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- 281: Money And Information
- ... today. The cases that became known show different degrees of endangerment: The misuse of "STASI" documents, i.e. the documents of the Ministry for State Security of the former GDR, or the possible blackmailing of AIDS-infected patients prove that in the information society of the 20th century, data protection has become a central matter of concern. The storing of information about defaulting debtors by credit investigation agencies or the transmission ... lawyers and banks. Such data constituted the object of the offence in a South-African case, in which the offender - presumably through theft of magnetic tapes - obtained medical data of persons that had undergone an AIDS-test; the data were passed on to the employers of the persons affected. Another clear case of infringement of traditional regulations on protection of secrets happened in 1989 when two employees of one of the ...
- 282: Money And Information
- ... today. The cases that became known show different degrees of endangerment: The misuse of "STASI" documents, i.e. the documents of the Ministry for State Security of the former GDR, or the possible blackmailing of AIDS-infected patients prove that in the information society of the 20th century, data protection has become a central matter of concern. The storing of information about defaulting debtors by credit investigation agencies or the transmission ... lawyers and banks. Such data constituted the object of the offence in a South-African case, in which the offender - presumably through theft of magnetic tapes - obtained medical data of persons that had undergone an AIDS-test; the data were passed on to the employers of the persons affected. Another clear case of infringement of traditional regulations on protection of secrets happened in 1989 when two employees of one of the ...
- 283: Marijuana: The Legalization
- ... where that medical use is deemed appropriate and has been recommended by a physician who has determined that the person's health would benefit from the use of marijuana in the treatment of cancer, anorexia, AIDS, chronic pain, spasticity, glaucoma, arthritis, migraine, or any other illness for which marijuana provides relief. (B) To ensure that patients and their primary care givers obtain and use marijuana for medical purposes upon the recommendation ... reported that a puff or two of a marijuana cigarette relieves the pain. (Theorized after study by psychiatrist Lester Grinspoon of Harvard Medical School) It has also been reported to relieve the pain suffered by AIDS patients. Despite all this great relief, one question remains unanswered, what about the side effects? Exactly how harmful and addicting is this stuff? My Side: (The Important Stuff) My personal opinion: Marijuana should remain illegal ...
- 284: Legalization of Marijuana
- Legalization of Marijuana The legalization of marijuana as a prescription drug should be allowed. Medical research shows that marijuana has therapeutic value in patients with various types of cancers, some neurological disorders, and AIDS patients. The marijuana eases some of the effects of chemotherapy such as nausea and dizziness. It also controls muscle spasms and contractions and aids in the relaxation of patients with neurological disorders. Many researchers and administrations of the government, such as the Drug Enforcement Administration(D.E.A.) feel that legalizing marijuana is an unnecessary approach in the treatment ...
- 285: U.S. Scourge Spreads South Of The Border
- ... needle in their arm for joy and pleasure. It is no longer the sniff, smoking of drugs but a whole new trend of slamming (using needles to induce a drug). Even the worldwide scare of Aids doesn't keep the drug of heroin from society. Dirty needles also scar the arms of the heroin addict for life. At the municipal jail, inmates detained the night before for minor infractions such as ... cholesterol and other medications, often saving 50% of more. and thanks to looser regulations, the pharmacies also readily sell drugs that are unavailable or require prescriptions in the United States, from Prozac to treatments for Aids and cancer. On Tijuana's Avenida Revolucion, a tourist strip where merchants hawk liquor and Cuban cigars amid the blare of mariachi music, bustling drugstores with names like Pharmacy America and New York Pharmacy ring ...
- 286: Marijuana
- ... known as cannibis extract, has been used as medicine on sick patients since the beginning of time, around 2727 B.C. Marijuana has thousands of uses in medicine, particularly to treat symptoms of cancer, glaucoma, AIDS, multiple sclerosis, and epilepsy. It is known that Marijuana is one of the safest therapeutically active drugs in the world and that no one has ever died or overdosed from the drug. Marijuana can reduce nausea, vomiting, and help with loss of appetite in cancer and AIDS patients. With glaucoma patients, Marijuana can help reduce the intraocular pressure and horrible pain the body experiences. For multiple sclerosis, it helps reduce tremors, stops muscle spasms, and restores bladder control, speech and eyesight, and ...
- 287: Weed
- ... scholars and wise men. It is usually ranked among the top medicines, called 'panaceas', a word which means 'cure-all'. The list of diseases which cannabis can be used for includes: multiple sclerosis, cancer treatment, AIDS (and AIDS treatment), glaucoma, depression, epilepsy, migraine headaches, asthma, pruritis, sclerodoma, severe pain, and dystonia. This list does not even consider the other medicines which can be made out of marijuanathese are just some of the ...
- 288: Speech Recognition Technology
- ... voice is used to confirm identity. Speech recognition, for many years, has been used in rehabilitative medicine, industrial inspection where the inspector's hands are used to investigate an object, and children's electronic learning aids. Millions of Americans are disabled in this country and speech-recognition technology has profoundly helped improve some of their lives. Blind, dyslexic, and paralyzed individuals use speech recognition technology to become more independent and to ... mannequin, but consists of 20,000 lines of software code. He helps deaf children learn how to speak by accurately enunciating words. His facial expressions mirror those of a human when he pronunciates words. He aids deaf children by asking them a question and then evaluating their answers. If the child's pronunciation is wrong, he repeats the answer slowly and breaks it down into syllables. This thorough amount of practice ...
- 289: Climate Change (term Paper)
- ... of reasoning, one way or another mother nature will surely take care of us. Lack of resources, environmental degradation, famine and disease will in the painful fashion known by our ancestors cut our species back. AIDS is the obvious example of a way in which to do it....Conditions already exist in several African countries for the virus to kill more people than are being born...However, with its incubation period of as much as ten years or even more, AIDS is not a boom-and-bust infection like the Black Death. Unchecked it could move on a time-scale of 200 rather than 20 years. But the effects could be as devastating. It is thus ...
- 290: The Ebola Virus
- ... macrophages are cells that engulf bacteria and help the body defend against disease. Massive destruction of the liver is a hallmark feature of Ebola virus infection. This virus does in ten days what it takes AIDS ten years to do. It also requires biosaftey level four containment, the highest and most dangerous level. HIV the virus that causes AIDS requires only a biosaftey level of two. In reported outbreaks, 50%-90% of cases have been fatal (JAMA 273: 1748). Ebola can be spread in a number of ways, and replication of the virus occurs ...
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