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Health & Medicine Essays and Term Papers
Hip SurgeryOn the day of surgery you will first be taken to the pre-anesthesia room where the anesthesiologist will discuss the anesthesia options. Two types of anesthesia are commonly used for . The first is a general anesthesia, which puts you in a deep sleep and therefore requires assistance with your ...
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The Problem Of Teens And SmokingSo you think you want to start smoking? Before I go into teens and smoking, I thought I�d tell you a little about the history and other important facts about nicotine and tobacco.
Nicotine is the prime alkaloid of tobacco. It is a plant belonging to the genus Nicotina. More than sixty species ...
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Mental Disordersare psychological and behavioral syndromes that deviate significantly from those typical of human beings enjoying good mental health. In general, a mental disorder involves present distress or impairment in important areas of functioning. Such deviations in thought, feelings, and behavior have ...
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Diseases: Sex Linked And Sex InfluencedThere are thousands of cases of sex linked and sex influenced diseases
worldwide. These diseases can range from a social inconvenience, to a fatal
ailment. In sex linked diseases, like Muscular Dystrophy, hemophilia and color
blindness, only males are affected. When a man infected with a sex ...
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The Dangers Of Smoking MarijuanaMarijuana is a mood altering or psychoactive drug that has many
nicknames, such as pot, weed, ganja, sensi, herb, and others. It is an
ancient drug that dates back to hundreds of years to Asia. Many cultures
have used it during meditation, religious worship, and for intoxication.
Marijuana ...
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Abortion And PoliticsWhenever the Supreme Court reconsiders Roe v. Wade or pro-life forces win major elections, public officials that support the �right to choose� become concerned about the welfare of the family. If that decision is overruled, your wives and daughters will be unable to secure safe abortions should ...
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AlcoholismI woke up from coma wondering what had happened to me. "I am going to
die, what have I done to myself." "Does my mother know?" She will kill me. "I
am so SCARED!"
Most kids my age, who only had their grandma and grandpa never knew what
it was like to have a great-grandmother. Not only was ...
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Marfans SyndromeMarfan syndrome is a rare hereditary disorder of connective tissue,
which causes connective tissue to be weaker than normal. Connective tissue
is the most abundant tissue in the body. It supports and protects various
other tissues, is a vital component of all organs in the body, and ...
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Japanese Medicinehas a very interesting history. They have evolved from other traditional medical ways. They also have an extremely unique way to approach their healing patterns. Their healers take much different roles, than the normal roles they play in our Western culture.
has a very different trend to it ...
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AlbinismThe word "" refers to a group of inherited conditions. People
with have little or no pigment in their eyes, skin, or hair. They have
inherited genes that do not make the usual amounts of a pigment called melanin.
One person in 17,000 has some type of . affects people from all
races. Most ...
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The Criminalization Of Knowingly Transmitting AIDSTable of Contents
Brief history of AIDS and the criminalization of knowingly
transmitting it.......................................3
Interviews concerning the issue............................4
Reasons for the criminalization of knowingly transmitting ...
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For Information On The Medical Uses Of MarijuanaIn reaction to medical cannabis access referendums on the ballots in
Arizona and California, former presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and
George Bush signed a letter stating that they ``categorically oppose''
access to cannabis for its many proven therapeutic uses such as the
prevention of ...
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Antibioticshave played a major role in our society thanks to Sir
Alexander Fleming's careful observations in 1928. Without it, many lives
would be in danger due to infectious diseases.
Antibiotics are chemical substances produced by various species of
microorganisms and other living systems that are ...
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About Medical MarijuanaMarijuana is medicine. It has been used for thousands of years to treat a
wide variety of ailments. Marijuana (Cannabis sativa L.) was legal in the
United States for all purposes - industrial and recreational, as well as
medicinal until 1937.
Today, only eight Americans are legally allowed to ...
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Bipolar Disorderis a mood disorder where mood�s change very fast a person can go from being on top of the world to wanting to kill them self. The mood�s bounce back and forth between the depressive phase and manic phase, which cause a lot of problems. The disorder usually appears between the ages of 15-25 and it ...
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Chicken PoxThis common childhood disease has syptoms such as:
- Fever
- Weakness and fatigue
- a red, itchy rash
Caused by a herpes virus called 'Varicella' this disease is very contagious. When an infected person sneezes, coughs, or breathes, the virus enters the body through the mouth and nose transported ...
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Abortion: The Woman�s RightBirth is a miracle or so it feels to the willing parents. A tiny infant emerging from the mother's womb, a piece of you, embodying all your hopes and dreams, but what about the unwilling parents? What about the female who has found herself with an unwanted pregnancy? Her options are few ...
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The Negative Portrayal Of LSDDespite the negative portrayal in mainstream 1960s media, justifications expressed by counterculture activists for further investigation, education and experimentation under government control of LSD were rational and valid arguments. Sex, drugs, protests, war, political upheaval, cultural chaos, ...
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SchizophreniaWHAT IS ? What does the term mean? In its
most elementary sense, we might say that is a disease, invented
by Eugene Bleeder. Eugene Bleeder was one of the most influential psychiatrists
of his time. He is best known today for his introduction of the term
schizophrenia, previously known as ...
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BulimiaNo matter what she does she can no longer control this disorder
that has taken over her life. Slowly she walks down the hallway leading to
the torture that lies ahead. Stumbling into the bathroom, she calmly talks
herself into another episode as a desperate attempt to stay thin. Finally,
she ...
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder(GAD) is much more than the normal anxiety people experience from day to day. GAD is more than the normal nervous response in stressful situations. Such as, the sweaty palms, a racing heart and the butterflies in the stomach one feels before a big test, a board meeting, or addressing a group ...
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Heart Attacksare the leading cause of death in the United States.
Everyday approximately 1,500 people die from . Thousands more
suffer crippling effects of some form, and remain disabled for the rest of their
lives. A simple definition of a heart attack is a sudden failure of the heart
resulting from an ...
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AIDS(Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) is a deadly disease for which
there is no cure. This disease was first recognized in the mid 1980's. The
cause of is the HIV virus, and is most commonly spread by venereal routes
or exposure to contaminated blood or blood products. This disease weakens ...
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What Effect Does Aging Have On Memory??
�It seems, then, that we owe to memory almost all that we either have or are; that our ideas and conceptions are its work, and that our everyday perception, thought, and movement is derived from this source. Memory collects the countless phenomena of our existence into a single whole; and, as ...
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