Papers on Health and Medicine
Assisted Suicide
Words: 1355 - Pages: 5.... both go to hell. "We don't own ourselves, we are entrusted to God and
the taking of life is the right of the one who give it."
There are also many cultures that believe in this act of dying. Certain
cultures believe that they have the right to end a person's life, only if the
person is suffering with an illness that will only get worse. "In China and
some parts of India, it is an ancient custom to drown newborn girls if they
think they will live a useless life."
The Dutch believe in the act of assisted suicide as many other religions.
They believe that it is easier to end a life so the family and the other people
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Bronchial Asthma
Words: 1644 - Pages: 6.... kills about 5000 per year, and almost a third of those affected are children under 18. Only in the past few years have scientists began to understand the causes and triggers of asthma, linking the disease to autosomal dominant genes on the chromosomes 5,6, 11, 12 and 14, but especially number 5. (Figure 1)
Many different triggers are associated with asthma, most commonly when airborne irritants such as pet dander, cigarette smoke, plant pollen and mold spores (and even fecal matter from dust mites and cockroaches), signal a hyperresponsiveness in the airway, in form of special mast cells. (Figure 2& 3) This is Inflammation, the f .....
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Treatments Of Alcoholism
Words: 1821 - Pages: 7.... stop drinking and refrain from abusing alcohol in the future. The paths to
this goal are diverse. Several factors - biological, social and psychological -
influence why an individual becomes an alcoholic. So treatments vary, depending
upon why the alcoholic drinks and what the physician or therapist believes is
the best method for recovery. Some treatments focus on the physical addiction
of alcoholism. Others emphasize the alcoholic's social or psychological
cravings.
Alcoholics Anonymous and Rational Recovery are two support groups that help
alcoholics recover. Other alcoholics benefit from one-on-one therapy with
coun .....
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Two Brains?
Words: 1112 - Pages: 5.... 15 percent of the population
that is left-handed) and, in essence, is logical analytical, judgemental and
verbal. It's interested in the bottom line, in being efficent. The right brain
controls the left side of the body and leans more to the creative, the intuitive.
It is concerned more with the visual and emotional side of life.
Most people, if they thought about it, would identify more with their
left brain. In fact, many of us think we are our left brains. All of that non-
stop verbalization that goes on in our heads is the dominant left brain talking
to itself. Our culture- particularly our school system with its emphasis .....
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Treating Diabetes With Transplanted Cells
Words: 1248 - Pages: 5.... a cure. Patients can get
potentially fatal diabetes-related disorders. These include blindness and, or
kidney failure. Atherososclerosis, numbness and pain in extremities caused by
narrowed vessicles, may also be a problem. These effects are caused because
insulin injections can't perfectly mimic naturally made insulin.
That's why a therapy that maintains glucose values within normal from
the begging is needed. An ideal treatment would be the implantation of islets.
This, in theory, would only have to be done once and would insure proper insulin
production. Successful grafts would also prevent diabete-related ills.
At Paul .....
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Brain Transplant
Words: 473 - Pages: 2.... It would be almost impossible to reconnect every single neuron, and
without them a person could not function normally. Many psychological effects
are also possible because the human brain is so complex. Our brain makes us who
we are, and with a different brain we would no longer be unique. A person with
a different brain would seem to be a total stranger and in many ways they would
be. Hopefully these dangerous side effects will convince doctors not to perform
this procedure on humans.
The advancement of technology can be very beneficial to everyone, but I
do not believe that this medical technology of brain transplants will he .....
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