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Presidential Debate Racial Profiling
1,167 wordsRepublican Dick Cheney and Democrat Joseph Lieberman confronted each other Thursday night in their only vice presidential debate, disagreeing pointedly but politely over taxes, energy and military readiness The vice presidential debate took place on October 06, 2000 at at Centre College in Danville, Ky. The moderator is Bernad Shaw. They covered the positions discussed in the presidential debate and introduced new ones as well the rights of homosexuals, racial profiling and so on but its quite c...
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Marijuana Laws Norml Reform Of Marijuana Laws
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Genetic Engineering In Medicine
888 wordsGenetic engineering and gene therapy are an essential part in today's medicine. They have led to the discovery of many new treatments for "untreatable" diseases. They have provided cost efficient solutions that require much less procedure and can be permanent rather than temporary. The solutions are also more effective then before and through the use of transgenic plants and animals, can be easily produced. Gene knowledge has sparked interest and continues to supply discoveries of new applicatio...
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Fast Food Restaurants Lose Weight
1,330 wordsObesity Introduction In America, being fat and having it be acknowledged by others, it is very shameful. Its like getting caught having sex in your neighbors swimming pool by your parents. Or getting caught by security trying to steal a bra from K-mart when youre nine. Its like living your worst nightmare. Fatso Huge theres nothing more embarrassing then being called a name which is meant to be an insult which is true about you. 61 % of Americans are overweight. About 30 % of those percentages a...
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Adverse Reactions Chicken Pox
1,032 wordsIn 1996 a mother took her six-month-old son, Jonah, to the doctor to get his DPT vaccination. Two days later, Jonah came down with an ear infection. Bobbie took him into the doctor and the child was given a prescription of amoxicillin. The ear infection soon healed and all went well for about two months when the infection returned. Bobbie again took Jonah to the physician where he, this time, gave the boy a stronger form of amoxicillin. Again the infection soon diminished. About four months late...
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Taking Into Consideration Written Assignment 4 Caffeine
346 wordsRunning head: WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 4 Written Assignment 4 August 29, 2009 Written Assignment 4 Question 1 Caffeine Caffeinism is very dangerous, as caffeine is a common psychoactive stimulant that is consumed in large quantities by society. The risks associated with caffeine consumption are quite serious: caffeine causes addiction as the body becomes increasingly dependent on high dosages of caffeine; it increases the feeling of anxiety, can lead to a number of stomach discomforts, irritability, s...
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Birth Control Pills Food And Drug Administration
703 wordsIn December 2003, the Food and Drug Administration of the USA has recommended the pill, also known as "morning-after" contraception pill, be available for customers over the counter. The pill must be taken during 72 hours of unprotected sex; it includes a high dose of the hormone progestin. So-called "morning-after pills" have been discovered and known among medical experts for last two decades. But a lot of women in the United States remained unaware and misinformed about their use. The FDA sti...
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Second Hand Smoke Los Angeles Times
1,386 wordsThis year alone cigarettes will kill over 420, 000 Americans, and many more will suffer from cancers, and circulatory and respiratory system diseases. These horrible illnesses were known to originate from cigarettes for years. Recently nicotine, the main chemical additive in cigarettes, was declared addictive by the Food and Drug Administration. This explains why smokers continue to use cigarettes even though smokers are aware of the constantly warned about health dangers in cigarettes. Although...
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Fifty Five Years Ago
580 wordsFifty-five Effects Of Flouride Flouride Fifty-five years ago they told us that in order to have healthy teeth, we needed to have one part fluoride in each million parts of water. Thats the same as one milligram of fluoride per liter about one-quarter milligram per 8 -ounce cup. There is ample evidence that fluoride is harmful to health: that is why it has been banned or discontinued in 21 European countries, Japan and Hawaii. A major report ordered by Congress in January 1990 from the U. S. gove...
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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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Unborn Child Nervous System
343 wordsSynopsis # 1 BIO 131 A. Summary: The Food and Drug Administration is announcing to pregnant women that eating certain kinds of fish may be harmful to their unborn child. These fish include shark, swordfish, king mackerel and tile fish. These fish contain high levels of a form of mercury called methyl mercury. Methyl mercury can damage an unborn babys nervous system. The FDA suggests that any pregnant woman, or women of childbearing age, nursing mothers, and young children stay away from these fi...
