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Term Papers on Health and Medicine
Smoking: I Can Stop Whenever I Want
Number of words: 432 - Number of pages: 2.... lead the
smoker to marijuana use or to other kind of drugs. That's why I think that young
teenagers shouldn't start smoking at young age. All of you people out there who
think that they can stop whenever they want, well I have news flash for you. 1
out of 10 smokers succeed in quitting smoking in United-States. Everyone thinks
that they have an iron will and they keep on delaying the time to stop, I'll
just stop as my new year resolution, I'll stop in a month, a week, a year.
Smoking is really hard to quit, it's an addictive habit and you really need an
iron .....
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Ethical Problem: Drinking Alcohol
Number of words: 674 - Number of pages: 3.... This would be the fifth stage of moral functioning,
Legality. If you think at this stage, you will follow the rules and laws all
the time.
The law, however, did not prevent many of my friends from drinking nor did
it do much in the way of stopping them after they had started. The law was too
easy to avoid so getting caught by the cops was rarely a matter of great concern.
Besides, even when one of my friends would get caught, they were usually
released to their parents with nothing more than a stern warning from the
officer who gave them the ri .....
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AIDS/HIV
Number of words: 707 - Number of pages: 3.... sicknesses such as swollen glands, coughing, fever, and diarrhea. It is
usually characterized by severe weight loss and fatigue. The AIDS disease
makes the less serious conditions harder for your body to control or get rid of
because of the loss of many of the white blood cells in your body. The most
common causes of death for the people with AIDS are pneumonia and Kaposi's
sarcoma. Kaposi's sarcoma which shows up as purple lesions on the skin and
tumors known as B-cell lymphomas have affected 70% of the infected people.
AIDS is transmitted in thr .....
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Treatments Of Alcoholism
Number of words: 1821 - Number of pages: 7.... diverse. Several factors - biological, social and psychological -
influence why an individual becomes an alcoholic. So treatments vary, depending
upon why the alcoholic drinks and what the physician or therapist believes is
the best method for recovery. Some treatments focus on the physical addiction
of alcoholism. Others emphasize the alcoholic's social or psychological
cravings.
Alcoholics Anonymous and Rational Recovery are two support groups that help
alcoholics recover. Other alcoholics benefit from one-on-one therapy with
counselors, who may help .....
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Ritalin
Number of words: 2817 - Number of pages: 11.... some of the greatest medical drawbacks.
ADD or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) stands tall as America's
number one psychiatric disorder (Hancock 52). Estimates suggest that more than
two million children live with the disorder; in addition, according to Dr.
Daniel Safer of Johns Hopkins University, over 1.3 million regularly consume
Ritalin for treatment of ADD (Hancock 52). Ritalin appears to be a popular
choice for doctors, but the daily effects of the drug, which family physicians
do not see, creates questions as to how well the drug actually .....
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AIDS And YOU
Number of words: 3430 - Number of pages: 13.... of both sexes. It probably was spread especially fast by
primarily female prostitutes there. AIDS has already become a crisis of
STAGGERING proportions in parts of Africa. In Zaire, it is estimated that
over twenty percent of the adults currently carry the virus. That figure
is increasing. And what occurred there will, if no cure is found, most
likely occur here among heterosexual folks.
AIDS was first seen as a disease of gay males in this country.
This was a result of the fact that gay males in this culture in the days
before AIDS had an a .....
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The Hormones And Development Of One's Sex
Number of words: 413 - Number of pages: 2.... All resulted in
female phenotypes. The male phenotype is induced and will not manifest if the
proper secretions are not made from the testis.
Although the article fails to mention how, "Jost deduced that two secretions
from the fetal testis are essential for male development - Mullerian-inhibiting
substance and androgen." The mechanism in which spermatogenic tubules form
Mullerian-inhibiting substance is still unclear to scientists. Problems with
improper levels of this hormone result in genetic and phenotypic reproductive
disorders.
The other h .....
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An American Crisis: Gulf War Syndrome
Number of words: 2057 - Number of pages: 8.... claim? What is
American government trying to hide? I believe that Gulf War Syndrome is a side
effect of low-levels of chemical and biological warfare agents the troops were
exposed to during their service in the Persian Gulf. I can justify my belief by
the number of ailing vets and Saddam's stockpile of chemical and biological
weapons.
The use of chemical warfare in the Gulf is a reality. First there was the Iraqi
Arsenal, they possessed several weapons of the death. They were building
nuclear weapons and already had chemical and biological weapons. Ir .....
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