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Assisted Suicide: An Easier Way Out
Words: 565 - Pages: 3.... not want to live the rest of their short life with all the pain and
frustration.
Next, the terminally ill might injure their body even more by taking up
the decision in their own hands. Offering help in assisted suicides to the
fatally ill would prevent anything like this from happening. The Second Circuit
Court of Appeals created a law that prohibited physicians from helping their
patients die (Lemonick, p.82). Now, patients who are terminally ill and who
wish to die might decide to kill themselves in a manner that is less humane than
with a lethal injection or dosage of medicine. This new law makes it much
harder to get prop .....
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Alzheimer's Disease: "Where Has Yesterday Gone"
Words: 2690 - Pages: 10.... is some mild impairment in our recollection of recent events, such as
forgetting why one went into a room or misplacing a person's eye glasses, which
even young are guilty of doing. As reported by Larry Squire, "forgetting is
quite normal and usually develops in the third decade of life, and by one
estimate 85 percent of the healthy elderly β those over 65βsuffer some memory
impairment (59)."
According to Dr. Seligmann, "forgetting is the process through which
information in memory becomes inaccessible, either because it is stored but is
not at that time retrievable (51)." This is one of the most important factors in
forgettin .....
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Antibiotics
Words: 1003 - Pages: 4.... to be either dangerous or ineffective.
In 1928 there was a discovery by Alexander Fleming. 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 .....
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Haemophilia
Words: 1118 - Pages: 5.... which is rare.)2 The other chromosome is likely
to be normal and she can therefore compensate for this defect.
There are two types of haemophilia, haemophilia A and B. Haemophilia A
is a hereditary disorder in which bleeding is due to deficiency of the
coagulation factor VIII (VIII:C)3. In most of the cases, this coagulant
protein is reduced but in a rare amount of cases, this protein is present
by immunoassay but defective.4 Haemophilia A is the most common severe
bleeding disorder and approximately 1 in 10,000 males is effected. The most
common types of bleeding are into the joints and muscles. Haemophilia is
severe if the fac .....
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Tuberculosis
Words: 742 - Pages: 3.... can have TB disease shortly after being infected with TB germs if the
person's immune system is weak.
TB can attack any part of the system. The lungs are the most common area of
attack. People with the TB disease have one or more of the following symptoms:
a cough that hangs on, fevers, weight loss, night sweats, constant fatigue, and
loss of appetite. A person with the TB disease in the late stages will cough up
blood streaked sputum. People who have Active TB disease usually only have mild
symptoms. There are three tests to diagnose TB disease. One is the Tuberculin
Mantoux PPD skin test; two is a Chest X-ray which is given aft .....
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Assisted Suicide
Words: 586 - Pages: 3.... the pain of a dying person. Having to live a life where every passing minute is dreaded is something 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 on .....
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Stressed With Stress
Words: 1269 - Pages: 5.... the most stressful of all things, especially for teenagers, are social events. Popularity, friends, relationships, and looks are more stressful things to teenagers than parents. However, adults tend to face such stressors as meeting deadlines, fear of failure, anger, and frustration at the workplace. Everybody is effected by stress when it comes to things like wars, pollution, poverty, overcrowding, and crime. It is important to learn how to live with these situations, because it is nearly impossible to get through life without encountering them.
Most people know that stress could be bad, but how bad? Physicians have proven that str .....
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Physician Assisted Suicide Right/Wrong
Words: 500 - Pages: 2.... basic of these is that suiicide is forbidden by the Bible. In fact, there are no specific biblical instructions against suicide, only prohibitions of killing which are better interpreted as forbidding the unlawful killing of others.Besides, the suicides that do occur in the Bible-Samson,Saul and Judas among others-are not described in a disapproving manner.
Both Jewish and Christian disapproval of suicide dates from the fourth century AD, late in the development of both religons, and does not derive directly from scripture. Ironically, the Christian Church, encouraged by the arguments of St.Augustine, adopted a strict prohibition against .....
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Impotency: New Therapy
Words: 140 - Pages: 1.... than most other treatments. According to almost 60 medical centers all
over the United States of America, the new approach has been found.
Transurethral Alprostadil has enabled 64.9% of all men with erectile disfunction
to have an erection during sexual intercourse, compared to 18.6% on placebo.
Other therapies include needle injection, vacuum devices, and implants.
the new treatment is used by inserting an applicator containing a microspository
of aprosital into the urethra after going to the bathroom. When a button on the
applicator is pressed the suppository is deposited into the urethral lining.
Then after ten minutes an erection .....
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Type II Diabetes
Words: 1512 - Pages: 6.... factors. There are conflicting ideas between sources. The most recent book I used was Diabetes by Carol Semple printed in 1996. On page seventeen, he states that Type II is hereditary. In my oldest source, Diabetes by Sarah Riedman printed in 1980, she stated on page five that Type II is not a hereditary disorder. I concluded that Type II is hereditary because all the newer sources support that fact. In my source from the Ames Center for Diabetes Center (written in 1995) Jackson and Weir stated that the gene, or genes, responsible for the most common kinds of remain a mystery. Scientists at Joslin Diabetes Center have identifi .....
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