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Term Papers on Health and Medicine
Assisted Suicide
Number of words: 586 - Number of pages: 3.... that no person should have to experience. Money is a big issue to everyone whether they admit or not. Should a person and their family be forced to spend thousands of dollars a day on medical expenses just so the patient can continue living a life he doesn't even want to keep? This medical treatment, in some instances, can only extend a life by mere weeks. In theory, this treatment is just adding on more weeks of pain and suffering. Not only does the patient have to suffer, but the family members have to suffer watching their loved ones live in agony. F .....
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Cigarette Smokers Are Bad For Nonsmokers
Number of words: 377 - Number of pages: 2.... only annoying it also damages the heart and
lungs and is killing about 3000 Canadians per year. If some one gets cancer
in the lungs that person is most likely to pass away because there is no
cure for the lung cancer right now. If you are living with a smoker you
have a twenty five percent chance of dying from a heart attack. It even
hurts children by giving them bronchitis, asthma and ear aches. There are
about 45 gasses, liquids and metals that cause cancer in the smog.
Smoking costs a lot of money for the people in Canada. It costs the
Canadian economy rough .....
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Legalization Of Abortion
Number of words: 959 - Number of pages: 4.... as removing an appendix. This problem of when life
begins stems from the inconsistencies which come from the case of Roe v. Wade.
The Supreme Court interrupted that by the ninth and fourteenth amendments that
a woman has the right to an abortion. The court that day, however, did not rule
when a life begins for a human. If society is to assume that a fetus is a human
the second it leaves the uterus, then what is the unborn baby three minutes
from birth , a monkey. When an unborn baby is aborted, society must realize that
an organ was not taken out, but a livin .....
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Pesticides And Their Harmful Affects
Number of words: 2800 - Number of pages: 11.... be sure as to the long term effects on our environment and what they are eating or giving to the future of our world, the children. In some foreign countries pesticides are used more frequently with legislative control than in the United States. In Mexico and South America, for example, many of the pesticides that the United States and Europe have banned, wind up being used on a majority of their produce crops. The largest problem with this is that Europe and the United States import from South America for produce all of the time.
What good does it do to ban .....
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Elephantiasis
Number of words: 341 - Number of pages: 2.... humans, the mature worm lives tightly coiled in the lymphatic vessels
where they reproduce. The female holds the fertilized eggs in her body.
Later the embryos, called microfilariae, are discharged alive. An
interesting feature of these worms is the periodic swarming of the
microfilariae in the bloodstream. In most species swarming takes place at
night. The embryos can be taken up by an insect only when they are in a
human's bloodstream. They develope into infective larvae in the insect,
which is the intermediate host. These hosts are various genera of
mosqui .....
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Abortion
Number of words: 1427 - Number of pages: 6.... to abort than married and the rate has doubled for 18 and 19 year olds. Recently the U.S. rate dropped 6 percent overall but the rate of among girls younger than 15 jumped 18 percent. The rate among minority teens climbed from 186 per 1,000 to 189 per 1,000.
The most popular procedure involved in s is the vacuum aspiration which is done during the first trimester (three months or less since the women has become pregnant). A tube is simply inserted through the cervix and the contents of the uterus are vacuumed out. The most commonly used type of second trimest .....
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Teens And Suicide
Number of words: 922 - Number of pages: 4.... won’t be a problem for you much longer,” “nothing matters,” “it’s no use,”
To prevent a teen from committing suicide, encourage him or her to talk to friends, to a family member, or to someone they feel they can trust. Listen to their feelings let them know that someone is here for them. Do not give advice or feel obligated to find simple solutions. Just try to imagine being in their place, dealing with the feelings and emotions they are feeling. When talking with your child, don’t’ let their actions or words scare you. If you feel you know what it is like .....
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Use Of Marijuana As Medicine
Number of words: 1163 - Number of pages: 5.... science has developed a synthetic form of THC,
the active chemical in marijuana. However, this synthetic drug, called Marinol,
is useless for most everyday treatment because it has the unpleasant side effect
of being a powerful sedative. A member of Milwaukee's AIDS community, said that
a friend of his was taking Marinol to increase his appetite: “He spends the
whole day laughing and watching movies...He can't even drive a car because he's
so out of it.” (3/25/97) In addition to that, Marinol only comes in pill form,
which makes it useless for patients taki .....
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