.
Dissociation can exists from normal everyday experiences to disorders that
interfere with everyday life. Normal dissociation consists of: highway
hypnosis (a ...
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Ivf - In Vitro Fertilisation10, 000 Australian couples are treated with IVF each year. The expensive and rather risky program (costing around $4000 excluding overheads) allows infertile couples to achieve pregnancy when conventional therapy has failed or is unacceptable. The procedure involves placing eggs that have been ...
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The Accomplishments Of Alexander The GreatAlexander the Great, a patient and often devious man; had never
struck without careful planning. The youthful, headstrong Alexander liked
to settle problems by immediate action. Making decisions with great speed,
he took extraordinary risks; his success was achieved by the amount of
sheer force ...
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Adrenal GlandsBircan Dogan 9D
Task 1
My assignment is about the adrenal gland. The adrenal gland is a compound organ situated on the top of each kidney. It consists of an outer cortex and an inner medulla.
25mm wide, 50mm long, 5mm thick
Diagram of the adrenal glands
The adrenal gland releases ...
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Flesh-eating BacteriaSome call it “horror” and some call it “the super germ”, but now, our always known “regular” bacteria, those one-celled creatures once considered under control with antibiotics, have invaded our hospitals and headlines with a vengeance. The vengeance used ...
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Lung CancerLung cancer, what is it? How is it diagnosed? When someone brings up a subject like lung cancer, many people don’t have a lot of information. There may be a lot of questions running through their heads. This paper is designed to get all of the questions answered and show people a path to ...
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