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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Number of Words: 865 / Number of Pages: 4
... further into the lungs. All along the breathing
passages, tiny protective hairs called cilia help keep the dust and other
pollutants from entering your lungs. These airways end in tiny air sacs
known as alveoli. The alveoli transfer oxygen from the air you inhale
directly into the bloodstream.
Chronic bronchitis is one of the major lung diseases that underlie COPD.
Chronic bronchitis often develops in people over age 40 who are or used to
be moderate to heavy smokers. In chronic bronchitis, the bronchial tubes
have been constantly irritated by inhaled cigarette smoke, air pollution,
or other harmful ...
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Birth Control At Schools
Number of Words: 472 / Number of Pages: 2
... therefore, passing out condoms may be promoting teenagers to have sex. Parents think giving free condoms to children sends mixed messages on what to think about sex education or how to have sex.
Promoting safe sex and distributing free condoms in high schools are great ways to control the rampant spread of sexually transmitted diseases and high levels of teen childbirth. Whether it is a lack of knowledge or a lack of not caring, it is prominent that children need to be influenced to have safe sex. Teachers and staff members are not pushing children to take and use the condoms. It is solely th ...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Number of Words: 1141 / Number of Pages: 5
... 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 size. These children never catch up to their peers and they remain in the tenth percentile for these measures throughout childhood (298). Physical effects are more common in children whose mother had a low d ...
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Breast Feeding Infants
Number of Words: 1701 / Number of Pages: 7
... of breast-feeding, but studies have proved otherwise.
It has been said that breast-feeding is the ideal method for feeding and nurturing infants, and that it is the best way to achieve optimal infant and child health, growth and development. "Human milk is uniquely superior for infant feeding and is species-specific; all substitute feeding options differ markedly from it." (www.app.org) A mother's milk changes in composition as the infant grows, to meet it's nutritional needs, but besides providing an excellent source of nutrition breast-feeding has many health benefits. (http://medicalreport.hea ...
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Marijuana As A Medicine
Number of Words: 1163 / Number of Pages: 5
... for most everyday treatment because it has the unpleasant side effect
of being a powerful sedative. A member of Milwaukee's AIDS community, said that
a friend of his was taking Marinol to increase his appetite: “He spends the
whole day laughing and watching movies...He can't even drive a car because he's
so out of it.” (3/25/97) In addition to that, Marinol only comes in pill form,
which makes it useless for patients taking it for nausea. Marijuana has neither
of those drawbacks. Because it is usually smoked, even the most nauseous patient
can use it as well as easily regulate their intake (“Medical M ...
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Mumps
Number of Words: 256 / Number of Pages: 1
... but young adults may catch the disease. Everyone born
before1957 has already had mumps. After one attack of mumps, you will have
lifelong immunity. The mumps virus is spread by contact of another person's
discharge from the nose or mouth. The virus is present in these discharges from
six days before symptoms to nine days after the glands begin to swell. The virus
will then incubate for two to three weeks before symptoms appear.
Symptoms include headaches, jaw being painful and tender to the touch,
fever, and difficulty swallowing. The swelling usually disappears after seven
to ten da ...
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About Medical Marijuana
Number of Words: 1519 / Number of Pages: 6
... by reducing intraocular pressure, alleviates the pain and
slows or halts the progress of the disease. Glaucoma, which damages vision by
gradually increasing eye pressure over time, is the leading cause of blindness
in the United States.
Multiple Sclerosis: Marijuana reduces the muscle pain and spasticity caused by
the disease. It may also relieve tremor and unsteadiness of gait, and it helps
some patients with bladder control. Multiple sclerosis is the leading cause of
neurological disability among young and middle-aged adults in the United States.
Epilepsy: Marijuana prevents epileptic seizur ...
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Birth Defects
Number of Words: 2396 / Number of Pages: 9
... surgery is required. Parents feel very helpless and
guilty in many of these and similar situations, feeling as if they are abnormal.
However most can learn to walk, talk, dress themselves and eat. Special work
programs are available that can help the child reach their education level. Also
these work programs help takes off the many stresses facing parents. They no
longer have to go it alone.
Tay Sachs disease is another selective genetic disorder that destroyed
nerve cells. This causes mental retardation, loss of muscle control and death.
Children who inherit an abnormal gene from both pare ...
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The Morality Of Abortion
Number of Words: 1401 / Number of Pages: 6
... a child poorly for eighteen years then it is to terminate
a fetus that cannot think, feel or is aware of its existence.
On the second point of making the way that conception occurred a non-
factor I am not saying that having the babies of rapists or in cases of incest
is okay. Still, for the argument that abortion is immoral, you must argue that
the action is immoral, not the child. The child cannot be either at this point.
If we are then talking about the act of abortion then who is to determine right
and wrong. A court of law should have no place in this decision. The primary
interests in this ...
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Comparing Treatment Approaches
Number of Words: 1189 / Number of Pages: 5
... with this point of view is that cocaine has not been shown to be very physically addicting, as there are no major symptoms of withdrawal that the patient is trying to combat by self-administering more of the drug. By making the drug ineffective in the blood stream, addicts would not receive what is thought to be positive reinforcement through cocaine's effects on the dopaminergic systems in the brain, but there is no evidence to prove that it would therefore stop them from taking it in increasingly higher doses, until the amount of drug in the system outweighed the ability of the immunological resp ...
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