Papers on Health and Medicine
Assisted Suicide
Words: 1273 - Pages: 5.... doctor assisted suicide should be
made legal throughout the nation. If a terminally ill patient wants to take his
or her life due to excruciating pain, he or she should have the ability to
utilize euthanasia. Ultimately, the decision should be that of the terminally
ill individual.
The main controversy over this issue, is the question of morality. Is
it morally right for a doctor to assist in suicide? Many individuals feel that
it is not. It is thought if assisted suicide is legalized throughout the states,
it will encourage families with terminally ill relatives to push them
prematurely to their demise(Carter 2). This is an outland .....
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Abortion Debate - Pro-Life Stance
Words: 4076 - Pages: 15.... for it's 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 diffe .....
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Pregnancy, Lactation, And Infancy
Words: 685 - Pages: 3.... gain about 30 pounds, which covers the growth and development of the placenta, uterus, blood, breast, and infant. By reamining active throughout pregnancy, a woman can develop the strength she needs to carry the extra weight and maintain habts that will help her lose it after birth.
From conception to birth, all parts of the infant, bones, muscles, organs, blood cells, skin, and other tissue are made from nutrients in the foods the mother eats. Nutrients needs during pregnancy and lactation are higher than at any other time. A pregnant women needs extra food energy, but only alittle extra, 400kcalories above the allowa .....
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Words: 1540 - Pages: 6.... of the lip with flat philtrum (upper lip ridges), thin upper lip and flat mid face. The last characteristic is signs of central nervous system damage. However damages appears to vary in every child.
The causes of FAS are alcohol in pregnant women’s bloodstream circulates to the fetus by crossing the placenta. There the alcohol interferes with the ability to the fetus to receive sufficient oxygen and nourishment for a normal cell development in the brain and other body organs (FAS home page). Not all women who drink will have babies with FAS, however 40% of women who drink heavily during pregnancy will have a child with (Creative C .....
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Lyme Disease In Horses
Words: 856 - Pages: 4.... horse to contract Lyme disease. Clinical signs of Lyme Disease are apparent in less than 10% of horses that are infected.
First discovered in Connecticut in 1975, Lyme Disease has been reported in 45 states, however the disease is mainly clustered in the mid-Atlantic, northeast, North Central and pacific coastal regions of the United States. Ninety-four percent of the human cases are reported from California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
For a tick to pass Lyme Disease to a horse, it must feed for 12 to 24 hours. This can work to our advantage in preventing the disease. Proper gr .....
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Vegetarians
Words: 803 - Pages: 3.... history. Turkey is eaten on
Thanksgiving, not Tofu Surprise. Fish on Fridays, not salad. Pop and son would
go hunting in the winter for fresh game to eat, they wouldn’t go picking berries
and roots. Those who could not or would not eat meat did not survive.
Studies have been done by M. J. Lentze, a German who found that vegetarianism
causes impaired growth in children five years or younger. Vegan children even
fail to grow as well with supplements that exceed the Recommended Daily
Allowance.
It is true that many vegetables contain a high amount of protein, but the amount
is not even close in comparison to meat. To get the same .....
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The Argument Against Female Circumcision
Words: 1145 - Pages: 5.... she had with women who underwent the operation.
El Saadawi goes into detail telling about the procedure that the girls underwent in her culture, usually around the age of seven or eight. The local midwife called the daya, would show up to perform the operation. In most cases two women members of the family would hold the girl by her thighs to expose her genitals and to prevent struggling. Then the daya would proceed to cut of the clitoris of the girl with a sharp razor. One of the women El Saadawi interviewed explained “the daya sat between these two women, holding a sharp razor in her hand which she used to cut off the cl .....
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HIV
Words: 1876 - Pages: 7.... when international travel began to increase. The HIV and AIDS
viruses were believed to arrive in the United States sometime during the
nineteen seventies. It was a common disease between gay males and intravenous
drug abusers. Now it is well known that the viruses have been transmitted
through sexually, occasionally through blood and organ transplants.
The acronym HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus, where as the
acronym AIDS stands for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. When someone has
contracted the HIV virus in almost all cases it produces the AIDS virus.
Apparently there has been a controversy that HIV really isn't t .....
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Ebola Virus
Words: 434 - Pages: 2.... United States: The United States
Army Research Institute of Infectious Disease (USAMRID) in Reston, Virginia, and
the Center for Disease Control (CDC), in Atlanta, Georgia.
Ebola Zaire if great at what it does, to well. It kills so quickly that
the index case, the first person to start an outbreak is usually dead before the
proper authorities can show up and try to back track where it came from, defying
a decent strategy to keep people away from its natural reservoir. However, it
destroys the body so quickly that it doesn't have a chance to spread very far,
at least in humans. This virus is a true paradox.
Ebola Zaire is a nasty littl .....
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All You Need To Know About AIDS
Words: 3033 - Pages: 12.... somewhere in Africa about 20 years ago.
There it first appeared as a mysterious ailment afflicting primarily
heterosexuals of both sexes. It probably was spread especially fast by
primarily female prostitutes there. AIDS has already become a crisis of
STAGGERING proportions in parts of Africa. In Zaire, it is estimated
that over twenty percent of the adults currently carry the virus. That
figure is increasing. And what occurred there will, if no cure is found,
most likely occur here among heteroosexual folks.
AIDS was first seen as a dise.ase of gay males in this
country. This was a result of the fact .....
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