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- 1131: Marijuana As A Medicine
- ... as easily regulate their intake (Medical Marijuana 23). No prescription drug offers the benefits and potential of marijuana. Many people have testified to marijuana's validity as a unique form of treatment. One of these, Robert Randall, one of only eight patients supplied with marijuana by the federal government, was diagnosed with acute glaucoma and told that he would be blinded within five years (Brazaitis 1C). Randall discovered by accident that ...
- 1132: About Medical Marijuana
- ... the DEA-a law enforcement agency-is allowed to set its own criteria used to determine what "medicine" is, the courts will be unable to require the DEA to reschedule marijuana. Temporary Compasssion In 1975, Robert Randall, a glaucoma patient, was arrested for cultivating his own medicinal marijuana. He won his case by using the "defense of medical necessity," forcing the government to find a way to provide him with his ...
- 1133: Leukemia
- ... like a hopeful future with the developments of new drugs. Maybe, with the increase in technology and new medicines we may someday surpass present day treatments and find a complete cure for leukemia. Bibliography Altman, Robert and Michael Sarg. The Cancer Dictionary. NY: Facts on File Co., 1992: 153-155. Bourne, Sarah. "Leukemia." Marshal Cavendish. NY: Marshal Cavendish, 1993: 996-998. Fackelmann, Kathy A. "New Treatments For Hairy Cell Leukemia." Science ...
- 1134: How has AIDS affected our Society?
- ... Paris isolated what appeared to be a new human retrovirus from the lymph node of a man at risk for having AIDS. At the same time, scientists working in the laboratory of American research, scientist Robert Gallo at the National Cancer Institute, one of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, and a group headed by American virologist Jay Levy at the University of California at San Francisco isolated a ...
- 1135: Diabetes
- ... a day so they sugar comes in slow. For type II they have to loose weigh and exercise more. Some people test their own blood sugar levels throughout the day and have insulin pumps. DIABETES Robert Quinn Brick Memorial High School January 23, 1997
- 1136: Cognitive Dissonance
- ... s theory of cognitive dissonance. Leon Festinger's theory, unlike the others I have described, deal with quantitative aspects, as well as qualitative. That's what is so different and revolutionary about Festinger's theory. Robert Wicklund and Jack Brehm (1976), in their book Perspectives on Cognitive Dissonance, write, Most notably, the original statement of dissonance theory included propositions about the resistance-to-change of cognitions and about the proportion of ...
- 1137: Breach of Confidentiality: The Legal Implications When You Are Seeking Therapy
- ... a clients insanity defense would have been helpful in deciding a famous court case in 1843: the McNaghten's case. McNaghten used the insanity defense, when he was faced with the charge of killing Sir Robert Peele's private secretary. A jury had to decide, if he was conscious of the act or if he was temporary insane ( McCarty, 299-300 ). The jury clearly didn't have the professional training to ...
- 1138: Antibiotics
- ... was in the late 1800's that the real study of medicine began. Louis Pasteur discovered that bacterium was the cause of disease, and proved wrong the theory of spontaneous generation. After him there was Robert Koch, who developed a method of isolating and growing bacteria. Scientists tried developing drugs that could kill microbes, but they proved to be either dangerous or ineffective. In 1928 there was a discovery by Alexander ...
- 1139: AIDS/HIV
- ... AIDS patients were male homosexuals. However, after 1989 90% of all new cases of AIDS were from heterosexual intercourse. Public awareness rose as famous people began to die, like Rock Hudson, Perry Ellis, Michael Bennett, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Tony Richardson. Basketball star Magic Johnson also reported having AIDS. The approximate number of AIDS cases in the U.S. alone is 65,000 and growing. So far, there is no treatment or ...
- 1140: Antibiotics
- ... was in the late 1800's that the real study of medicine began. Louis Pasteur discovered that bacterium was the cause of disease, and proved wrong the theory of spontaneous generation. After him there was Robert Koch, who developed a method of isolating and growing bacteria. Scientists tried developing drugs that could kill microbes, but they proved to be either dangerous or ineffective. In 1928 there was a discovery by Alexander ...
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