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- 421: Angina Pectoris
- ... and vaccines for various diseases and disorders are being developed constantly, and yet, coronary heart disease remains the number one killer in the world. The media today concentrates intensely on drug and alcohol abuse, homicides, AIDS and so on. What a lot of people are not realizing is that coronary heart disease actually accounts for about 80% of all sudden deaths. In fact, the number of deaths from heart disease approximately ...
- 422: Smoking
- ... women. (d) ES and BS subscales had a significant main effect for smoking status. This study concludes by showing "that smokers score higher on measures of sensation seeking than do non-smokers" (p. 224). This aids the belief that sensation seekers may be more open to become dependant on smoking, as opposed to those who score low on sensation seeking activities. Finally, women scoring higher on the ES subscale, was attributed ...
- 423: Should Marijuana be Legalized for Medical Purposes?
- ... supports medical legalization initiatives because he thinks it will make marijuana easier to find. California's proposition 215 is an initiative that would legalize marijuana for medical purposes. [Proposition 215] would permit patients with cancer, AIDS, glaucoma, arthritis, and other serious illnesses to grow, posses and use marijuana (Lacayo). Despite criticism of Prop 215 that suggests the initiative is too loosely constructed, polls show that California voters favor it by almost ...
- 424: 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 ...
- 425: Drugs: How Danagerous Is It?
- ... if one is used to the non-pure heroin and then gets purer heroin, he or she can easily overdose, killing them. Also, because this is injected by a needle, heroin can pass diseases, including AIDS. Short term effects include the following: quick addiction, quick tolerance, depression, and blurred vision. Long term effects include the following: depression, vein disorders. The fact that you can die of an overdose makes heroin very ...
- 426: Senility
- ... if the rate of progress is rapid and the patient has risk factors for the development of HIV infection (Horton and Smart, 1984, p.321). Although the dementia is part of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) complex, it may occasionally be the first manifestation of the disease. It is often difficult to differentiate depression from dementia (Bunch, 1997, p. 109). Nevertheless, sudden onset - especially if proceeded by an emotional event, the ...
- 427: Alternative Medicine
- ... alternative medicine, 10.3 billion of it came out of the patients own pocket. Since then alternative medicine's popularity has most likely increased. Informal surveys indicate that between 50 and 80% of cancer and AIDS patients are currently using one or more alternative therapies. More and more medical programs are now offering electives in alternative treatments. An article in Newsweek gave some examples of these programs. At the University of ...
- 428: On Ockham's Razor and Gulf Ills
- ... the elucidation of diseases and their causes, the less that is known about an illness at the onset, the more possible causes it has. Think about all of the "causes" adduced fifteen years ago for AIDS! They include dope, sensation-enhancing drugs (poppers), etc. In the end, after scientific investigation, only one essential cause remains: HIV. No virus, then no disease, no matter what else is happening. By the same token ...
- 429: Abortion Should Not Be Legalized
- ... the baby into a collection bottle. Great care must be taken to prevent the uterus from being damaged, which would cause hemorrhage. A woman with hemorrhage will need a blood transfusion that could cause her AIDS. Also infection may easily occur if fetal tissue is left behind in the uterus. Another method used for babies as old as twenty four weeks, is the Dilation and Evacuation. Sharp jaws are used to ...
- 430: Capital Punishment
- ... tough-on-crime politicians, of course, are elected by promising bigger and better jails for those scum bags. I once heard someone say, "Building jails to lessen crime is like building more cemeteries to prevent AIDS." Prison building is the fastest growing industry in America. In fact, prisons can no longer be called prisons. The politically correct term is correction-industrial complexes. Gene Amole is a writer for the New York ...
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