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Clean Air Act Order To Live
1,339 words... at is a real problem that we must fear because if we keep destroying our planet we will unavoidably begin to destroy ourselves. A new study found the risk of toxics in the air, making a comparison with the health standards established by the 1990 federal Clean Air Act. This act defined 188 chemicals as hazardous air pollutants linked to cancer, birth defects and other health problems. (web). Thousands of air samples have been made during the last three years in Los Angeles for exemple; the f...
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Low Birth Weight Cerebral Palsy
916 wordsThere are many things to expect when a couple has a child. When a couple conceives a child they should know how much commitment is involved. There are the early morning feeds and cleanings, which can frustrate new parents. A person gives up privileges and most of their freedom when the child is born. Also, one of the parents has to stay home or figure out some way to watch and care for their child during the day. The parents make a commitment to the child to support and love that child. A child ...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Urinary Tract
1,058 wordsIn this paper I will tell facts about the harm and danger mothers put their children thru when deciding to drink alcohol, while they are pregnant. I will tell some of the symptoms and characteristics of this bad syndrome. What happens when the child grows up and starts school and then what it is like as an adult. This horrible syndrome is called Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Many pregnant women are not aware of the complications that are involved with pregnancy. The greater majority of young women see...
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Surrogate Motherhood Birth Defects
1,908 wordsMotherhood - Nine Months vs. A Lifetime "You " re about ten meters dilated it's time to push!" You grab hold onto your husband's hand a little tighter. Take a deep breath and the labor process begins. This is a common everyday scenario that happens thousands of times a day in hospitals all over the world. Yet sometimes, women will never be able to go through this process, due to circumstances beyond their control. Imagine never being able to have a child. Imagine infertility. Month after month, ...
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Biological Warfare Agents Women And Children
1,480 wordsThesis: Biological Warfare is morally and inhumanely wrong, It is the wrongful killing of men, women, and children. It should be stopped no matter what the circumstances are. I. Introduction into the bad effects of biological warfare through some examples. a. Example of single affect of biological warfare b. Example of a country using Biological Warfare II. Definition of Biological Warfare a. Biological Warfare Agents i. Micro-Organisms ii. Toxins b. History of biological warfare i. Definition i...
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Agent Orange And Vietnam
1,424 wordsWe must do everything in our power to make the world recognize that our veterans are still paying a high price for fighting the war in Vietnam. Agent Orange is slowly taking the lives of these brave veterans. The government has recognized some diseases but the rules to compensation can be complex. It was in the 1960 's that we were in the process of trying to destroy vegetation and brush in Vietnam, in doing so we proceeded to contaminate one of the largest parts of the environment, Humankind. W...
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Begin To Develop Pituitary Gland
1,294 wordsNovember 16, 1995 Hundreds of thousands of times a year a single-celled zygote, smaller than a grain of sand, transforms into an amazingly complex network of cells, a newborn infant. Through cellular differentiation and growth, this process is completed with precision time and time again, but very rarely a mistake in the 'blueprint' of growth and development does occur. Following is a description of how the pathways of this intricate web are followed and the mistakes which happen when they are n...
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Running Head Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
1,623 wordsRunning head: FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (name of student) (school or institution) Outline Introduction The Research Findings & Critique Data Causes Symptoms Diagnosis Treatment Prognosis Discussion Conclusion Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Although effects of prenatal alcohol use are clearly mentioned even in the Bible, the term fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) has only been known for three decades approximately, after emergence of the first description of a pattern of birth defects foun...
