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- 151: A Study Of Catholicism
- ... take a risk and help her. An instance in which the church is not so open has to do with homosexuality. I know that the Catholic Church embraces good causes, and finding a cure for AIDS is one. I know of Catholic churches that hold fundraising events, awareness seminars and promote AIDS benefits. There is such a thick layer of hypocrisy in this example. The church refuses to acknowledge homosexuals as human beings, yet the homosexual community is hit very hard by the AIDS epidemic. How can they embrace the AIDS cause, yet denounce homosexuality. This is just one instance of non-openness in the Catholic Church. "Christian realism" is critical thinking in the context of the Catholic ...
- 152: Hepatitis
- ... to their discovery. There is also a non-viral Hepatitis which is caused by substance. One rumor that has spread about hepatitis is that a person can only contract Hepatitis if associated with HIV or AIDS. This is not true! Any one can become infected with Hepatitis. Unfortunately this is about all most people know of Hepatitis. They need to know the full horror of which the virus is capable. The ... to become inflamed. Usually the people that get infected with Hep. B can fight off the virus, but there are some individuals that are unable to fight. This would include people infected with HIV or AIDS. The symptoms of Hep. B are very similar to Hep. A, loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, fever, weakness of body which may last up to several weeks even months, abdominal pain, darkening of urine ... as well as simply living in the same area with a person who has the Hep. B virus. It is the most contagious of the Hepatitis viruses. It's even more contagious than HIV or AIDS, and it's the most commonly contracted of the viruses(American Liver Foundation June 1993pg. 3). Hepatitis C, formerly known as non-A, non-B Hepatitis is very similar to Hep. B in that ...
- 153: Cholera: Virulence, Origin, and Pandemics
- ... hosts. The first, analogous to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), is one in which all hosts that become afflicted with the pathogen ultimately die due to progression of the virus—namely acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in this example. Since the mortality rate is 100%, it does no good to measure virulence in this way. Instead, different strains of HIV can be quantified by how fast they produce the onset of AIDS. In short, the more virulent strains have greater success in shortening the length of onset of AIDS after contracting HIV (1). The second type of virulence noted by Ewald (1) was in circumstances where contraction of the pathogen did not guarantee death to the host. Most pathogens we are familiar with ...
- 154: Creative Writing: X-Men
- ... Xavier, the world's strongest telepath, “sworn to protect a world that fears and hates them.” The X-Men comics are not just about prejudice either. They tackle many social issues, such as abortion and AIDS. The original team of X-Men consisted of five teen-agers and Xavier (Professor X). These were not as popular as other titles of the times such as Superman, Batman, Spiderman, The Fantastic Four, and ... but they battle other social injustices as well. One is the fear inspired by the Legacy Virus. This is a disease that attacks a mutant's genetic structure and eats it away, much like the AIDS virus attacks and destroys a person's immune system. The X-Men have already lost some close friends to this disease. At first it was thought that only mutants could get the virus, like it was once thought that only homosexuals or drug users could get AIDS. Then a friend of the X-Men, genetic researcher Moira MacTaggert, a normal human, contracted the disease and panic spread like wild fire. Now all of the sudden every Tom, Dick, and Harry is ...
- 155: Men Fear Death
- ... to cut short a long-term battle with a chronic disease. In today’s age with so many diseases, despite our advanced technology, there is not a cure for many illnesses. With sicknesses such as AIDS, ALS, Huntington’s Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, and Alzheimer’s; many people go through great deals of pain and suffering while battling these ailments. Some see death as their only escape route and will go to ... Another aspect of assisted suicide is that its just plain cheaper to end it. Medical treatments are very expensive in the gadget filled medical field of today. For someone with an incurable illness such as AIDS, death is a better option pain wise and economically speaking. Yet another positive aspect that can be forged from the event of death is the good the dead body can do for others. With today ... Yet a more scientific man may say, it’s the end of the road. Do what you can before you die. But even without theological backing, death can be a good. For a terminally ill AIDS patient or for the child who needs the heart that another dying person has waiting for them ready to give them the gift of life. Then again, death brings about large amounts of suffering ...
