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Term Papers on Health and Medicine
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Number of words: 654 - Number of pages: 3.... while they were pregnant. Secondly many of the infants were found to by lying face down at the time of their death. Another important issue that has been further investigated is that SIDS may be the result of the combinations of many syndromes. Such as: gastroesophageal reflux mixed with respiratory disease. #3
One of the newest ideas that researchers have suggested may be the cause of SIDS is “Vertebral Artery Compression Resulting from Head Movement”. This concept suggests that the rotation and extension of an infant’s neck during sleep may result in .....
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Dreaming Problems
Number of words: 702 - Number of pages: 3.... learning, reasoning and calulation functions to decrease in
efficiency. Lack of sleep can lead to illness and psychiatric problems also.
An approximate 200,000 auto accidents are probably caused by sleep hindrence,
and also, an estimate was made that sleep deprivation and work cost the economy
one hundred fifty thousand dollars.
Amount of sleep necessary depends upon the individual. Some are ready
to go with six hours of sleep, while others canąt function without nine. If a
person feels unable to stay focused during monotonous or boring work, it is
possible .....
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Pro Choice: Letter To The Editor
Number of words: 294 - Number of pages: 2.... When this right is denied to someone by the government, undoubtedly
something very wrong.
It is such the case with making abortions illegal. By outlawing abortions,
you are outlawing a woman's choice for how she will live her life. The
government has in a sense become a "big brother" and has decided what is good
for her and what is not. When government goes beyond foreign affair and the
protection of it's citizens, into the controlling of lives and decisions that we
make, it is no longer a government. It becomes something that goes against every
single principle and idea that this country was fo .....
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Psychological Stress
Number of words: 1785 - Number of pages: 7.... goals or needs (Corey 207). All of the little things that frustrate us include waiting in lines or traffic, sense of failure or inadequacies, bad relationships, deaths, and loneliness. Self-defeating thoughts are a way in which we almost deliberately block attainment of our needs. If in our heads, we have this preconceived notion that we are incapable of obtaining something that we want or that others could not possibly love us, we create a self-fulfilling prophecy. I used the word "deliberately" in describing self-doubt because we have the ability to change .....
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Abortion
Number of words: 828 - Number of pages: 4.... able to have children or are just trying to
defend a baby that can't defend it self. The pro's of pro-life are that the
baby gets a chance to live and experience life outside of the womb and maybe
someone who is unable to have children will get the chance to be a mother or
father if they adopt this child who would have been aborted. The opposing side
takes a different side to the argument.
The pro side of legalizing abortion is known as pro-choice which is the
side of the argument that believes that if a woman is pregnant she should have
the right .....
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Sleep And Dreams
Number of words: 673 - Number of pages: 3.... We constantly go through cycles of sleep and wakefulness. During each cycle, our minds must be active. Obviously when we are awake, we are using our minds for various actions. When we are asleep, it is not as obvious how are minds are at work. To keep are minds active during sleep we must dream.
Many researchers suggest that dreams be formed by disturbances of the body. Not until that mid 19th century another philosopher as great as Aristotle come along. A man by the name of Sigmund Freud truly revolutionized the field of dreaming. Freud believed that the a .....
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Heart Attacks And Its Causes
Number of words: 950 - Number of pages: 4.... attack victims actually have levels of cholesterol that would be considered normal, and as many as one fourth of heart attacks occur in people with no known risk factors at all (Cowley, 1997).
The hypothesis that high levels of cholesterol cause heart attacks may be attributed to this: LDL, or "bad" cholesterol, induces cells to produce proteins in the arterial walls of the heart and the veins leading to the heart. Macrophages eat the fatty substances in the heart and then die, causing a build up in the veins. Conventionally speaking, the blockage of LDL wo .....
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Man-made CFCs Are Jeopardizing Our Future
Number of words: 2014 - Number of pages: 8.... responsible for the depletion of the ozone layer in the stratosphere (Gutnik 54). CFCs are most commonly used as the propellant in spray cans, the coolant in refrigerators and air conditioners, in foam and plastic insulation, and in industrial solvents (Caldara 20).
Industry began using CFCs in the World War II era. In 1973, atmospheric chemists F. Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina of the University of California at Irvine postulated the connection between ozone depletion and CFCs. Although CFCs were found to be harmful to the ozone twenty three years ago th .....
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