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Third World Countries Arranged Marriages
1,997 wordsArranged Marriages (1) The concept of arranged marriages has been traditionally discussed within a context of people in Asia, Latin America and Africa exploring their cultural uniqueness, because the idea of couple getting married, without even knowing each other, does not make much of a sense to Western psyche. However, one does not have to be a genius to realize that the ever-increased number of arranged marriages take place in Western countries as we speak, despite the fact that prevailing pu...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Mental Retardation
608 wordsfetal alcohol syndrome The 1990 s is witnessing the significant impact alcohol-related birth defects are having on our society. These birth defects are caused by maternal use of alcohol during pregnancy which are irreversible, yet preventable. The most severe outcome, fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), to the less easily diagnosed fetal alcohol effects (FAE). The incidence of FAS is estimated at. 33 per 1, 000 live births. The estimated incidence of FAE is three times that of FAS. With an annual cost...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Low Birth Weight
2,039 wordsFetal Alcohol Syndrome Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is an increasing problem in our world today. At least 5, 000 infants are born each year with FAS, or about one out of every 750 live births, which is an alarming number. In the United States there has been a significant increase in the rate of infants born with FAS form 1 per 10, 000 births in 1979 to 6. 7 per 10, 000 in 1993 (Chang, Wilkins-Haug, Berman, Goetz 1). In a report, Substance Abuse and the American Woman, sent out by the Center on Addicti...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Fetal Alcohol Effects
298 wordsIt can take as little as one ounce of alcohol for a child to suffer from Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. This is the leading cause of mental retardation in the Western World. It is now widely accepted by numerical authorities and researchers that women who drink during pregnancy can adversely affect the development of their unborn infant. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome can be traced back as early as Aristotle's Problemata when he said, foolish, drunken, or hare-brain women for the most part bring forth children...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Urinary Tract
1,742 wordsMany pregnant women are not aware of the complications that are involved with pregnancy. The greater majority of young women see pregnancy as a way of bringing a life into the world but do not use precaution in their dietary habits to prevent the destruction or inhibition of such a life. Most pregnant women continue on their drinking and drug abuse binge right throughout their pregnancy. They do not think ahead to the inexplicable damage that it could do to their fetus. What they do not know is ...
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Folic Acid Neural Tube
640 wordsFOLIC ACID Folic acid is the most common term for water-soluble B-vitamin that can be found naturally as well as in vitamin pills. Found naturally, folic acid is actually referred to as folate, while folic acid refers to the synthetic form of the vitamin. (For reasons of simplification, this paper will use the two terms interchangeably. ) The functions of folic acid in our diet are mostly for prevention. Probably the most commonly known function of folic acid is in the prevention of neural tube ...
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Handmaid Tale Today Society
2,753 wordsSome critics say that The Handmaid? s Tale is a pure Science Fiction with little or no relevance to the actual society. Margaret Atwood wanted to show a way of how far contemporary errors lead to. Actually she took facts from today (the book was written in 1986), and imagine how could become society if people do not do anything to arrange life? s quality. ? Moving, vivid and terrifying, I only hope it? s not prophetic? , as Conor Cruise O? Brien, from The Listener. This fear is almost easy to un...
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Long Term Effects Legalization Of Marijuana
893 wordsMarijuana, a drug that has been studied for many decades, provides for a very controversial argument. Many people in society are aware of the harmful and long-term effects of marijuana, and therefore are strongly opposed to such a drug. However, there exists another array of opinions of which are focused heavily on the benefits of marijuana in the medical industry, as well as the pleasurable benefits that marijuana may bring to many individuals. Though there exists some evidence that marijuana c...
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Birth Defects Blood Pressure
687 wordsMarfan Syndrome is an autosomal dominant disorder, affecting approximately one in ten-thousand people. Its affects both males and females equally, and is equally prevalent in all races. About one in four affected individuals are the result of new mutations, however in most cases the syndrome is inherited from one parent with the disorder. In 1991 the cause of Marfan Syndrome was traced to a defective gene on chromosome 15. This gene, with normal functioning, tells the body to produce fibrilla, a...
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Animal Testing Birth Defects
400 wordsArgument Essay Where would we be Without Animal Testing? Is the use of animals in research justified? Should animal experimentation be permitted? Should these animals be liberated? A logical person would say the benefits justify the research. Without animal testing, products would be based on theory. No one would want to use something, which may damage eyes, be poisonous, cancerous, and cause birth defects. Animals used in testing are not from the endangered species list; also many of the types ...
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Sickle Cell Anemia Genetic Disorders
1,287 wordsPregnancy: Risks, Complications And Contraceptive Essay, Pregnancy: Risks, Complications And Contraceptive PREGNANCY: RISKS, COMPLICATIONS AND CONTRACEPTIVES Part I. Risks and Complications to the woman and child during pregnancy a. Introduction There are many risks that a woman (and the child) undertake before, during adapter pregnancy. These are due to a varied number of effects such as exposure to temperature extremes (very hot or very cold environments), radiation (from x-rays and dental ins...
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Dna Strands Birth Defects
690 wordsRadioactivity And Its Effects, (The Chernobyl Radioactivity And Its Effects, (The Chernobyl Incident). RADIOACTIVITY AND ITS EFFECTS, (THE CHERNOBYL INCIDENT). Some nuclei are radioactive, that is they spontaneously emit small particles, and high energy electromagnetic radiation, in doing so they form more stable nuclei. There are three different kinds of radiation, alpha, beta, and gamma. Quantitative studies have shown that alpha and beta are high energy particles, and gamma rays are very shor...
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