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- 931: The Clinton Health Plan
- ... forms for doctors and patients to fill out. So much so, that doctors spend more time improving their handwriting than healing people. Greed and Profiteering: Some drug companies make over 10,000% profit on the drugs they manufacture. In 1991, the median income of doctors was $139,000 for general practitioners and $512,000 for specialists. Unneeded Surgery and Tests: Possibly 15 to 35% of certain types of operations and tests ... of operations are covered, and it puts restrictions on how long a person can stay in a hospital, nursing home, or rehabilitation center. It would also regulate the wages of specialists, and the prices of drugs. Overall, what Clinton's health care plan will do is put caps on insurance premiums thereby causing competition between insurers. It will also greatly reduce the waste by: reducing the paperwork enormously by having fewer ...
- 932: How the 60's Changed Our Lives
- ... their childhood values. To themselves, they were the dawn of a new society in America. A psychedelic society, almost utopian, in which love would be everywhere and people would help each other. (O'Neill 127) Drugs were very quickly associated with the hippies. You could often see people smoking marijuana on sidewalks, in parked cars, in doughnut shops, or relaxing on the grass of a public park, anywhere (O'Neill 125 ... Zappa 98) were some of the mottoes of their generation, which changed many of society's rules governing our clothing, speech, and taboos about sex, into the more relaxed ones of today. Because of the drugs, and the sex, and the immense population that was doing them, crime was reduced greatly. Even the most conservative members of a neighborhood would admit that the streets were safer than they had been for ...
- 933: Rock Music
- ... style that was designated the name of "hippie music". Groups that played this music were “Country Joe and The Fish” and “The Mamas and The Papas”. Along with this hippie idea the popularity of hallucinogenic drugs produced a psychedelic style of music called Acid Rock. By the end of the 60´s, the distinctions between Rock n´ Roll and Rock were evident. The early instruments - saxophone, piano, amplified guitar, and drums ... and other electronic devices. Not only did the instruments change but so did the ideas behind the music. For example, "to the lyrics of teenage love and adolescent concerns, were added social commentary, glorification of drugs and free-association poetry"("Rock Music", Groliers, p.1). Groups like The Beach Boys, Crew Cuts and The Everly Brothers were replaced by more imaginative, non-descriptive names groups like The Who, Jefferson Airplane, Big ...
- 934: What is Angina? And What is the Cure?
- ... of a heart attack. Used both for treatment of symptoms as well as prevention of anticipated symptoms, nitrates are considered by many to be the mainstay of medical therapy for angina. The second group of drugs are called "beta blockers" for their ability to block the activity of the beta receptors of the nervous system. These receptors cause actions such as blood pressure elevation, rapid heart rate, and forceful heart contractions. When these actions are reduced, the heart needs less blood, and thus angina may be reduced. The newest group of drugs for angina is called the calcium channel blockers. Calcium channels refer to the areas of the membranes of heart and other cells where calcium flows in and out, reacting with other chemicals to modulate the ...
- 935: Rock Music
- ... style that was designated the name of "hippie music". Groups that played this music were “Country Joe and The Fish” and “The Mamas and The Papas”. Along with this hippie idea the popularity of hallucinogenic drugs produced a psychedelic style of music called Acid Rock. By the end of the 60´s, the distinctions between Rock n´ Roll and Rock were evident. The early instruments - saxophone, piano, amplified guitar, and drums ... and other electronic devices. Not only did the instruments change but so did the ideas behind the music. For example, "to the lyrics of teenage love and adolescent concerns, were added social commentary, glorification of drugs and free-association poetry"("Rock Music", Groliers, p.1). Groups like The Beach Boys, Crew Cuts and The Everly Brothers were replaced by more imaginative, non-descriptive names groups like The Who, Jefferson Airplane, Big ...
- 936: Haemophilia
- ... 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 in low red and white ... the bone marrow.11 AZT and DDI both represent the first generation of anti-retroviral drug and it is the hope of many people that they will be followed by less toxic and more effective drugs. As it can be seen, haemophilia is one of those sex-linked diseases that must involve the inheritance of both recessive and deficient chromosomes. It is mostly found in males and since every male has ...
- 937: Drinking And Driving Offences
- ... will receive the stiffer penalty for second offences. For the first offence here is the penalty and the defences you can make. Driving a vehicle while your ability to drive is impaired by alcohol or drugs is one of the offences. Evidence of your condition can be used to convict you. This can include evidence of your general conduct, speech, ability to walk a straight line or pick up objects. The ... suspended from him for 20 years instead of 10 years. BIBLIOGRAPHY Highway Traffic Law, (Copyright January 1986: Community Legal Education Ontario) p.17-32 Government Document, Canada Law Reform Commision Report on Investigative Tests: Aclohol, Drugs, and Driving Offences (1983). Erwin,Richard E. M.Bender ,Defence of Drunk Driving Cases, Criminal Civil (Albany 1986) p.79-81 Purich, Donald John, Drinking and Driving:What To Do If Your Caught (International Self ...
- 938: Transplants and Diabetes
- ... to the scientists. The first is that the pancreas produces all the other hormones of a normal pancreas, not just insulin. The second benefit is that the transplant recipient doesn't have to take immunosuppressive drugs, which are so toxic for diabetics. At present, diabetics who receive a transplanted pancreas must take such drugs for life. The scientists eventual goal is a human trial, but they admit it will be years before such a study is conducted. The obvious benefit for diabetics, if human trials prove successful, would be ...
- 939: Jim Jones and The Peoples Temple
- ... t very much approved of if you had a child all of the men and women would help raise it, life to them was great. Later in the 70's Jim Jones started to abuse drugs and became paranoid that the end was near. There was talk on the outside of human right abuse which caused congressman Leo Ryan to visit Jonestown for an inspection. When Temple members wanted to leave ... first temple A. People involved B. Cures C. The move 3. The final move A. Means of survival 1.“Peoples Temple Agricultural Project” 2. Translation 3.Practice of suicide B. The end is near 1 Drugs 2. Leo Ryan 3 Members leaving 4 The air strip C. The Panic in the Temple 1 The planning 2 The final option 3. The mass suicide 4. The murdered 4. The end of the ...
- 940: Viruses
- ... the law. But where did all of this start, MIT is where hacking started the people there would learn and explore computer systems all around the world. In the views of professional hacking is like drugs or any other addictive substance, it's an addiction for the mind and once started it's difficult to stop. This could be true, as hackers know what they are doing is wrong and they ...
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