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- 6491: About Medical Marijuana
- ... Controlled Substances Act of 1970 established five categories, or "schedules," into which all illicit and prescription drugs were placed. Marijuana was placed in Schedule I, which defines the substance as having a high potential for abuse, no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States, and a lack of accepted safety for use under medical supervision. This definition is simply not accurate. However, at the time of the Controlled ...
- 6492: How has AIDS affected our Society?
- ... awareness through open discussion and condom distribution in public schools have been opposed due to fear that these efforts encourage sexual promiscuity among young adults. Similarly, needle-exchange programs have been criticized as promoting drug abuse. Governor Christine Todd Whitman vetoed a bill in New Jersey that tried to create a needle-exchange program. She was accused of being "compassionless". She replied that she could not allow drug addicts to continue ...
- 6493: Hemophilia
- ... second most common form of hemophilia, hemophilia B (also known as Christmas disease), factor IX is absent. The condition appears when the person is born. Also, the disease is hereditary, passed on from parent to child. Because of it's genetic makeup, hemophilia is carried by females however those affected are almost always males. In one-third of all cases hemophilia thought to be caused by spontaneous gene mutation with no ...
- 6494: The Ear and Hearing Loss
- ... necessary since it was just a matter of paying attention. Q: Do you wear any hearing devices? A: No, (same reason as last question) Q: Was it hard at all to communicate either as a child or as an adult? A: All the time I face the problem of someone talking to me and I don't even know it. Once someone mistakenly accused me of ignoring them. Q: Do you ...
- 6495: Antibiotic Resistance
- ... era. But just when antibiotics were being mass produced, bacteria started to evolve and became resistant to these medicines. Antibiotic resistance can be the result of different things. One cause of resistance could be drug abuse. There are people who believe that when they get sick, antibiotics are the answer. The more times you use a drug, the more it will decrease the effect it has on you. That is because ...
- 6496: Ebola
- ... This outbreak caused about 500 deaths. Scientists from the CDC in Atlanta named the new virus Ebola, subtype Zaire. The virus that caused the outbreak in Sudan was later called Ebola Sudan. In 1977 a child in Tandala, Zaire died of a hemorrahagic fever. In 1977 another outbreak occurred in Sudan and the first case was pinpointed to the same room in the cotton factory that the victim in 1979 had ...
- 6497: Down Syndrome Report
- ... head, a flat face, slightly upward slanted eyelids, skin folds at the inner corners of the eyes, small nose and mouth, and small hands and feet. Most of these characteristic do not interfere with the child's functioning, a doctor primarily uses the characteristics for diagnostic purposes. These physical features are variable, and children with Down syndrome are usually more like other children than they are different. Individuals with Down syndrome ...
- 6498: Inflammatory Bowel Disease/ Crohn's Disease
- ... run in some families. About 20 percent of people with Crohn's disease have a blood relative with some form of inflammatory bowel disease, most often a brother or sister and sometimes a parent or child. How Does Crohn's Disease Affect Children? Women with Crohn's disease who are considering having children can be comforted to know that the vast majority of such pregnancies will result in normal children. Research ...
- 6499: Autonomy Vs. Paternalism In Mental Health Treatment
- ... be abridged for paternalism? If choice is the right of every citizen than all parties involved in the case of Jacob Gordon acted in an unethical and/or immoral way. The family looked upon thier child as less than a human " To deny an individual's autonomy is to treat that person as less than human. (Atkinson, 1991, p.106)". The family was abusive to this person that they claimed was ...
- 6500: Autism
- Autism Autism is one of the mental, emotional, and behavior disorders that appears in early childhood. Autism, or autistic disorder, almost always develops within the first 3 years of a child's life. Children and adolescents with autism cannot interact normally with other people. Autism thus affects many aspects of their development. Children with and adolescents with autism typically: -have a difficult time communicating with others ...
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