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Law Abiding Citizens Gun Control Laws
1,039 wordsGuns dont kill people, people kill people. It has been said millions of times by too many people to quote. For almost as long as guns have been around gun control has been a major issue throughout the world. As we look back on the past we find that gun control doesnt really help reduce crime. Another down side of gun control is that if the government takes away the right to own weapons then they will start to think they can take other rights away. With every new anti gun law passed the crime rat...
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Terminally Ill Patients Life Sustaining Treatment
1,369 wordsEuthanasia, the act of relieving the prolonged pain and suffering of terminally ill patients by inducing death, has been the subject of controversy for sometime. Dying with dignity, the kind of end we hope for ourselves as well as others, has in some ways become more difficult. With the advancements in medicine having leaped forward within the last 20 years, prolonging life by means of technology has become common place in the medical community. These life-sustaining advances in treatments have ...
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Cruel And Unusual University Of Pennsylvania
1,089 wordsMany humans use animals for testing each year. Animal testing is when the animals are put through something or injected to see how they react to what medical research they have been used for. There are three very important reasons why animals should not be used for testing harmful or dangerous materials. One of these is that testing and its use is trivial in the cosmetic industry. The second reason is that animals have rights and animals can feel pleasure and pain just as humans do. The third re...
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Central Nervous System Side Effects
1,454 wordsTwenty-five years ago, the great Athenian doctor Hippocrates believed that balance is health and that imbalance is the cause of all illness and pain. For more than three hundred years, this concept has been in disfavour. Now, clinical experiences with Phen/Fen suggest that Hippocrates was right. While both phentermine and fenfluramine have been available since the mid-seventies, patients were generally reluctant to use them because of the always present fear of addiction. During many instances w...
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Behaviour Modification Weight Loss
1,614 words... ically similar compounds has resulted in fatal poisoning, usually terminating in convulsions and coma. Management of acute Phentermine (resin) intoxication is largely symptomatic and includes lavage and sedation with a barbiturate. Experience with hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis is inadequate to permit recommendation in this regard. Intravenous phentramine (Regitine) has been suggested on pharmacologic grounds for possible acute, severe hypertension, if this complicates over dosage. DOSA...
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100 000 People Genetic Diseases
1,823 words"We [the human race]|do not have much time to prove that we are not the product of a lethal mutation" Science 263: 181, 1994 "I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race. " Thomas Love Peacock The genetic catastrophe consists of four major genetic "epidemics" - those of cancer, vascular disease, musculoskeletal disease, and behavioral disease. There are identified approximately 250 common genetic diseases, and approximately 7, 000 "rare" genetic diseases. T...
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Death With Dignity State Of Oregon
1,028 wordsThe practice of euthanasia has posed a question of morality and ethicality which has been a major topic of controversy for centuries. It raises the issue of whether a terminally ill person should suffer torturing and lingering pain before death, or if they should be given the choice of peaceful and painless death. The euthanasia controversy is part of a larger issue concerning the right to die and staunch defenders of personal liberty argue that all of us are morally entitled to end our lives wh...
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Information Symptoms And Treatment Of Schizophrenia
1,581 words... patient to function more effectively and appropriately. Antipsychotic drugs are the best treatment now available, but they do not cure schizophrenia or ensure that there will be no further psychotic episodes. The choice and dosage of medication can be made only by a qualified physician who is well trained in the medical treatment of mental disorders. The dosage of medication is individualized for each patient, since people may vary a great deal in the amount of drug needed to reduce symptoms...
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Problems And Treatment Of Peptic Ulcer Disease
1,551 words... on, and heartburn. Emergency Symptoms Gastrointestinal bleeding is the most serious complication of peptic ulcers. The bleeding is a result of an ulcer eroding into a blood vessel of the stomach or small intestine. The signs of bleeding are vomiting bright red blood, or a bowel movement consisting of bloody, or tarry, black stool. If the hemorrhage is very severe, weakness, shock, and loss of consciousness may occur. Obstruction of the digestive tract is another emergency complication of pep...
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York N Y Play An Important Role
1,781 words... like result when the test animals are given drugs which selectively bind to sigma and / or dopamine reuptake sites (Svennson, 1995). Second, 'psychotomimetic effects similar to those induced by PCP can be induced by ketamine, a related arylcyclohexamine derivative' (Sevvenson, 1995). This is a particulary strong point of evidence, especially when coupled with the following point: A dosage of ketamine ten times that of PCP is required in order to induce the same effect (Halberstad, 1995). Thi...
