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- 1581: Sleepwalking
- ... in deep sleep. To support the idea that it is physiological sources that cause the disturbance in their sleep, children undergo physiological changes (puberty) which cause the symptoms to go away without the intervention of drugs or other treatment. This is observable in the significant drop in post-pubescent incidences of sleepwalking. Drug therapies are also effective in stopping the problem for many children, implying that it is a chemical cause ...
- 1582: Insanity
- ... or on stage were, such as the whole smoking every hour thing. Another performer people portray as being insane is the hip-hop artist, Eminem. He has written songs about killing his girlfriends and doing drugs, amongst other controversial subjects. People often criticize him for his subject matter, but it doesnt appear to bother him. In fact, his very own mother is taking him to court because of the way ...
- 1583: Issues of Assisted Suicide
- ... actual ending of the life; an action taken to cause the death of that person. Passive, which is negative, the withholding of the life ending process and it would hold up the procedure by giving drugs to someone who is terminally ill and would not be able to survive without them. The people who are for euthanasia or assisted suicide, hand out all the work of the killing to the doctors ...
- 1584: Assisted Suicide
- ... work. There are just far too many patients and not enough physicians to aid all of the them. A patient who wants to stop receiving the medical help that is keeping them alive, and have drugs administered to end their suffering, should be allowed to do as they wish. This refusal of help could allow more time for the doctors to save the lives of people who desperately want to live ...
- 1585: Teenage Smoking
- ... 1970s, but during the past decade has neither risen nor fallen according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. It didnt change in spite of the fact that fewer high schoolers used illegal drugs or alcohol, adults were giving up cigarettes in droves, and no one in the country could miss the message linking tobacco to cancer, strokes, emphysema, and heart disease. University of Michigans Lloyd Johnston, who ...
- 1586: Bacteria
- ... you produce antibodies that fight off other diseases. Some bacteria are now even fighting back with the vaccines, antibiotic resistance. They can reproduce rapidly and they mutate. They can become resistant to some of the drugs that are used against them. Each time an antibiotic is used to kill off the bacteria, a few are left behind and pass along the resistance along to the next generation. In many countries with ...
- 1587: The Plague in 1347
- ... body; in some cases large and but few in number, in others smaller and more numerous both sorts the usual messengers of death. The cure of this plague, neither medical knowledge nor the power of drugs was of any effect; whether because the disease was in its own nature mortal or that the physicians could form no just idea of the cause. While this was occurring, people began to reflect on ...
- 1588: Bronchial Asthma
- ... controlling sudden asthma attacks and for preventing attacks brought on by physical activity or exercise. They work directly on sites called beta-receptors that are attached to small muscle bands encircling the airways. When these drugs attach to the beta-receptors, the muscles relax and the airway dilates. Theophylline is a bronchodilator that works by relaxing the muscles surrounding the airways. Anti-inflammatory medications work mainly by interfering with the activity ...
- 1589: Homosexuality and the Healthcare Profession
- ... homosexuality is psychopathological and assign differing weights to constitutional and experiential determinants" (Bieber 1962). These `cures' range from psychiatric approaches of electro-convulsive therapy, aversion therapy by electric shocks or the administration of nausea-inducing drugs, to surgical methods of castration and brain surgery, such as lobotomies. The law as a whole legislates in many ways in order to actively discourage a gay way of life. Gay partnerships/partners are not ...
- 1590: HIV/AIDS Seminar
- ... aware of HIV/AIDS at the same time the "drug" and "sex talks" are being given. This way the topics are being interrelated and connections can be made. Examples of these connections may include using drugs with needles or having unprotected sex that can result in the contraction of the virus. Not only is it the responsibility of the parents to discuss this concern with their children, but it is also ...
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