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British Medical Journal Depressive Disorder
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Long Term Effects Marijuana As A Medicine
1,341 wordsPeople have been using Marijuana as a medicine for thousands of years, beginning in China, India, and the Middle East. The plant's therapeutic potential became known in Western countries during the nineteenth century. From 1840 to 1900, more than a hundred articles on cannabis appeared in European and American medical journals, recommending it as an appetite stimulant, muscle relaxant, painkiller, sedative, and anti-convulsions. The use of Marijuana should be legalized in Canada for the benefits...
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Reproductive Cloning Artificial Insemination
1,338 wordsArgue a case for or against Clone is the title given to any organisms that are genetically identical. Cloning can be classified as a form of genetic engineering including AID (Artificial Insemination Donor) and AIH (Artificial Insemination Husband) and IVF (In Vitro Fertilisation). AID is the injecting of the semen of a male donor into the womans womb and AIH is the same with the difference that the semen is of the husband These forms of artificial conception have been questioned especially with...
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Stem Cells Therapeutic Cloning
666 wordsIntroduction Politicians, philosophers, lawyers and scientists have been arguing about it for years, but most recent headlines have reignited the simmering debate about therapeutic cloning. Having sent ripples through the scientific and political communities, this issue presents at once radical advantages to medical evolution, and highly controversial moral issues. It seems that the new prospect - using cloned human embryos for medical therapy - will take some time before breaking political and ...
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Decision Making Process 2004 From The World Wide
914 wordsDecision Making Process in Action According to Webster's Dictionary the definition of "decision" is the " 1. a: act or process of deciding b: a determination arrived at after consideration: CONCLUSION. " (web). Organizations and individuals make decisions every day. Decisions are made by flipping a coin, taking a guess, thinking about the thoughts and feelings of others, considering values and beliefs, complying with a mission statement, or picking a solution with more positive than negative con...
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Therapeutic Cloning Reproductive Cloning
729 wordsIn 1997, researchers led by embryologist Ian Wilmut, found a way to do the seemingly impossible they produced Dolly, the first clone of adult mammal. Since then, scientists around the world have been trying to duplicate and advance the work in a variety of species from mice to monkeys. Some have succeeded, but many more have been thwarted in their efforts. A few researchers had even set out to clone human, without success. But very recently, scientists at Advanced Cell Technology, a small biotec...
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Nausea And Vomiting Thousands Of Years
1,501 wordsFor many years the use of marijuana for medical purposes has been an issue of controversial discussion. Many claim that marijuana is a drug that has proven itself to be of no medical value in the treatment of terminal illnesses. Those who feel this way, usually ignore the long history of marijuana's medical uses; a history that goes back thousands of years ago. The drug has aided many people with the coping of terminal diseases. The use of marijuana as a medicinal herb has allowed many with no h...
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Type 2 Diabetes Glucose Tolerance
1,072 words... ; Evidence of Therapeutic/Diagnostic Significance Although the concept of developing a GSK- 3 inhibitor is new to pharmacology, some of the small molecules / drugs are not. There exist several naturally occurring GSK- 3 inhibitors that have been used as treatments for other diseases as well as synthetic compounds that have been identified through the use of high-throughput screens (FIGURE 8). One class of natural inhibitors is the metal ions. The first metal ion discovered as a GSK- 3 inhibi...
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Running Head Journal Article Review
932 wordsRunning head: JOURNAL ARTICLE REVIEW Journal Article Review June 26, 2009 Journal Article Review Abstract Marilyn R. Fitzpatrick and Shahrzad Irannejad in their article Adolescent Readiness for Change and the Working Alliance in Counseling published in Journal of Counseling and Development place emphasis on fact that the counselor-client relationship has significant impact on counseling process with adolescence. The authors discuss the importance of the working alliance and examine how readiness...
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Prostate Cancer Radiation Therapy
1,592 words... radioactive seeds into the prostate (brachytherapy). External beam radiation therapy is given over a course of 6 to 8 weeks through carefully defined portals. Refinements in technique have allowed greater doses of radiation to be administered with a lower risk of morbidity. Three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy is the preferred method of administration in a dose of 75 to 80 Gy. (Greenlee 32). Radiation therapy cannot cure nodal metastases. Disease-specific, 7 -year survival with radiation...