- 156: Marijuana: Persuasive Essay
- ... is that recently my mother was in the hospital for a brain aneurysm and when she got headaches she was given morphine. This is just like what is going on in California, people diagnosed with AIDS and other illnesses should be able to use strong medicines including marijuana to ease the suffering that they are experiencing. Especially in California where there are more AIDS cases there than any other place in the nation. All over the state there are clinics that supply patients with pot for them to use to relax. Some of these places have strict guidelines for ... their pot there were upset. City Hall, in the first week got 150 calls asking for help. Officials went to the Healing Alternatives Foundation and asked for help. Matthew Sharp, the foundation director and an AIDS patient told the mayor that he would not help because of the guidelines. Matthew sharp also said he "really never liked to smoke pot." But after he was diagnosed with wasting syndrome, the smoking ...
- 157: Pass The Weed
- ... a resurgence in the opinion of the drug's positive medicinal purposes. Studies on the medicinal uses of marijuana have been conducted on many patients that suffer from various health problems. In patients with the AIDS, the drug served as a beneficial way to stimulate appetite. Thousands of AIDS patients already use marijuana illegally for this condition and have reported excellent results. For those AIDS victims, marijuana can reduce the nausea, vomiting, and loss of appetite that are common to the syndrome. Another medical function for marijuana is to combat glaucoma, the leading cause of blindness in the United ...
- 158: Marijuana: A Horticultural Revolution, A Medical and Legal Battle
- ... persons afflicted with a variety of life-threatening illnesses. Courts have recognized marijuana's medical value in treatment and have ruled that marijuana can be a drug of “necessity” in the treatment of glaucoma, cancer, AIDS, and multiple sclerosis. From the collection of information we now have on marijuana's health benefits for the ill, there is no longer any reason to keep it illegal. It should therefore be legal for ... offers the only reasonable opportunity for living without unbearable pain. Marijuana has been used many times to help ease pain and suffering. It often eases nausea in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, reduces the pain of AIDS patients and lowers eye pressure in glaucoma sufferers. Cancer and AIDS patients often lose a lot of weight, either due directly to their illness or indirectly to the treatment of the illness. Dramatic weight loss puts their lives in even more danger. Marijuana stimulates the ...
- 159: Legalization of Marijana: For
- ... should have legal access to marijuana to relieve pain and suffering, 85%6 of the American public already support this change. Many of them (22%) have had a family member or friend sick with cancer, AIDS, multiple sclerosis, glaucoma or some other potentially devastating disease, who has had to risk arrest and jail to obtain marijuana to alleviate the side effects of cancer chemotherapy, overcome the AIDS wasting syndrome, or treat other life threatening or serious illnesses. Basic compassion and common sense demand that we allow these citizens to use whatever medication is most effective, subject to the supervision of a physician ... Scientists9 have recently endorsed the medical use of marijuana. Marijuana is an effective means of overcoming the nausea and vomiting associated with cancer chemotherapy, and the nausea and appetite loss in the wasting syndrome of AIDS. It is useful for various spastic conditions including multiple sclerosis, paraplegia, and quadriplegia. It also lowers intraocular pressure in people who suffer from open-angle glaucoma. For some people with epilepsy it is the ...
- 160: Condoms A Good Idea
- ... The Committee on Adolescence, American Academy of Pediatrics believes: School condom availability programs, whether as part of comprehensive health services provided at the school site, or in the context of a school based HIV infection/AIDS prevention program, can help remove barriers to contraceptive use by teenagers and can help establish condom use as a norm for expected responsible behavior, thus encouraging both peer and cultural acceptance (Pediatrics, 4) Many factors ... consequences of sex," which can in turn, make them cautious. Dr. Mark Schuster, a pediatric professor at the University of California at Los Angeles stated: Students are reminded that with sex can come with pregnancy, AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases. Condoms raise awareness about sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS and pregnancy. The attitudes about engaging in sex actually becomes more negative. It also seems that distribution of condoms change the attitudes of teens who are sexually active (Mishra, 1). Among teens who have ...
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