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Term Papers on Health and Medicine
Studies In Religion Euthanasia - A Moral Issue
Number of words: 1156 - Number of pages: 5.... Euthanasia is the difficulty of doctors to accurately diagnose a terminal illness. They are basically saying that the medical profession, despite some public opinion, is not infallible, and does make some mistakes. Also, if the sickness is cancer, it may go into remission, and then the person, if they were euthanised, would have died prematurely for no reason.
The next argument against the idea of Voluntary Euthanasia is the ambiguity of a valid consent from the terminally ill patient. Many drugs prescribed to these patients usually have a nasty side eff .....
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Abortion: Abusive Parents
Number of words: 882 - Number of pages: 4.... and
lose the rights to the child, and with proper counseling and therapy the child
will live a normal life. Yet, if the child is unborn, the mother can do
whatever she would like, even if it means harming the baby and the authorities
can do nothing. When the baby is born, the child might have irreparable brain
damage or some physical defect and would not be able to live a normal life, for
the rest of it's life. The abuse that the unborn child goes through is the same
as if it was born but the severity is much greater, and nothing can be done. To
me, this is .....
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Why Exercise Is Important
Number of words: 2835 - Number of pages: 11.... We all have different reasons for improving our physical fitness. But I think the one thing we can all come to ground on is that exercising and eating right is an essential imperative for our individual well being. Not because we want to follow society's footsteps, but because it's the right thing to do.
This guide will address the reasons of why exercising is a physical imperative in the areas of diet, aerobic exercise, and weight training. With the expert advice from numerous research institutes nationwide, as well as first hand tips from the pros them .....
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Melatonin And The Pineal Gland
Number of words: 2148 - Number of pages: 8.... no direct access to sunlight. Our eyes send it a message of how much
sunlight they see, and when it's dark. The sunlight prohibits the gland from
producing melatonin, so at night, when there's no sun, the sleep-inducing
hormone is released into our bodies. Because of the pineal gland and melatonin,
humans have known to sleep at night and wake during the day since long before
the age of alarm clocks.
Humans don't produce melatotin right from birth; it is transfered in utero
to babies through the placenta. For their first few days of life, babies still .....
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Things That Affect And Influence Our Health And Our Lives
Number of words: 2425 - Number of pages: 9.... foods on my body, and the manner in which to help improve my body through what I eat, I began being more aware of what I ate and learned on what effected me. I began changing my diet to a low-carbohydrate, and high-protein diet, thus enabling my body to stop burning the energy from the high-carbohydrate foods I eat to the fat cells in my body. Also, instead of snacking on ice cream or candy, I ate much more vegetables and healthier fruits such as bananas, apples, and oranges. As I began changing my dietary habits, I began seeing a change in my in my phy .....
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Mandatory AIDS Testing
Number of words: 1987 - Number of pages: 8.... promote
safer sex. The key word now is prevention. Among many proposed policies to
help prevent AIDS infection, one of the most controversial is mandatory AIDS
testing. Mandatory AIDS testing is theoretically very effective, however, when
it is applied, it is not practical at all because one is dealing with human
nature, the odd nature of the virus itself, and also all of the stigmas that are
attached to AIDS. Therefore, not only will mandatory AIDS testing not prevent
HIV infection, it will indirectly increase HIV infection because of the adverse
effect it .....
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About Medical Marijuana
Number of words: 1519 - Number of pages: 6.... alleviates the nausea, vomiting,
and loss of appetite caused by the disease itself and by treatment with AZT and
other drugs.
Glaucoma: Marijuana, by reducing intraocular pressure, alleviates the pain and
slows or halts the progress of the disease. Glaucoma, which damages vision by
gradually increasing eye pressure over time, is the leading cause of blindness
in the United States.
Multiple Sclerosis: Marijuana reduces the muscle pain and spasticity caused by
the disease. It may also relieve tremor and unsteadiness of gait, and it helps
some patients with .....
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Reproductive Technologies: Does Choice Mean Freedom?
Number of words: 1715 - Number of pages: 7.... choices made
available to her by medical science or by the men which are directly involved
with them in the decision.
In order to truly understand this issue we must look at it's core,
reproductive technology. This is a vast area to discuss because it ranges from
artificial insemination to abortion to contraception to genetic engineering with
many area in between.
Artificial insemination is the introduction of sperm to an ovum
artificially either inside or outside the female genital tract. Abortion is the
"extermination of pregnancy before the fetus is ca .....
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