Injustice Of Abortion
.... On the other hand, many Americans whole heartedly support the practice of choosing to kill a baby so that the parent can avoid conflicts when the baby is born. This seems like a very contradictory and unnecessary practice.
One major problem with the injustice of abortion is the fact that people actually support it. With almost every other major injustice in America, including domestic violence, discrimination, sexual harassment, and others, the vast majority are strongly opposed to its existence. How .....
|
|
Should Abortion Be Supported?
.... clinics in our country. However, some special cases might still existed. For instance, a fetus may have a high chance of being born mentally ill, with a handicap, blind, or AIDS. In such cases, according to utilitarianism by which to produce the greatest happiness to the greatest number, then people should have the right to have abortion because it will cause both emotional and economical burden to the parents. Because of the new invention and technology, we are able to find out the worse fetus existi .....
|
|
Solutions To The Abortion Issue
.... next leader would lead America to respect all levels of life, including the life of the unborn”(Thomas). This is a statement that the majority of the population would agree with. The thing now is that we need to get on into office that is able to pass laws making it more difficult for one to have an abortion done. In the past George W. Bush has passed laws in Texas making it to where a minor has to have the permission of a parent to have this procedure done. This was a step to making abortion harder to h .....
|
|
The Issue Of HIV And AIDS
.... out literature and condoms to adults, but are they really going to listen? As a community, we can encourage HIV/AIDS testing, but will it be taken advantage of? Since these are adults being familiarized with HIV/AIDS, how to contract it, the consequences, and the raw statistics, they will probably disregard all of the information. Education on the issue of HIV/AIDS obviously needs to begin at an earlier age.
Since this is such a controversial issue, the age at which education should begin is debata .....
|
|
Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy
.... substances (Feldman 148). The term “syndrome” was named after Karl Friedrich Freihess Von Munchausen, an 18th century figure known for telling extremely tall tales of his adventures. In 1977 an English pediatrician by the name of Meadow first described “Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy,” when he discovered that the mothers of his epileptic patients were inducing their children’s seizures. Due to the extremity of the abuse, nine percent of Munchausen victims die at the hands of their perpetrator, which is .....
|
|
Depression: A Deadly Disease
.... the year, 17.6 million American adults suffer from a depressive illness. That is 10% of the population. (Pfizer, Dealing) Depression is a whole-body illness, including mind, mood, body, and thoughts. It effects everything from the way you sleep to the way you feel about yourself. It effects how you react and how you see things. Depressive illnesses often interfere with normal functioning and cause pain and suffering not only to those who have the disorder but also to the ones who care about them. Depress .....
|
|
Cystic Fibrosis
.... including: salty tasting skin, constant coughing, large amounts of mucus, trouble gaining weight, frequent greasy, foul smelling bowel, growths in the nose (nasal polyps) and clubbed or enlarged fingertips and toe tips is another symptom. Now there are many tests that can be done to find out if a person has CF.
Doctors can now do genetic testing for CF, but about 10 years ago they couldn't. In 1989, the location where the of the defective gene on chromosome number 7 is was discovered by Francis S. Colli .....
|
|
AIDS: Risk Factors / Modes Of Transmission / W. Africa
.... Belt” in central, southern, and eastern Africa” (Bethel, 138).
First, by mentioning the fact that the Third World contains three fourths of the Earth’s population, and combining that fact with that of those worlds having an overall lesser knowledge upon transmission, prevention, and AIDS in general, it is not surprising that these countries populations are greatly impacted by mortality. “Africa, with about 12% of the world’s population, is now reporting about 25% of the world’s AIDS cases. It is est .....
|
|
The Digestive System
.... also contains other organs that help you break up food like you teeth, your tongue, liver and your pancreas.
The Esophagus is your tube that your food goes down into the stomach. If we didn't have an esophagus we probley wouldn't be alive. Your stomach is your main organ because it is the thing that makes your food into smaller units and you would die if you didn't have a stomach. Enzyme is a kind of protein that speeds up chemical reactions in the body. If we didn't have enzyme everybody would be walk .....
|
|
Genetics And Evolution: Cystic Fibrosis And Down Syndrome
.... about once in every 2500 births. If both parents carry the gene responsible for the disease, they have a one-in-four chance of having an affected child. In 1989, the gene responsible for cystic fibrosis was identified on chromosome 7 (out of 23 chromosomes). Since that time more than 200 different mutations in the cystic fibrosis gene have been described, and tests have been developed to detect the most common alterations. These tests can identify unaffected carriers of the disorder. Sickle-Cell Anemi .....
|
|
Schizophrenia
.... thoughts aloud. There are also two other forms of auditory hallucinations, in one the victim will hear two voices arguing, in the other a voice will be heard commenting the actions of the person. Schizophrenics may also suffer from the feeling that their actions are being controlled by an external force, or the delusion that certain commonplace remarks have a secret meaning for themselves (Torrey, 1983).
From these symptoms, schizophrenia is divided into four sub-types determined by which symp .....
|
|
HIV/AIDS Seminar
.... it is easy to hand out literature and condoms to adults, but are they really going to listen? As a community, we can encourage HIV/AIDS testing, but will it be taken advantage of? Since these are adults being familiarized with HIV/AIDS, how to contract it, the consequences, and the raw statistics, they will probably disregard all of the information. Education on the issue of HIV/AIDS obviously needs to begin at an earlier age.
Since this is such a controversial issue, the age at which education shou .....
|
|
Homosexuality And The Healthcare Profession
.... a volunteer for a local gay/lesbian helpline, as well as his observations within his professional work-place, namely, an Intensive Care Unit.
A phobia is defined by Collins (1993) as, "an irrational and morbid condition; an intense and unreasoning fear or dislike." From this, homophobia can be defined as, "a pattern of attitudes - a revulsion towards homosexuals and often the desire to inflict punishment, mental or physical, as retribution" (Weinberg 1972).
According to Collins (1993) an attitude is a, .....
|
|
Preventing Injuries
.... weight to make sure the exercises they are going to begin are appropriate for their fitness level.
Once a person is cleared to exercise, they should always remember to stretch and warm up before doing the activity. Like any automobile, a person also needs to warm up their body before being used. One of the best ways to do this is to just do a light jog and then stretch. This way the muscles are warmed up a little bit and the person is not stretching cold muscles which could cause an injury. Once they .....
|
|
Bronchial Asthma
.... began to understand the causes and triggers of asthma, linking the disease to autosomal dominant genes on the chromosomes 5,6, 11, 12 and 14, but especially number 5. (Figure 1)
Many different triggers are associated with asthma, most commonly when airborne irritants such as pet dander, cigarette smoke, plant pollen and mold spores (and even fecal matter from dust mites and cockroaches), signal a hyperresponsiveness in the airway, in form of special mast cells. (Figure 2& 3) This is Inflammation .....
|
|
|
|
