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Coronary Artery Disease Coronary Arteries
2,588 words... e-age, a high cholesterol level can be expected. It has been proven that about the only thing smoking do is shorten a person's life. Despite all the warnings by the surgeon general, people still manage to find an excuse to quit smoking. Cigarette smoke contains carbon monoxide, radioactive polonium, nicotine, arsenious oxide, benzo pyrene, and levels of radon and molybdenum that are TWENTY times the allowable limit for ambient factory air. The two agents that have the most significant effect...
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Point In Time Ginkgo Biloba
1,475 wordsThe blitz is on for ginkgo and other herbal products, but are they panaceas or placebos? Recently, everywhere you turn, you see or hear about new herbal remedies used for improving ones memory and concentration. One more frequently discussed is Ginkgo Biloba. It is an herbal substance that offers hope for improving memory, concentration and brain functions. Ginkgo Biloba is a derivative of a leafy ornamental tree that originated in eastern China. It is said to increase blood flow to the brain, i...
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Hours Of Sleep Sleeping Pills
1,017 wordsInsomnia is the perception or complaint of inadequate or poor-quality sleep because of one or more of the following: Waking up frequently during the night with difficulty returning to sleep Insomnia is not defined by the number of hours of sleep a person gets or how long it takes to fall asleep. Individuals vary normally in their need for, and their satisfaction with, sleep. Insomnia may cause problems during the day, such as tiredness, a lack of energy, difficulty concentrating, and irritabilit...
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Department Of Health Older Person
1,596 words... in the chromosomes, which are complexes of DNA and protein. At the end of the chromosomes there are regions of DNA that do not code for any of our characteristics but which appear to protect the chromosome. (Amador, 2000). As cells age, these regions of DNA, known as telomeres, become shorter. It is not known whether this is a cause or an effect of ageing. However, in cancer cells the length of the telomeres remains constant and they have high levels of an enzyme called telomerase, which rep...
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Gross National Product Goods And Services
2,245 wordsEconomics Presidents, cabinet members, congressmen, senators, TV pundits, editorial writers, leaders of business and labor, and taxpayers talk about the American economy. That is natural and good. Much of our lives center on the economy. A great deal of this talk, though, proceeds in ignorance of basic facts about the American economy or, what is worse, makes assumptions about it that are not so, or at least are highly doubtful. By basic facts I mean those that refer to the condition of the coun...
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The Danger Of Genetically Engineered Plants
1,899 wordsThe Danger of Genetically Engineered Plants Genetically modified crops are appearing on the farms of the United States more and more everyday, even though consumers may not know it. However, the good news is that these crops are planted because of their benefits to people. For example, according to the American Medical Association (AMA), More than 40 transgenic crop varieties have been cleared through the federal review process with enhanced agronomic and / or nutritional characteristics or one ...
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Moment Of Conception Second Trimester
1,463 wordsDuring the past quarter century, abortion has joined race and war as one of the most debatable subject of controversy in the United States. It discusses human interaction where ethics, emotions and law come together. Abortion poses a moral, social and medical dilemma that faces many individuals to create a emotional and violent atmosphere. There are many points of view toward abortion but the only two fine distinctions are pro-choice and pro-life. A pro-choicer would feel that the decision to ab...
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Human Brain Side Effects
475 wordsBrain Transplant Medical technology has seemed to advance enough so that doctors are able to perform brain transplants. So far this procedure has only been successfully performed on animals, and now doctors hope to perform this procedure on humans. I believe brain transplants should not be performed at all, and especially not on humans because of the numerous problems and side effects that could arise. Even though brain transplants can be successfully performed on animals, this does not mean tha...
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Outweigh The Risks Anabolic Steroids
1,210 wordsSteroids and Their Affects On The Human Body Drugs have been used in sports almost as long as sports themselves have been around. The ancient Incas discovered that the ashes from burned leaves of the Coca tree gave the people great stores of energy, and made sleep unnecessary for hours or even days, it was later discovered to be the stimulant cocaine. They would take it before long hunts, battles, and even found it useful in ancient sport competitions. It wasnt until 1886 that the first drug-rel...
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Selective Serotonin Antidepressant Medications
563 wordsGenerally, depression is regarded as an illness due to an imbalance of serotonin in the brain. When seen as such, depression can no longer be considered a? mental illness, ? but instead must be categorized with physical illnesses that also have causes, symptoms, and remedies. There are also various types of depression, including Dysthymia, Seasonal Affective Disorder or SAD, and Bipolar disorder, which is also called manic depression 1. These types all differ slightly in the severity of their sy...
