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Health & Medicine Essays and Term Papers
The Heart And Its FunctionsThe heart is defined as "the cardiac muscle that maintains the circulation of the blood".It is divided into four cavities; two atria and two ventricles. The left atrium receives oxygenated blood from the lungs. From there the blood passes to the left ventricle, which forces it via the aorta, ...
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Down Syndrome: An Informative EssayDown Syndrome is the name for babies born with a disorder related to
their chromosomes. It is caused when meiosis occurs and an error occurs in the
cells development. The reason for this defect is often because the parent is
over 40 or for some other reason their meiosis is not "Up to par."
The ...
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The Ebola Virus: One Deadly DiseaseIn the year 1976, Ebola have lurked from its unknown origin, and caused the death of 340 people. This virus had made the nation of Zaire in fear as it took away people's lives. The people of Zaire would wait outside clinics, churches and in their homes for a treatment of the horrible disease, but ...
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Psychoanalysisis a system of psychology originated by the Viennese
physician Sigmund FREUD in the 1890's and then further developed by himself,
his students, and other followers. It consists of three kinds of related
activities: (1) a method for research into the human mind, especially inner
experiences such ...
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Alternative MedicineAs 's popularity rises, people need to be
informed about it's rise and the different types of .
Did any of you ever think about eating a peanut-butter sandwich and
drinking a glass of warm milk for insomnia. Or putting sugar or honey on
minor cuts or scrapes. These are just some of the forms of ...
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Munchausen Syndrome By ProxyJamie was three years old and had been hospitalized thirty times for illnesses such as pneumonia, asthma, sudden fevers, and numerous mysterious infections. After countless tests and investigations into Jamie�s illnesses, doctors could find no apparent causes and were baffled. They began to ...
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Nature / Nurture Or Both !The controversy over what determines who we are, whether it is Nature
(heredity, our biological make up) or Nurture (our environment) is taking a new
shape. Through the past decades, psychologists have developed different theories
to explain the characteristics of human-beings; how we feel, think ...
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AntibioticsAn antibiotic, is defined to be a drug produced by certain microbes.
Most doctors use to help fight the germs in a patient.
are obtained from plants, fungi, air, water, soil, just about anything on earth.
kill and attack the germ or virus in the body, but do not hurt the
human cells, ...
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The Nervous System: Brain And Spinal CordThis is my introduction to the brain and spinal cord. I will tell
you where they are located and what they do in my own words. Listen and
read.
The spinal cord is located on your lower back. It is made out of a
big bundle of neuron and the purpose is to allow you to move. It helps you
work, sleep ...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndromeis characterized by a cluster of congenital birth defects that include prenatal and postnatal growth deficiency. There is also facial abnormalities including small head circumference; flatten mid-face sunken nasal bridge; flatten and elongated philtrum. There is some central nervous system ...
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Small Pox, which was once the most feared disease known by mankind started
out in the days of Christopher Columbus. The disease set out to change the
lives of the people in the worse way. It became known as an epidemic disease
that ended up killing hundreds of people. started out in Hispaniola
and ...
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When Is Now? Euthanasia And MoralityWhen is Now? Euthanasia and Morality
"The third night that I roomed with Jack in our tiny double room, in
the solid-tumor ward of the cancer clinic of the National Institute of
Health in Maryland, a terrible thought occurred to me. Jack had a melanoma
in his belly, a malignant solid tumor ...
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Psychology: Human DevelopmentThe field of psychology may have grown to be respected as a science.
Objectivity and the scientific method are both part of the psychologist's mode
of operation. However, even the greatest of psychologists can only theorize
about what makes human beings act the way they do. Absolutes are not part ...
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Teen Drug Use In The United StatesDrug abuse among teens has become a major issue in recent years. Drug use in the United States alone is much higher then any other industrialized place in the world. There are so many drugs available to anyone who wants them. More and more are being developed all the time. Certain drugs have ...
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Smoking TobaccoDrugs are generally recognized as of the greatest problems in the United
States. According to the statistics, tobacco has the highest death rate.
Smoking is a very popular habit, even though we all know that smoking is
very dangerous. Millions of people around the globe want to quit smoking ...
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AnorexiaEach year millions of people in the United States are affected by serious
and sometimes life-threatening eating disorders. The vast majority are
adolescents and young adult women. Approximately one percent of adolescents
girls develop nervosa, a dangerous condition in which they can
literally ...
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Assisted Suicide"Should Doctors assist their patient's death? The doctors' obligation
is to provide every possible support during the process of dying. Do doctors
have the right to hasten the process, when requested to do so? There has been a
great deal of discussion over this topic for the past few years." ...
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Respiratory DiseasesRespiration is the process of taking in and using oxygen. There are
three different phases of respiration: external respiration, internal
respiration, and cellular respiration. External respiration is the intake of
oxygen from the environment and the release of carbon dioxide. In ...
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Female Genital Mutilation: Long Term Psychological EffectsFemale Genital Mutilation, or Female Circumcision as sometimes called, is the
partial or complete removal of the female clitoris immediately after birth, few
years after birth (early childhood), or several years after birth (adolescence).
Originally, female genital mutilation was practiced to ...
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Tobacco In AmericaEveryday 3,000 children start smoking, most them between the ages of 10 and
18. These kids account for 90 percent of all new smokers. In fact, 90 percent of
all adult smokers said that they first lit up as teenagers (Roberts). These
statistics clearly show that young people are the prime target in ...
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Drugs And Steroids In SportsDrugs have been used in sports almost as long as sports themselves have been around. The ancient Incas discovered that the ashes from burned leaves of the Coca tree gave the people great stores of energy, and made sleep unnecessary for hours or even days, it was later discovered to be the ...
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How Moods Are Affected By The SunThesis: The amount of sun people receive affects their mood.
A young woman lies asleep on a cold, overcast winter morning. At 4 A.M., a
faint incandescence radiates from a light bulb placed near her bed. The light
gradually gains intensity and covers until 6 A.M., when the woman awakes. ...
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Viruses: Complex Molecules Or Simple Life Forms??
Viruses have been defined as "entities whose genomes are elements of
nucleic acid that replicate inside living cells using the cellular synthetic
machinery, and cause the synthesis of specialised elements that can transfer the
genome to other cells." They are stationaryand are unable to grow. ...
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Abortion: Birth Control Or Legal Murder??
Approximately 1.6 million murders are committed legally each year. With the
exception of laws in few states, the mutilated bodies of the victims are thrown
into dumpsters like pieces of rotten meat. While these victims lay waiting in
the infested dumpsters to be hauled off to a landfill, the ...
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