Papers on Health and Medicine
Life Or Death: Who Chooses?
Words: 4437 - Pages: 17.... own protection, have been accused of having a 19th Century
approach to life in the last third of 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 .....
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The Digestive System
Words: 420 - Pages: 2.... the small intestine is lined with villi that absorbs digested food into the body. also contains other organs that help you break up food like you teeth, your tongue, liver and your pancreas.
The Esophagus is your tube that your food goes down into the stomach. If we didn't have an esophagus we probley wouldn't be alive. Your stomach is your main organ because it is the thing that makes your food into smaller units and you would die if you didn't have a stomach. Enzyme is a kind of protein that speeds up chemical reactions in the body. If we didn't have enzyme everybody would be walking 1 mile an hour and you wouldn't have any energy. T .....
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Words: 1141 - Pages: 5.... have severe heart and brain problems. Alcohol attacks virtually any of the body's cell (Dorfman, 60). Mid-facial abnormalities are a part of the child for life. Some of these common abnormalities are a broad nasal bridge, poorly developed filtrum, thin upper limit, flattening of the axillary area, and a short upturned or beak-like nose.
Some of the more serious effects that can be more dangerous are a poor dental alignment, optic nerve defects, and arterial septal defect (Welkselman, 297). Welkselman thinks that affected infants frequently are measured at birth to be below the tenth percentile for their age in length, weight, and head .....
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Reproductive Technologies
Words: 1195 - Pages: 5.... or, having a high risk of developing numerous health problems. Other ways of becoming pregnant include IVF (In-Vertro Fertilization), which takes healthy sperm and a healthy egg and conception in a test tube occurs and then it is transplanted back into the mothers’ womb. This also can create multiple births because of the high number eggs that must be used in order to up the potential of “making a baby”. Many of these couples have options of selected abortion to limit the risk to mother and child. These issues have many feminists and doctors having heated arguments over whether or not to abolish, regulate or just let the infertility d .....
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Alzheimer's Disease
Words: 1285 - Pages: 5.... specific areas. One is the cortex of the frontal and cerebral
lobes1. The second is the hippocampus (meaning seahorses in Greek which it
resembles2) which is located below the cerebral cortex and responsible for
short-term memory. If we study samples of these two section, we would find three
irregularities which are not found in normal brain matter. These three are
called neurofibrillary tangles, neuritic plagues and granulovacuolar
degeneration3.
A nerve cell has numerous axons and dendrites coming out of it. A
neurofibrillary tangle is when the neuron changes. A number of dendrites are
missing and the nucleus is filled with protein fila .....
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The Harm Of Illegal Drugs
Words: 503 - Pages: 2.... diseases. “The western states have the highest percentage of users at 77%… The north eastern states are not close behind, there running at 22%. As of October, 1974, 29 million people have tried marijuana. Out of the 29 million, 12 million of them use it regurlary.”(Carr 56). At high school level one-half of all students have tried marijuana.
The next drug, heroine, is a narcotic drug derived in 1898 in Germany as a pain reliever. It was discovered during the search for a non-addictive morphine substitute. It was not carefully tested. Heroine is a bitter, odorless, white crystalline power. It can be injected into the veins which b .....
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Herpes-Simplex: Type 2
Words: 483 - Pages: 2.... reservoir of latent virus that is the source of repeated
attacks. Except for lotions to relieve pain, itching, or inflammation, no
established treatmemt has actually been developed.
The second type of the herpes simplex virus, however, is the usual cause
of genital herpes. Herpes infections of the genital area have become
increasingly common, going along with a rise in general of many sexually
transmitted diseases. Sometimes accompanied by headache and fever, the condition
usually begins with a mild itching, followed by the development of clusters of
blisters that break and crust to form scabs that eventually dry up. The process
may la .....
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The Fabry Disease
Words: 331 - Pages: 2.... body fluid,
under the skin may also occur. Skin will show telangiectasis, inflated intra-
epidermal (intra - within, epidermal - outer layer) spaces filled with blood.
Places (vessel wall) where there is no telangiectasis are filled with deposits
of glycolipids. These deposits are also found in the heart, muscles, renal
tubules and glomeruli, central nervous system, spleen, liver, bone marrow, lymph
nodes and cornea. Retarded growth, delayed puberty and ocular abnormalities are
also common symptoms. These symptoms are mostly fond in males because they
display full-blown syndrome, while females displays a partial form.
Diagnosis
Th .....
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The Case For Euthanasia: Should Physician-Assisted Suicide Be Legalized?
Words: 1546 - Pages: 6.... to expedite their death with as
little pain as possible. Contained herein are the arguments for and against
the le galization of doctor-assisted suicide, as well as where the state
courts stand in respect to this most delicate of issues. In the hopes of
clarification, we must first distinguish between active and passive
euthanasia. Passive euthanasia involves the patient's refusal of medical
assistance. It involves the right to die which is protected by the United
States Constitution clauses of due process liberty and the right to privacy
(Fourteenth Amendment). The right to doctor-assisted suicide, or active
euthanasia, consists of, "...a .....
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Learning CPR
Words: 895 - Pages: 4.... Department for the past three years. During that time, I have performed CPR hundreds of times. To date, I have been credited with 39 pre-hospital save awards. These awards are given to emergency personnel who successfully revive patients who have suffered cardiac arrest, outside of the hospital setting. In each of the thirty-nine instances, healthcare professionals, bystanders or family members initiated CPR immediately. Early CPR is one of the most vital links in what is referred to as the cardiac chain of life.
The cardiac chain of life is broken down into four vital components. The first is notification of the 911 or emergency medic .....
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