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- 301: 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 ...
- 302: Human Cloning
- ... a science fiction movie but rather a realistic look into the future of science and medicine. Have you ever imagined what life would be like if we could eliminate human problems and diseases such as AIDs, cancer and human organ shortages? This is the question that arises when the subject of cloning is brought up and I believe that cloning is the next generation of medicine and can be beneficial to ... clone human cells is that it has the potential to cure diseases. As of now we have not been able to solve the problems in many of the worlds deadliest diseases such as cancer and AIDS. There is also studies that show cloning can be used to stop hereditary diseases by getting rid of defective genes and replacing them with new ones that do not carry the disease. One of the ...
- 303: Marijuana for Medicinal Purposes
- ... sick people of a drug that can help them. Marijuana can be used to combat glaucoma, epilepsy, Multiple Sclerosis, back pain, asthma, rheumatism, arthritis, migraines, emphysema, cystic fibrosis, and promotes appetite in some cancer and AIDS patients. Drugs like morphine, valium, lithium, and codeine are regularly given to patients and are far more addictive, having many more negative affects than Marijuana. Marijuana "has little effect on major physiological functions. There is ... ever helped anyone, but it is difficult to dismiss the testimony from many seriously ill patients and their doctors that marijuana can ease pain, reduce the nausea associated with cancer chemotherapy, stimulate the appetites of AIDS patients who are wasting away, and lower the pressure within the eyes of glaucoma victims. " The traditional use of Cannabis as an analgesic, anti-asthmatic, and anti-rheumatic drug is well established. A British study ...
- 304: Medical Testing On Animals
- ... the 20th century, from antibiotics to organ transplants, has been achieved either directly or indirectly through the use of animals in laboratory experiments. They also emphasize that animal research holds the key for solutions to AIDS, cancer, heart disease, aging and congenital defects. Lastly they insist that, the result of these experiments has been the elimination or control of many infectious diseases. This has meant a longer, healthier , better life with ... who's been researching the issue since 1974. In England they use only sick or injured animals and do much work on animal cadavers. "Humans can give informed consent. Monkeys and dogs can't." Many AIDS patients have said they are willing to try out new drugs. "Instead, we use Rhesus monkeys." "I actually have hurt animals unnecessarily out of ignorance," says Dr. Sherman Bloom. "If you're preaching reverence for ...
- 305: Bilingual Teaching
- ... school, 70% of the students were Hispanic, 10 % were Asian, 10% African American, and 10% were Anglo. Thus, the mainstream was Hispanic. In the school, three Spanish-English bilingual teachers and two Spanish-English bilingual aids staffed the program. Because of their fluency, these teachers and aids could check comprehension or explain an activity to Spanish speakers with beginning-level proficiency in English. The teachers at this particular school helped to make the program successful because without the proper instruction available to ...
- 306: Born Gay
- ... This was the information that reached the media and that the scientific community embraced. However, there were 19 homosexual men who died of complications due to the HIV virus, 6 heterosexual men who died from AIDS complications, and the 6 women had died of various causes. The most obvious problem with LeVay's study is that all the homosexual men died after a long period of being infected with HIV, which could have affected the size of the INAH-3, addressed by showing that heterosexual men who died from AIDS did not show the smaller nucleus that gay men did. Statistical comparisons of data also showed significant differences even with the extremely small sample sizes that LeVay worked with. Defining sexuality was difficult, as the ...
- 307: Haemophilia
- ... is automatically diagnostic of the presence of a factor VIII inhibitor. The standard treatment of the haemophiliacs is primarily the infusion of factor VIII concentrates, now heat-treated to reduce the chances of transmission of AIDS.6 In the case of minor bleeding, the factor VIII:C levels should only be raised to 25% with one infusion. For moderate bleeding, 'it is adequate to raise the level initially to 50% and ... if she had it performed in the late stages of the pregnancy. Going back to the haemophiliacs, many have become seropositive for HIV infections transmitted through factor VIII and IX concentrates and many have developed AIDS. In Canada, the two drugs currently undergoing clinical testing for treatment of HIV disease are AZT and DDI. For the use of AZT, the major complication is suppression of normal bone marrow activity. This results ...
- 308: Apocalypse
- ... him, even though he is only a spiritual healer who wants to ease the world's pain and suffering. The public's attention will be dominated as this man goes around miraculously healing people of AIDS, Cancer and all sorts of other diseases, and producing food right out of thin air to feed everybody with. As the war rages on between the countries, humanity will desperately want to believe this man ...
- 309: Impermanence, Selflessness, and Dissatisfaction
- ... DeSilva, 1991:p 5). Of the many Buddhist sects, Zen Buddhism places particular emphasis on living the right' life, and does not revolve around rite and ritual. Buddhism outlines the three characteristics of existence, which aids one in achieving enlightenment. Impermanence, selflessness, and dissatisfaction are concepts that are easily understood on an intellectual level, but to apply these concepts in one's life is challenging. Impermanence is concerned with the thought ...
- 310: Elizabeth Bishop and Her Poem "Filling Station"
- ... in the harsh conditions of the filling station, hence the jarring [k] sound, yet the meaning of the words suggest a kind, comfortable atmosphere. Bishop's attention to the sense of sound throughout the poem aids with the metaphoric meaning of the poem as a whole. At a very simplistic level, the poem begins with the setting of a filthy gas station, or perhaps somewhere else where conditions are not very ...
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