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Term Papers on Health and Medicine
Creatine Supplements And Athletes
Number of words: 1171 - Number of pages: 5.... in the real world. With the overwhelming evidence from theory to application, creatine supplementation does improve body composition and athletic performance.
Creatine is derived from the amino acids arginine, glycine and methionine. It can be produced in your liver, pancreas and kidneys or can be obtained from a diet rich in meat or fish (2.2 pounds of meat contains approximately 5 grams of creatine). Ingesting creatine increase the amounts of free creatine and phosphocreatine (PCr) in the muscle. The energy to rephosphoryate adenosine diphosphate (ADP) .....
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Partial-Birth Abortion And Its Affect On The American People
Number of words: 1336 - Number of pages: 5.... thirteen years
of experience, was assigned by her nursing agency to an abortion clinic. Since
Nurse Shafer considered herself to be "very pro-choice," she didn't think this
assignment would be a problem. She was wrong. This is what Nurse Shafer saw:
"I stood at the doctor's side and watched him perform a
partial-birth abortion on a woman who was six months
pregnant. The baby's heartbeat was clearly visible on the
ultrasound screen. The doctor delivered the baby's body and
arms, everything but his little head. The b .....
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Anthrax: Chemical Warfare
Number of words: 455 - Number of pages: 2.... dead.
Anthrax can be sprayed into the air in a subway of any other public places with something as simple as an aerosol can or a pesticide spray device. Anthrax spores can be placed in a artillery shell that could explode and spray the bacteria over a wide area. Engineers also reportedly built small unmanned planes that could deliver anthrax to neighboring countries, flying low and undetected. Similar unmanned aircraft can be used as a inexpensive biological warfare arsenal.
"If you delivered anthrax against Jerusalem or Tel Aviv, you could be looking at thous .....
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Down Syndrome
Number of words: 1140 - Number of pages: 5.... muscle tone (babies appear “floppy”), flat facial features, with a small nose, upward slant to the eyes, small skin folds on the inner corner of the eyes, small, abnormally shaped ears, single deep crease across the center of the palm, hyperflexibility, fifth finger has only one flexion furrow instead of two, extra space between the big toe and the second toe, or enlarged tongue
As many as 50 percent of the children with are also born with heart defects. Some of these defects are major, and the child will experience heart failure shortly after birth. However, .....
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Antibiotics
Number of words: 1003 - Number of pages: 4.... He detected that a
substance he called "penicillin" destroyed bacteria. Then in the late 1930's,
two British scientists invented a method of extracting penicillin from the mold.
This was the start of developing new drugs to treat diseases and bacteria.
Over the years, numerous thousands of antibiotic material have been
found in nature as well as produced chemically but, there are few that are safe
and useful. However the ones that are safe and effective have saved many lives
and have helped extend life expectancy.
Right now, there is more than 70 different ki .....
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The Partial Birth Abortion Debate
Number of words: 898 - Number of pages: 4.... According to Shafer, the baby was alive and moving as the abortionist: "delivered the baby's body and arms--everything but the head. The doctor kept the baby's head just inside the uterus. The baby's little fingers were clasping and unclasping, his feet were kicking. Then the doctor suck the scissors through the back of his head, and the baby's arms jerked out in a flinch, a startled reaction, like a baby does when he thinks that he might fall. The doctor opened up the scissors, stuck a high-powered suction tube into the opening and sucked the baby's br .....
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Life Or Death: Who Chooses?
Number of words: 4437 - Number of pages: 17.... the 20th Century. But who in reality
is using arguments of a bygone Century? It is an incontrovertible fact of
biological science - Make no Mistake - that from the moment of conception,
a new human life has been created.
Only those who allow their emotional passion to overide their
knowledge, can deny it: only those who are irrational or ignorant of
science, doubt that when a human sperm fertilizes a human ovum a new human
being is created. A new human being who carries genes in its cells that
make that human being uniquely different from any and other human .....
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Euthanasia Term Paper
Number of words: 3093 - Number of pages: 12.... ill persons ask
their physician, friend or relative , to put them to death. The patients
or their relatives may ask a doctor to withhold treatment and let them die.
Many critics of the medical profession contend that too often doctors play
god on operating tables and in recovery rooms. They argue that no doctor
should be allowed to decide who lives and who dies.
The issue of euthanasia is having a tremendous impact on medicine in
the United States today. It was only in the nineteenth century that the
word came to be used in the sense of speeding .....
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