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Drug Abuse Medical Examiner
1,029 wordsThe number of various diseases, that were impossible or hard to cure just several years ago, had substantially decreased due to the scientific and technological advance. The rapid development of medicine and especially of the pharmaceutical industry had resulted in a creation of a variety of new and sophisticated drugs. With every year, they become more strong and effective than their predecessors. Thousands of people with different illnesses depend on a certain kind of medical preparation, whic...
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X Ray Nobel Prize
1,955 wordsBest Candidate Introduction There has been a trend within recent years to foster the use of digital technologies in our life. Medicine is no exception to the rule, as it continues to use new generation of equipment, which uses the state-of-the-art digital technologies aimed to facilitate obtaining and processing data. This trend develops dynamically, and digital x-ray diagnostics becomes the most technologically advanced direction in the medicine. The paper explores the history of x-ray, the his...
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Physician Assisted Suicide Doctor Assisted Suicide
2,720 wordsIn recent years, Euthanasia has become a very heated debate. It is a Greek word that means " easy death" but the controversy surrounding it is just the opposite. Whether the issue is refusing prolonged life mechanically, assisting suicide, or active euthanasia, we eventually confront our society fears toward death itself. Above others, our culture breeds fear and dread of aging and dying. It is not easy for most of the western world to see death as an inevitable part of life. However, ...
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American Medical Association Androgenic Steroids
1,520 wordsWhat are steroids? Steroids are synthetic chemicals that mimic the hormones produced by the body. Hormones control bodily functions and are separated into various classifications such as adrenal, cortical, cardiac, bile salts, vitamins, and sex hormones. Anabolic steroids that build muscle tissue are classified as sex hormones and they stimulate the action of the male sex hormone testosterone. When testosterone is released at the appropriate time it has the natural effects of creating body size,...
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Dear Diary P 103
2,841 wordsA Diary of Despair A Chronicle of Heroin Abuse As Seen through the Eyes Of a Mother Jennifer Bernstein Drug Use and Abuse Professor San tucci 4 / 26 / 99 Dear Diary, I think back, and I smile at the little girl I used to have, all pigtails and lace. I can still hear her laughter echoing through the hallways of our home; see her swinging on the swing set in our backyard, her long curly blonde hair, full of pink ribbons, sailing behind her like a pool of melted gold. When the sun hit her face, she...
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Side Effects Include Bodily Harm
1,586 wordsThe Ghb Grievous Bodily Harm The room is spinning, the music is as loud as it can get and people are dancing all night long. Your heart is pumping, and you feel like you re flying. This is the happiest you ve been in a long time. You re so glad you came to the Rave and happy that your friends made you try GHB until you start to come down. You start with Minor seizures and become so tired you can t stand up anymore. You feel nauseated, you can t breathe correctly, you anxiety level is at it s hig...
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Long Lasting Effects Snyder 1985 P
1,909 wordsIn this report I will show you my views on Marijuana, if it should be legal, for medical and / or recreational purposes. Marijuana has many names: Dope, Marihuana, Ganja, Pot Mary Jane, Cannabis Sativa (Scientific) to name a few. Marijuana originated in the middle east (Taiwan, Korea). China plays an important part in Marijuana's history. Hoatho, the first chinese physician to use Cannabis for medical purposes as a painkiller and anesthetic for surgery. In the Ninth Century B. C. , it was used a...
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World War Ii Methods Of Execution
2,101 wordsMethods of Execution One mans taking of another's life is generally seen as an unforgivable act which is punishable with death. When this is done as punishment however, it is seen as an honorary deed by removing this criminal from the world and making it a much safer place to live. With executions in mind, it is incredible what ingenious methods can be thought of by the human brain and the fact that the idea is centered around the murdering of one man does not even change how prodigious these in...
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Coronary Heart Disease Clinical Trials
987 wordsZOCOR has been available in the United States since 1992, and ZOCOR has been prescribed for more than 6 million patients worldwide. Background A team of doctors and scientists designed a large-scale, long-term study to determine whether ZOCOR (simvastatin), a cholesterol-lowering medicine, as an addition to diet, could help heart disease patients with high cholesterol live longer and avoid heart attacks. The study took about 6 years and involved 4, 444 patients with coronary heart disease and hi...
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Schedule Ii Drug United States Government
1,864 wordsEnglish 3 Block G April 18, 2001 ii Outline Thesis: The use of marijuana for medicinal purposes should be legalized by the United States government due to marijuana s numerous medicinal uses, it s relative safety as a medication, and the many possible threats of continued prohibition. I. Introduction A. Quote: Federal authorities should rescind their prohibition of the medical use of marijuana for seriously ill patients and allow physicians to decide which patients to treat. The government shoul...
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