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Abortion
Number of Words: 1427 / Number of Pages: 6
... younger than 15 jumped 18 percent. The rate among minority teens climbed from 186 per 1,000 to 189 per 1,000.
The most popular procedure involved in s is the vacuum aspiration which is done during the first trimester (three months or less since the women has become pregnant). A tube is simply inserted through the cervix and the contents of the uterus are vacuumed out. The most commonly used type of second trimester is called dilation and evacuation. Since the fetus has bones, bulk and can move, second trimester is not as simple. When as much of the fetus and placenta are vacuumed out then tweezers ...
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Ebola
Number of Words: 1298 / Number of Pages: 5
... for up to seven weeks. In the
African outbreaks it has also been transmitted by the reuse of needles because
the health care systems are so under financed. Ebola wasn't thought to be an
airborne virus, but recent studies by the US Army Medical Research Institute of
Infectious Diseases and the CDC found that monkeys showed Ebola like symptoms
after being exposed to aerosolized Ebola. The studies also found that the virus
is many times present in the respiratory systems of Ebola victims. Although the
1989 outbreak in Reston, Virginia wasn't harmful to humans, it was found that
droplet and vomit t ...
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Brain Function
Number of Words: 573 / Number of Pages: 3
... people. Left brain mostly focus on the logical analytical, judgment and verbal. The right side of the brain control the left side of the body, this brain focus more on creative, intuitive, it is concerned more with the visual and emotional side of the life.
When reading left brain is sensibly making connection and analyzing the meaning of the world, the syntax and other complex relation ships while putting it into language that can understand to human, meanwhile the right side is providing emotional and even humorous cues, decoding visual information and maintaining an integrated story structure. ...
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Dreams
Number of Words: 1481 / Number of Pages: 6
... dreaming world could be a very powerful thing so much so that it
causes a baby to be born because of lucid dreaming. In a true story taken from
the book called Living with Dreams a woman dreamt that she just had a period in
her dreams. This was so realistic that she actually thought she had a real
period not one dreamt up in a dream. A few days later she had sex thinking that
it was the best time to have sex without becoming pregnant. Two or three weeks
she felt something strange was happening and so consulted a doctor who said that
she had become pregnant. All this happened just because of a drea ...
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AIDS - What's New ?
Number of Words: 3362 / Number of Pages: 13
... 50,000 Canadians. Having been lulled into false security by
modern antibiotics and vaccines about our ability to conquer infections,
the Western world was ill prepared to cope with the advent of AIDS in 1981.
(Retro- spective studies now put the first reported U.S. case of AIDS as
far back as 1968.) The arrival of a new and lethal virus caught us off
guard. Research suggests that the agent responsible for AIDS probably
dates from the 1950s, with a chance infection of humans by a modified
Simian virus found in African green monkeys. Whatever its origins,
scientists surmise that the disease s ...
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Nursing Homes And The Lutheran Home For The Aging
Number of Words: 2930 / Number of Pages: 11
... and did not have to take a test for a license until it was required
after years of responsible and professional work in the Home for the Aging.
The Lutheran Home for the Aging was founded in 1906 by John C. Koch,
with the motivation and desire to promote residential care for his fellow aging
Lutheran constituents. Along with the supportive interests of other Lutherans,
he purchased approximately eight acres of land. A large house on the property
served as the Home's first building and within a year of its founding, it had
reached a capacity of twenty members. Today the same desire and mo ...
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14 Elements Of A Successful Safety & Health Program
Number of Words: 1126 / Number of Pages: 5
... can be made
responsible and held accountable for meeting standards within their control. We
look at how job performance appraisals can reflect performance in safety and
health, as well as in other areas.
Element 4: Regulatory Compliance Management The Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA), the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) and
state safety and health agencies establish and enforce safety and health
regulations.Other agencies, such as the Environmental Protection Agency, also
issue and enforce regulations relating to safety and health in the United
States. We discuss ...
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Ban Smoking
Number of Words: 671 / Number of Pages: 3
... that may be dangerous such as food, cars, and toys have been recalled
in order for alterations. In the August 1995 issue of consumer reports, twenty-
four products were recalled because of possible dangers to the consumer. These
products included a car that may lose a wheel while in motion, a hair dryer that
poses a fire hazard, and cookies that can cause an allergic reaction. (Consumer
Reports, 500) Yet, the sale of cigarettes, known to be unsafe, has never been
prohibited by the government. Why are cigarettes any different from other
products sold in the US.
Cigarettes are not only harmful to us ...
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Poor Habits And Their Effect On People's Self-Esteem And Self-Worth
Number of Words: 1041 / Number of Pages: 4
... not by
computers. This really effects and influences a person's self esteem and
self worth in the work environment. All of these poor and spoiling habits
people have used cause the non-cherish world as it is.
Most of people have that heavy habit regard to money. People have
to work hard almost daily in order to earn money to survive and to put
aside for retirement. They have to be extremely cautious with their money
in order to be financially independent. It is difficult to keep ahead with
payment commitments such as credit card bills, mortgage, taxes, and so on.
Some people have lousy organizing ...
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Female Genital Mutilation
Number of Words: 909 / Number of Pages: 4
... with these operations such as; hemorrhage, shock, painful scars, keloid formation, clitoral cysts, chronic urinary infection, chronic pelvic infections, painful menstruation, severe pain during intercourse, sterility, kidney stones, sexual dysfunction, depression and complications during childbirth.
Female genital mutilation is usually performed on young girls prior to puberty. It is practiced in more than twenty countries in Africa, in Oman, Southern Yemen, and the United Arab Emirates in the Middle East and in Indonesia and Malaysia in Asia. Statistics have shown that 90% or more of the women in ...
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