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Birth Control At Schools
Number of Words: 476 / 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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Being An Athletic Trainer
Number of Words: 719 / Number of Pages: 3
... characteristics are important to any career. Some jobs are more demanding than others physically. While others suggest a challenge more mentally than physically.
Physically
For an athletic trainer, physically you must be able to communicate well with athletes on proper use of equipment and confer with coaches and physicians. You also have to kneel, stoop, and crouch to examine and treat injuries.
Athletic trainers also should have good hand-eye coordination. They need to see and react to almost any situation in an instant. If you wish to become an athletic trainer you also need to have good s ...
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Suicide Solution
Number of Words: 540 / Number of Pages: 2
... were not stopped, the
impact would be noticed.
Another popular argument for stoppers, people who want to prevent
suicide, is that nothing can be bad enough. Yet how do they know this?
They do not have to put up with the same stuff the suicide victim does
everyday. How could they possibly know what the potential suicide victim
feels. Just as a severely burned victim may wish to be allowed to die in
peace, the suicide victim wishes the same. To die in peace with no
argument from others.
The argument of "look at the people you will hurt" also does not
hold. Imidiate family members will ...
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Hepatitis
Number of Words: 1931 / Number of Pages: 8
... non-viral
Hepatitis which is caused by substance. One rumor that has spread about
hepatitis is that a person can only contract Hepatitis if associated with HIV or
AIDS. This is not true! Any one can become infected with Hepatitis.
Unfortunately this is about all most people know of Hepatitis. They need to
know the full horror of which the virus is capable.
The first of the Hepatitis viral infection to be discovered is Hepatitis
A. Hep. A is the mild mannered virus compared to the other viruses. It has the
symptoms of influenza, fever, vomiting, loss of appetite, and weakening of body,
but it do ...
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Clinical Chemistry Tests In Medicine
Number of Words: 2863 / Number of Pages: 11
... that reduces glomerular filtration or increases
protein catabolism results in elevated BUN levels.
Creatinine is another indicator of kidney function. Creatinine is a
waste product derived from creatine. It is freely filtered by the glomerulus
and blood levels are useful for estimating glomerular filtration rate. Muscle
tissue contains phosphocreatinine which is converted to creatinine by a
nonenzymatic process. This spontaneous degradation occurs at a rather
consistent rate (Merck, 1991).
Causes of increases of both BUN and creatinine can be divided into three
major categories: prerenal, ren ...
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Cancer
Number of Words: 1507 / Number of Pages: 6
... abnormal and has an unstructured appearance. Of
greater importance, benign tissue does not metastasize, or begin to grow in
other sites, like malignant tumors do. Cancer always refers to metastasized
tumors but the term tumor is not always necessarily cancer. A tumor is any
living tissue that is distinguishable as abnormal living tissue. After a
cancer forms, it can also change from a benign to a malignant state, therefore
making the cell grow at a more rapid rate. The development of the cell starts
when it forms notable abnormalities in chromosomes and then multiplies
exceedingly. Then metastasis us ...
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Suicide
Number of Words: 937 / Number of Pages: 4
... . Women are about two to three times as likely to try to kill themselves, as men. It is believed that more men succeed in committing because they are more deliberate in their intentions, they tend to use more lethal methods to kill themselves, and are less likely to talk to anyone about their plan.
There are several factors, which place individuals at a higher risk for . Psychologic autopsy studies have shown that 90% of the completed s are related to psychiatric disorders, most commonly, major depression and alcohol abuse. The studies show the illness was not the cause, but in combination wit ...
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HIV/AIDS Seminar
Number of Words: 614 / Number of Pages: 3
... HIV/AIDS testing, but will it be taken advantage of? Since these are adults being familiarized with HIV/AIDS, how to contract it, the consequences, and the raw statistics, they will probably disregard all of the information. Education on the issue of HIV/AIDS obviously needs to begin at an earlier age.
Since this is such a controversial issue, the age at which education should begin is debatable. The children need to be mature enough to handle the concerns and they need to be young enough to begin practicing measures of safety that will continue throughout their lives. But, when it comes d ...
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Physician Assisted Suicide
Number of Words: 778 / Number of Pages: 3
... or agent"(Death and Dying,92). The most recent case is that of The State of Florida v. Charles Hall. "Charles Hall is dying of AIDS and challenged the State of Florida to let him die by a self-administered lethal injection without fear of prosecution"(http://www.rights.org/ deathnet/open.html). On January 31, 1997, a Judge ruled that Charles Hall could take his own life with the aid of a doctor. Senior Judge S. Joseph Davis, brought in from Seminole County, "found that Florida’s strict privacy law and the equal protection clause in the U.S. Constitution entitled Hall, 35, and Dr. McIver to carry ...
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AIDS: Myths And Facts
Number of Words: 650 / Number of Pages: 3
... Drug addicts have been infected through the intravenous injection of
drugs with “second hand” or dirty needles used by someone who carried the HIV
virus. Prostitutes contract and spread AIDS through sexual activity with
several different partners without knowing their partners' sexual history. This
in turn, leads to the spread of the disease throughout the heterosexual
community. Innocent infants are victims of the disease, born by mothers who are
infected with AIDS. It is, of course, true that homosexuals do spread the
disease. However, to label AIDS a “gay disease” is nothing less than lu ...
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