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Date Rape Drug Bodily Harm
1,332 wordsGamma Hydroxy Butyrate (GHB) Essay written by GHB, or Gamma-Hydroxy Butyric Acid is an intoxicating chemical with medical, recreational, and potentially entheogenic uses. It is a normal component of mammalian metabolism. It is naturally found in every cell in the human body and is most properly considered a nutrient. It is believed to be a neurotransmitter, although it is still unknown as to whether it exhibits all of the properties required to be considered one. GHB was first synthesized about ...
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Person To Person Muscle Relaxation
1,283 wordsR ape and sexual assault are becoming more of a problem in American society every year. Most of these rape cases involve the use of substances to impair reason, making an easier victim. The availability of these drugs has increased its popularity and therefore directly has increased the number of incidents. With the advancement of science, synthetically produced drugs are replacing alcohol, which has for centuries been the dominant date rape drug. One of those substances is gamma-hydroxy butyrat...
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Stop Smoking Start Smoking
417 wordsHelp Put Out the Butt in Teen Smoking You could probably walk around your neighborhood and see groups of teenagers smoking. In fact, there 6, 000 teens that start smoking everyday and 3, 000 of them will make the choice to continue smoking. Throughout this essay, I will give you facts on why it is smart to either stop smoking now or never start. You probably ask yourself, Why do teens smoke? There are many explanations to that question. Many teens say they started because of peer pressure or oth...
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Birth Control Pills Fallopian Tubes
794 wordsWhen the FDA approved the Pill for marketing in 1960, it changed America forever. The pill was released without adequate testing. Within two years, 1. 2 Americans were using it and by 1973 that number had risen to 10 million. In 1969 the book The Doctors Case against the Pill by Barbara Seaman showed people the dangers. By the end of the 70 s, the FDA required physicians and pharmacists to hand out sheets on possible negative effect and complications (Kalb 20 - 36). The pills contain two hormone...
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Marijuana For Medical Medical Use Of Marijuana
1,122 wordsIn the late 1970 s, Susan Nelson watched her husband, Don, vomit constantly. Don was undergoing chemotherapy to treat his testicular cancer. The body rejects the drugs used in chemotherapy by means of vomiting. The constant vomiting caused Don further tissue damage than he already had. In 1989, Susan discovered she had lymphoma. Susan also went under chemotherapy, but during her whole treatment she only vomited once. Why do you think this is? She took matters into her own hands: she fired up a j...
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Legalization Of Marijuana Reform Of Marijuana Laws
1,396 wordsThe Legalization of Marijuana Marijuana is a drug that comes from a variety of common hemp known as cannabis indica. The much more potent hashish is also derived from the plant cannabis indica. What is sold on the street as marijuana, hemp, weed, pot, or bud are the dried leaves and the flowering tops of the plant. The primary psychoactive component in marijuana is the trans-delta-tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC. By 1937, marijuana had become illegal in 46 states. Penalties for its use were similar...
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Smoking Marijuana Medical Marijuana
815 wordsMarijuana should be legalized in the United States for medical uses because it has been found to be useful in the treatment of many illnesses, as well as having many medical benefits. Marijuana is from the flower of the ganja plant; it is a mild, non-addictive drug with hallucinogenic properties. The are FDA recognizes and has provided permits for 8 medical marijuana patients in the United States. (1) Many individual states have their own provisions for medical use of marijuana and it is also re...
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British Medical Journal People Who Suffer
1,254 wordsSchizophrenia is a severe mental disease that effects thousands of Americans, or only one percent of the population. Schizophrenia is defined as a disorder characterized by a range of cognitive and emotional dysfunction involving disturbances in content of thought, perceptions, language and communication skills, fluency of thought and speech, attention span, and interpersonal functioning. Schizophrenia was not always known as this. In the late 1800 s a French physician by the name of Benedict Mo...
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Milligrams Of Testosterone Side Effects Steroids
804 wordsShould steroids be Steroids Steroids Should steroids be legal? Well lets start of with what are steroids? Steroids are classified in the encyclopedia as any of class of lipids having a molecular structure based on four joined carbon rings with hydrogen molecules attached. (encylopedia. com) Anabolic steroids or more precisely, anabolic / androgenic steroids belong to a group known as erogenic, or so-called performance-enhancing, drugs. Some medical types are synthetic derivatives of testosterone...
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