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Human Cloning Foundation Cystic Fibrosis
2,611 wordsWhen one thinks of cloning, what comes to mind? Movies such as? Multiplicity? can give the layperson a much-distorted image of cloning. In this particular movie, actor Michael Keaton plays a father who cannot handle his crazily busy lifestyle. In an effort to be the perfect father, husband and employee, he has himself cloned easily at a nearby medical center. The three clones each have their own personality: one is sarcastic and bitter, one is sweet and sensitive and one is a half-wit but all ar...
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Performance Enhancing Drugs International Olympic Committee
2,300 wordsThe Use of Performance-Enhancing Drugs in the Olympic Games Since the original Olympic Games in ancient Greece, athletes have struggled to find a way to gain the competitive edge. Early rituals included consuming wine and brandy before an event, eating potent mushrooms, and even concocting magic potions thought to give the athlete improved performance ability (Corelli 1). It is well known that modern Olympic athletes have been using performance-enhancing drugs for decades, and that some countrie...
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Types Of Cancer Cancerous Cells
846 wordsOne Conquering Cancer Conquering Cancer One of the first scientists to prove that cancer is genetic was Biologist, Dr. Weinburg. In Weinburg s experiment he took cancerous cells from rats brains and mixed their DNA with that of normal cells. The result was that the cells became cancerous, proving that cancer is in genes. In recent years our knowledge about cancer and what causes it has greatly increased. We now know that vital genes mutating cause cancer. Just one mutated nucleotide out of 15, 0...
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Rest Of The World Surgical Procedure
1,271 wordsThrow around words such as boxer and ear cropping and people will probably figure you re referring to the sport know as boxing. Specifically to a notorious world championship bout in which one boxer did indeed crop the ear of another. Our discussion is here, though, it focuses on an entirely different species of boxers, and an entirely different style of ear cropping. The boxer, of course is the boxer dog. A breed that by custom and by standards typically undergoes a surgical procedure designed ...
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Small Stream Using Sticks Stream Using Sticks Water
1,256 wordsMany people have already dammed a small stream using sticks and mud by Dam building essay on dam building dam levy's resistor rivers water control ecology storage environment construction Many people have already dammed a small stream using sticks and mud by the time they become adults. Humans have used dams since early civilization, because four-thousand years ago they became aware that floods and droughts affected their well-being and so they began to build dams to protect themselves from thes...
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U S Department Health Care Costs
2,865 wordsThe Decriminalization of Steroids Everyone has a view on steroids whether or not it is shaped by mass media, schools, or peers. Not many people have a realistic idea of what steroids really are and what they do. I spent a few hours in various diet and fitness related chat rooms on the net while doing this paper and found out that the common stereotype is that all steroids are harmful and produce breasts. Some people believe supplements such as creatine and weight gain powder are steroids, which ...
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Manic Depressive Illness American Psychological Association
2,704 wordsAccording to the American Psychological Association over 17 million Americans have depression (Par. 1). Depression is triggered by many things; whatever the trigger, it is much more than a simple case of the blues. Depression is a serious illness that can take a terrible toll on victims and families if left untreated. With proper treatment the disease can be minimized or even eliminated. Everyone feels sad or blue sometimes. But when an upsetting event occurs, Feelings of sorrow usually subside ...
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Suffer From Depression
1,870 wordsA symptom of the bad times is that you think that they will never abate. You convince yourself that you are doomed forever to a state of half-life. You awake to a sighing gloom and an inordinate effort of will is required to leave your bed. You know that you should get up to arrest the feeling of despair, but the listlessness which is a characteristic of the condition holds you there, gazing upwards in static stare, musing over the endlessness of the day ahead. Everything is an effort and is car...
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Effects Of The Drug Heroin Addicts
1,858 wordsThe use Heroin HEROIN The use of heroin continues to climb in most areas. The number of varieties and sources of heroin available, combined with an increased domestic demand make the heroin market the fastest growing drug market reported. While there are indications of increased use of heroin among younger, suburban users, it is the cadre of older, inner-city heroin users that drive the heroin market (DEA 1996). Almost all areas report that the majority of heroin users are older drug users (over...
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