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Term Papers on Health and Medicine

Assisted Suicides
Number of words: 683 - Number of pages: 3

.... live or die is made by God. Judith Curren didn't agree. With the assistance of Dr. Kevorkian, she died and the retired pathologist presided at his 38th assisted suicide, fairly confident that he will not be prosecuted or even suffer public disapproval. Many of the people who have sought out Dr. Kevorkian have been terribly ill and suffering, with no hope of long-term survival. Their stories offered examples that built public sympathy for this cause. But from the beginning, even among observers who believe that the desperately sick should be given help to die, there have been question .....

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AIDS And You: The Lethal Relation
Number of words: 1109 - Number of pages: 5

.... figures may currently be less in much of the rest of the country, this is changing rapidly. There currently is neither a cure, nor even an effective treatment, and no vaccine either. But there are things that have been PROVEN immensely effective in slowing the spread of this hideously lethal disease. AIDS stands for Acquired Immune Defficiency Disease. It is caused by a virus. The disease originated somewhere in Africa about 20 years ago. There it first appeared as a mysterious ailment afflicting primarily heterosexuals of both sexes. It probably was spread especially fast by pri .....

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Bacteria
Number of words: 736 - Number of pages: 3

.... decay leads to cavities, which means is arises the film on our teeth. People with diets high in sugar have a higher chance of getting tooth decay or cavities. The sugar us turned into lactic acid, the acid leads to a lost of calcium and if followed by the breaking down of the tooth. Scientists have found that most stomach ulcers are the result of l infection. Many of us once believed that stress was the caused of ulcers. It is possible that the stressful environment helps the ’s growth. Each species of pathogenic has a different way of being transmitted. It can be carried in water, i .....

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Stressed With Stress
Number of words: 1269 - Number of pages: 5

.... to face such stressors as meeting deadlines, fear of failure, anger, and frustration at the workplace. Everybody is effected by stress when it comes to things like wars, pollution, poverty, overcrowding, and crime. It is important to learn how to live with these situations, because it is nearly impossible to get through life without encountering them. Most people know that stress could be bad, but how bad? Physicians have proven that stress-related disorders, diseases brought on or worsened by psychological stress, are more likely to happen to people with very busy lives. The sad re .....

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Dehumanization Of Infants
Number of words: 922 - Number of pages: 4

.... said that in most cases you would consider this disrimitory but in many cases these abortion are considered justified because the baby may have a handicap. She gave allot of reasonable arguments of the unfairness that is involved in the laws in regards to abortion for instance in America if you pay taxes your tax money could be used to help fund abortion in the united states . and she also talked about how recent medical advancements have spread light on the reality that the unborn child is not just a mass of cells and tissue, this hypothesis was used to explain the anti- life message that th .....

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Narcissism: Psychological Theories And Therapeutic Interventions In The Narcissistic Disorders
Number of words: 4322 - Number of pages: 16

.... the narcissist seeks to be admired by others. However, the narcissist"s extremely fragile sense of self worth does not allow him or her to risk any criticism. Therefore, meaningful emotional interactions with others are avoided. By simultaneously seeking the admiration of others and keeping them at a distance the narcissist is usually able to maintain the illusion of grandiosity no matter how people respond. Thus, when people praise the narcissist his or her grandiosity will increase, but when criticized the grandiosity will usually remain unaffected because the narcissist will devalue .....

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The Trip: Journey To The Center Of Terence McKenna's Inner Self.
Number of words: 340 - Number of pages: 2

.... machine elves of hyperspace, McKenna has fashioned his mental Merzbau on the New Age lecture circuit, where he has earned the benediction of the psychedelic High Priest himself, who dubbed him “the Timothy Leary of the 90's”. McKenna has written several books as well as having rave bands set his ruminations to billowing techno-trance music. The main focus of this article is on McKenna's theory, which is concocted from psychedelic Darwinism, fringe linguistics, and New Age eschatology. This theory is based on the notion that “Hallucinogenic plants may have been the catalysts for e .....

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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Lou Gherig's Disease)
Number of words: 445 - Number of pages: 2

.... then become useless and begin to deteriorate. Symptoms of ALS include: Tripping and falling Loss of motor control in hands and arms Difficulty speaking and swallowing or difficulty breathing Persistent fatigue Twitching and cramping, sometimes severely As ALS progresses, all voluntary muscles become useless. The patient cannot eat, breathe or communicate with others. Total life support may be the only thing keeping them alive. ALS can lead to total paralysis. Although there is no cure, medications such as siazepam can assist with controlling spasms and muscle cramps and .....

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AIDS:Is There A Cure? Are There Preventions?
Number of words: 1091 - Number of pages: 4

.... is by blood transfusions. This is done almost the same way as by IV needle but it is always by the blood.(Madaras,187) The most rare way the AIDS virus is spread is by a mother passing it to fetus inside her.(Madaras,188) AIDS is a very rapidly-spreading disease although it is only spread four ways. Ten years ago only two cases of AIDS were known. Nine years ago only seven cases were known. In 1983 over 3,000 cases were recorded, and by 1989, there were more than 100,000 cases. (Samuel,26) Many people think you can get AIDS by what scientists call "casual contact." Casual contact .....

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How Has AIDS Affected Our Society?
Number of words: 1223 - Number of pages: 5

.... of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, and a group headed by American virologist Jay Levy at the University of California at San Francisco isolated a retrovirus from people with AIDS and from individuals having contact with people with AIDS. All three groups of scientists had isolated what is now known as HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. In 1995 HIV was estimated to infect almost 20 million people worldwide, and several million of those people had developed AIDS. The disease is obviously an important social issue. AIDS has caused many to rethink their own social behavior. People are for .....

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