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy For Schizophrenia
1,917 wordsCognitive Behavioral Therapy for Schizophrenia INTRODUCTION Schizophrenia is a persistent and often unrelenting psychiatric disorder. Twenty-five to fifty percent of patients who are compliant with medication still experience significant symptomatology (Weinberger, 1995). Unfortunately, as many as 50 % of patients are not fully compliant with prescribed medications (Hale, 1995). Thus, practitioners treating patients with schizophrenia can become frustrated by the patient's lack of complete respo...
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Clone A Human Cloning Cloning
817 wordsCloning Cloning is one of the most controversial topics in biotechnology and biomedical science today. Cloning is a technology that must be widely researched before any cloning takes place. In turn, governments take responsibility for what laws on cloning they enforce, and how these laws are enforced. The task of this paper is to explain the meaning of cloning and emphasize some important problems related to cloning process. In 1997 the first mammal, a sheep named Dolly was cloned by the group o...
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Therapeutic Cloning Stem Cells
781 wordsIt all started Cloning Cloning It all started as science fiction, something along the lines of pod people. Then this small branch in science fiction grows to be a very popular idea. Then real scientists start believe that it would be possible to clone someone. Finally it happens this small idea of science fiction becomes real with the first clone, Dolly the sheep, but now people are thinking that this might not be such a good idea. Cloning has many great possibilities and shouldn? t be stopped b...
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School Age Children War On Drugs
1,502 wordsThe negative connotations that surround the issue of drug use have been perpetuated by the media and have created a very unhealthy societal fear of drugs. Improper drug use is dangerous, not the chemical compound itself. A major factor in one s drug experience is the users personality. A person with psychological problems who takes LSD will most likely have those problems magnified when under the influence of the drug. However, psychologically healthy people who are knowledgeable and prepared fo...
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Marijuana Laws Norml Marijuana Tax Act
2,231 wordsFor thousands of years the plant cannabis sativa, otherwise known as hemp or marijuana, has been harvested by people and utilized in many different ways. It has been grown to provide food for villages and towns, and used for clothes, rope, and sails on early ships. The Bible was written on hemp paper, as well as the first draft of the US Constitution. Marijuana has been utilized for its medicinal value since four to five hundred BC. Not until a half-century ago did the hemp plant become illegal ...
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Massage Therapy Alternative Therapies
1,174 wordsMillions of people around the world are living with pain that could be prevented with the use of alternative therapies. As a result many of these people use harmful or ineffective drugs and surgeries in an attempt to cure their ailments. With a steady schedule of massage therapy, acupuncture, and healthy foods, people can lead a healthy and invigorating life without drugs or surgery. During the time of the ancient Roman gladiators, massage therapy was used to treat everything from headaches to s...
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Marijuana As Medicine Evidence That Marijuana
992 wordsMarijuana Legalization Of Marijuana Marijuana Marijuana is the most profitable and versatile plant in the world, yet it is illegal. Tobacco and alcohol have no medicinal values, but they are legal. Where as marijuana has thousands of positive uses and it is illegal. Marijuana should be made legal for its many positive therapeutic, environmental, and economic effects. Marijuana can ease the symptoms of many different diseases and disorders. Smoking marijuana can improve symptoms associated with c...
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Christian Model Therapeutic Model Marriage
667 wordsSsimon 1 Scott Simon Sociology 185 Professor Michael November 8, 2000 The Institution of Marriage: A Sociological Perspective According to Webster, marriage is defined as the institution whereby men and women are joined in a special kind of social and legal dependence for the purpose of founding and maintaining a family. That sounds simple enough however, it was not always so. During the seventeenth century arranged marriages were commonplace. The primary purpose of marriage was to bring togethe...
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Medicinal Marijuana Consumer Reports
1,429 wordsMedical Marijuana Marijuana (cannabis) is a mixture of leaves, stems, and flowering tops of the Indian hemp plant Cannabis sativa. [ 4 ] Marijuana is thought by many to be harmful, but it has been proven in fact to be helpful for some people with certain illnesses. [ 4 ] When I first started looking into medical marijuana as my research subject, I was curious to see what people my age actually thought about marijuana. I asked twenty of my peers, ranging in age from seventeen to twenty-two, What ...
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University Of Vienna Part One
1,470 wordsOtto (Rosen field) Rank was born in Vienna, Austria on April 27, 1884. Otto changed his name to Rank in young adulthood. He felt that this symbolized self creation, which is his main ideal in life. Otto's family was not wealthy enough to send him and his brother to college, so Otto became a locksmith while his older brother studied law. He loved music, art, writing poems, reading philosophy and literature. After reading Freud's Interpretation of Dreams, Otto used psychoanalytic ideas in his manu...
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