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Medicine: "Microsurgery: Sew Small"
Number of Words: 893 / Number of Pages: 4
... years ago, this man's thumb would have been lost. But in the
1960s, surgeon's began using microscopes to sew what previously had been
almost invisible blood vessels and nerves in limbs. Their sewing
technique had been developed on large blood vessels over a half century
earlier but could not be used in microsurgery until the needles and
sutures became small enough. The surgical technique, still widely used
today, had taken the frustrating unreliability out of sewing slippery,
round-ended blood vessels by ingeniously turning them into triangles. To
do this, a cut end of a blood vessel was stitched ...
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Euthanasia Is Religious, Medically, And Legally Wrong
Number of Words: 1358 / Number of Pages: 5
... for the first time in the state
of Washington. Although polls before the vote revealed strong support for
it,the ballot was defeated by fifty-four to forty-six percent,and euthanasia
remains illegal in Noth America. In addition to violating civil law,euthanasia
also contradicts the laws of many religions of the world. It is God who
controlls life and death. Man will take this responsibility if euthanasia is
permitted. It is stated in the ten commandments,"Do not commit murder". Murder
can take many forms,one of which is suicide,the taking of one's own life. This
is forbidden by the Christian religion ...
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Assisted Suicides
Number of Words: 683 / Number of Pages: 3
... agree. With the assistance of Dr. Kevorkian, she died and
the retired pathologist presided at his 38th assisted suicide, fairly confident
that he will not be prosecuted or even suffer public disapproval.
Many of the people who have sought out Dr. Kevorkian have been terribly ill
and suffering, with no hope of long-term survival. Their stories offered
examples that built public sympathy for this cause. But from the beginning,
even among observers who believe that the desperately sick should be given help
to die, there have been questionable cases. For example, a woman in her fifties
allegedly s ...
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Morality And Legality Of Abortion
Number of Words: 546 / Number of Pages: 2
... another in an accident.
There are severe repercussions for rapists and assault of another person. We
also often assert that to harm oneself intentionally or in a way that could
have been prevented by our own precaution is wrong. These examples include the
seatbelt and helmet laws and the ingestion of harmful drugs. In keeping with our
common and lawful morality that is careful to protect human life, the legality
of abortion appears incongruent.
An important question of this issue is of the point at which the life
conceived inside a woman's body is considered a life, rather than her personal
prope ...
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Melatonin And The Pineal Gland
Number of Words: 2148 / Number of Pages: 8
... melatonin, so at night, when there's no sun, the sleep-inducing
hormone is released into our bodies. Because of the pineal gland and melatonin,
humans have known to sleep at night and wake during the day since long before
the age of alarm clocks.
Humans don't produce melatotin right from birth; it is transfered in utero
to babies through the placenta. For their first few days of life, babies still
have to receive it from breast milk. Our levels of melatonin peak during
childhood, then decrease at the beginning of puberty, so that other hormones can
take control of our bodies. As we ...
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On Ockham's Razor And Gulf Ills
Number of Words: 311 / Number of Pages: 2
... Committee, these
top 10 candidates:
Biological warfare agents
Chemical warfare agents
Depleted uranium in shells, armor
Infectious diseases
Oil-well fires
Pesticides
Petroleum products
Stress
Pyridostigmine bromide as an antidote to poison gas
Vaccines
Several of these putative causes, such as oil-well fires, can be eliminated
if, as Katherine Leisure finds, some servicemen and women who suffer from
the syndrome were long gone from the Gulf before combat started and Iraq
fired the wells.
Per Ockham's Razor, we think infe ...
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Auguments About Abortion
Number of Words: 1078 / Number of Pages: 4
... the Constitution, of
certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by
the people." This in turn, is guaranteeing a women the right to have an
abortion. Pro-choice people say that abortion is the killing of a child, but
pro-choice people do not consider the fetus a child. A philosopher, Mary Anne
Warren, proposed that consciousness, reasoning, self-motivated activity, and
self awareness are factors that determine 'person-hood'.
But, a misconception that held is that people who are pro-choice are
actually pro-abortion. Many people that support the right of a women to ...
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Teeth And Diseases Affecting Your Teeth
Number of Words: 729 / Number of Pages: 3
... and 12 molars.
The 4 wisdom teeth develop after the other 8 molars, as the jaws increase
in size. If this increase is insufficient, the wisdom teeth may become
impacted, that is wedged between the jawbone and other teeth, sometimes
resulting in pain and inflammation. The upper teeth, called maxillary, and
the lower teeth, called mandibular, are shaped in such a manner that they
interdigitate (fit together) when the jaws are closed. This fit is
essential for the teeth to function properly when biting food with the
incisors (front teeth) and when chewing and grinding food with the back
teeth (m ...
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Smoking
Number of Words: 234 / Number of Pages: 1
... report. The proportion of males who smoke decreased from
more than 60 percent to about 25 percent; however, the percentage of women who
smoke cigarettes increased. Smoking also became more prevalent among young
adults, with about 29 percent of high school seniors admitting to smoking in
1975; but by 1987 this proportion decreased to 18.7 percent. There are programs
that exist to help smokers quit. Some involve group support, whereas others use
aversive techniques in which participants smoke many cigarettes rapidly to the
point of becoming sick of them.
More than 30 million persons in the U.S. s ...
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Teenage Drinking
Number of Words: 629 / Number of Pages: 3
... a daily basis. Some ads put out by beer companies seem to be directed at a younger crowd. Take for instance the Budweiser frogs and iguanas. They have a playfully image that can be received by children and teens.
It is known that drinking alcohol has very negative effects on the human body. Molecules in the alcohol act as neurotransmitters and turn cells off in the Reticular Activating System, RAS for short. When these cells turn off you become drowsy, your cerebellum is tricked to think you are asleep and you begin to stumble and fall. The alcohol also affects your speech, making it slurred a ...
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