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Surgery Essays and Term Papers
Prostate Cancer And TreatmentProstate cancer is a disease that progresses slowely, but is the second deadliest among men. However, in the past ten years reasearchers have found important new treatments and technology to help cure prostate cancer. Prostate problems are most common in men fifty and older. Most can be treated ...
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Aids 4AIDS stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Disease. It is caused by a virus.
The disease originated somewhere in Africa about 30 years ago. There it first appeared as a mysterious ailment afflicting primarily heterosexuals of both sexes. It probably was spread primarily by female prostitutes ...
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Sturge Weber SyndromeThe is a common, but unknown syndrome that
has no cure but can be treated. The syndrome is usually known at birth by
the presence of a birthmark, and is most often not fatal.
One with the usually encounters seizures at a
very young age. There are many signs such as a port-wine stain that ...
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Anomalies Are Not Always WrongTranssexualism, as well as transvestism, has had a long yet obscure history. Bryan Tully in Accounting for Transsexualism and Transhomosexuality writes, "In Antiquity, Hippocrates considered transvestism in men to be an illness sent by the Gods" (1). His comments indicate how long transvestism ...
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Muscular Dystrophyrefers to, not one, but a group of muscle diseases. These diseases have three features in common: they are hereditary; they are progressive; and each causes a characteristic and selective pattern of weakness. Duchenne (DMD) is the most prevalent and severe childhood form of this group of ...
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AIDS And YouIntroduction:
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 been profoundly altered by it. ...
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All You Need To Know About AIDSIntroduction:
AIDS is a life and death issue. To have the AIDS disease is at
present a senten,ce 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 been profoundly altered by it. ...
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Flowers For Algernon 3Flowers For Algernon was told from the point of view of Charlie, the person the
intelligence-increasing surgery was performed on. The story would have been very different if it was told through the eyes of another character in the story. Views on things like the surgery and whether or not it ...
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Alternative MedicineThe health care industry has a variety of policies and
standards regarding coverages for
modalities. From a sociological standpoint, unconventional,
alternative, or unorthodox therapies refer to medical practices
that are not in conformity with the standards of the medical
community. The New ...
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For Active EuthanasiaA person is in the hospital dying from an incurable disease. He is in excruciating pain. His body is withering away and the medication he is taking is only prolonging his death. He decides he wants to stop his treatment so he can die quickly. The doctor withholds his treatment but the man does ...
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Cancer Treatments And BreakthroughsCancer is not a single disease. It includes a large group of varied disorders that share major traits. The first sign of cancer is an enlargement of the area. The tumor then infects other cells near it, and if it's really advanced, these cells may break away from the tumor and spread the cancer ...
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Fiberoptics"A friend of mine once said that the trouble with being an architect is that everyone is an architect; everyone knows what's good and what's bad. I seem to remember the same story told by an economist. In physics we don't have that problem" (Sobel ix).
Fiber optic technology has been inevitable ...
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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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Esopghaeal CancerEsophageal cancer affects millions of lives, and it is one of the more preventable cancer. Advancements have been made in the preventions of esophageal cancer and its treatment. The general statistics of patients who have has this type of cancer. The number of patients that have been diagnosed with ...
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PancreatitisThe pancreas is a large gland located behind the stomach and next to the duodenum . The pancreas has two primary functions: To secrete powerful digestive enzymes into the small intestine to aid the digestion of carbohydrates, proteins, and fat; To release the hormones insulin and glucagon into the ...
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Healthcare: Tylenol or Retirement?It can be extremely difficult to persuade readers with an article that focuses on a major conflicting issue in today�s society such as healthcare, especially since there are so many sides to what healthcare actually is; Tina Rosenberg in her article for the New York Times titled �Revealing a ...
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The Beauty MythThe Beauty Myth: How Much Deeper Can It Reach?
If it is possible to think that "The Beauty Myth" is not a major impediment to lives of women worldwide, just take a look at these statements about the cheap and lowly lipstick:
"It's what makes you a woman."-Fashion/jewelry designer Paloma ...
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LasersDid you know that some laser beams are small enough and powerful enough to drill two hundred holes on a spot as tiny as the head of a pin?
The first major advancement in laser development came in 1954. This was the year that Charles H. Townes, an American physicist, created a device that amplified ...
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Epilepsy OralEpilepsy is a neurological condition, which is characterized by repeated convulsions or seizures. There is no known cure to this condition however it is treatable through medical therapy or through surgical treatment.
Epilepsy is the earliest recorded brain disorder. People with epilepsy have ...
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Are Cosmetic Surgeries Worth It??
Some women are never satisfied with anything, including themselves. There is a fine line between having and moving toward high expectations or taking radical, most likely unreasonable, steps by going under the knife to improve a woman�s looks to transform herself into a glamour queen for a ...
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