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- 401: The Case for Euthanasia: Should Physician-Assisted Suicide be Legalized?
- ... on my research, it seems clear that the effort to legalize active euthanasia is one that is not going to go away in the near future. This is especially due to the spread of the AIDS virus and other incurable diseases. However, although I feel that it should be legalized with certain provisions, I cannot foresee it's uniform, federal regulation in the near future, especially with a conservative Supreme Court ...
- 402: When is Now? Euthanasia and Morality
- ... have often been known to miscalculate or to make mistakes. Death is final and irreversible; in some cases doctors have wrongly made diagnostic errors during a check-up. Patients being told they have cancer or AIDS, by their doctors' mistake, have killed themselves to avoid the pain. Gay-Williams, The Wrongfulness of Euthanasia, stated: "Contemporary medicine has high standards of excellence and a proven record of accomplishment, but it does not ...
- 403: Euthanasia
- Euthanasia An eighty-seven year old grandmother on a respirator, a newborn child with AIDS, and a father in a coma; all put to death by respectable doctors with the O.K. of their families. But is it really 3O.K.ύ? Euthanasia, or doctor-assisted suicide, has become as ...
- 404: Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD)
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) There are now more than twenty disorders recognized as being transmitted primarily by sexual means. The more familiar STD's are AIDS, gonorhea, syphilis, chlamydia-related infections, genital herpes, candidiasis, nonspecific vaginitis, trichomoniasis, pediculosis, scabies, and urinary tract infections. GONORRHEA One of the most frequently encountered communicable diseases in the U.S. It is caused by the ...
- 405: Alcohol Consumption by Adolescents
- ... selection schemes to randomly select among those eligible (Marνn, 1992, 1104). Interviewers were bilingual males and females. Experienced interviewers recruited respondents by telling them this was a national health survey and that the topic was AIDS. Interviewers received specific training on how to ask the highly personal questions used in this research (Marνn, 1992, 1104). A response rate in survey sampling can be defined as the ratio of the number of ...
- 406: Tuberculosis
- ... ten million individuals are infected in the U.S., as evidenced by positive skin tests, with approximately 26,000 new cases of active disease each year. The increase in TB cases is related to HIV/AIDS, homelessness, drug abuse and immigration of persons with active infections. How is TB Contracted? TB is a contagious or infectious disease that is spread from person-to- person. A person is usually infected by inhaling ...
- 407: The Immune System
- ... the T and B lymphocytes can take faster and better action against it. There are many disorders that disrupt the immune system's operations. The most serious are the disorders called immunodeficiency diseases, such as AIDS. These diseases can lead to death. Immunodeficiency diseases are among the most severe disorders of the immune system. People afflicted with such conditions lack some basic feature or function of their immune system. As a ...
- 408: Small Pox
- ... venereal diseases of the times like oral herpes and hepatitis. There is a vaccine now for all the terrible plagues so there is nomore real concern about stuff like smallpox the big thing today is AIDS. Small pox, which was once the most feared disease known by mankind started out in the days of Christopher Columbus. The disease set out to change the lives of the people in the worse way ...
- 409: Nutrition and You
- ... One primary function of vitamin C is to maintain collagen, a protein necessary for the formation of skin, ligaments, and bones. Vitamin C also plays a role in healing of burns and wounds because it aids the formation of scar tissue. It also helps form red blood cells and prevent hemorrhaging. Another function is to prevent the disease, scurvy, which used to be seen in sailors because of their lack of ...
- 410: About Medical Marijuana
- ... of muscle spasms; relief from mild to moderate chronic pain. Marijuana is often useful in the treatment of the following conditions: Cancer: Marijuana alleviates the nausea, vomiting, and loss of appetite caused by chemotherapy treatment. AIDS: Marijuana alleviates the nausea, vomiting, and loss of appetite caused by the disease itself and by treatment with AZT and other drugs. Glaucoma: Marijuana, by reducing intraocular pressure, alleviates the pain and slows or halts ...
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