Papers on Health and Medicine
Transplants And Diabetes
Words: 417 - Pages: 2.... somatostatin.
In their first experiment, outbred Wistar rats were injected with
increasing amounts of minced pancreas from unrelated donor rats for one
year while a control group was left untreated. Then both the treated and
control groups received injections of approximately 500-800 islets of
Langerhans from unrelated donors. Of the five treated animals, two
became clinically and biochemically permanently normal. Six months later,
Martin examined the cured rats and found intact, functioning islets
secreting all of their hormones, including insulin. None of the controls
were cured.
Encouraged by their first results, Leibel, Martin, and Z .....
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Teen Drug Use In The United States
Words: 1314 - Pages: 5.... towards addiction. No matter what type of drug an adolescent may use, depending on the drug’s nature, can really effect the individual in many different and unique ways.
Depressants for instance, as well as stimulants, effect the central nervous system and the brain by blocking the nervous tissue. Some common depressants include any type of sleeping medication, anti-depressants, marijuana, and inhalants. These drugs are known to relax you. They put you in a mild comfortable stage of euphoria. Stimulants may include anything from cocaine to any sort of amphetamines; and to a much lesser degree, caffeine as well as nicotine. These ty .....
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Should Abortion Be Supported?
Words: 914 - Pages: 4.... we were all to practice high sexual morality, there would be fewer teenage pregnancies, illegitimate babies, and consequently no need for abortion clinics in our country. However, some special cases might still existed. For instance, a fetus may have a high chance of being born mentally ill, with a handicap, blind, or AIDS. In such cases, according to utilitarianism by which to produce the greatest happiness to the greatest number, then people should have the right to have abortion because it will cause both emotional and economical burden to the parents. Because of the new invention and technology, we are able to find out the worse fet .....
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Teen Smoking
Words: 276 - Pages: 2.... a large percentage of teens today are getting
their cigarettes from stores, mostly gas stations or convenience store. As
teens continue to be able to buy their own cigarettes, more and more communities
begin to impose stronger punishments on merchants who sell to the teens.
One community has experienced success in their attempts to stop the sale
of tobacco products to minors. Woodridge, Illinois, started a program seven
years ago which forbade and strictly punished the sale of tobacco products to
minors. The entire program includes local licensing of vendors, repeated
undercover inspections to see if the sale to minors has stopped, and .....
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Cigarette Smokers Are Bad For Nonsmokers
Words: 377 - Pages: 2.... smell of smoke is horrible and I could never live with someone that
smokes.
Cigarette smoke is not only annoying it also damages the heart and
lungs and is killing about 3000 Canadians per year. If some one gets cancer
in the lungs that person is most likely to pass away because there is no
cure for the lung cancer right now. If you are living with a smoker you
have a twenty five percent chance of dying from a heart attack. It even
hurts children by giving them bronchitis, asthma and ear aches. There are
about 45 gasses, liquids and metals that cause cancer in the smog.
Smoking costs a lot of money for the people in Canada. It costs th .....
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Anabolic Steroids
Words: 1685 - Pages: 7.... is to increase the number
of red blood cells and muscle tissue without producing much of the androgenic
effects of testosterone. There are only four legal uses for steroids treatment
for certain forms of cancer, pituatary dwarfism, and serious hormone
disturbances.
There are two forms of anabolic steroids those taken orally and those
injected. The immediate effects of both are mood swings of many different kinds.
In one study, physicians Ian Wilson, Arthur Prang, Jr., and Patricio Lara found
that four out of five men suffering from dippresion when given a steroid
suffered from dillusions. A research team from Great Britian Found th .....
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The Psychological Effects Of Using Steroids
Words: 1169 - Pages: 5.... Steroids, also known as "juice", are a synthetic version of the hormone testosterone. When taken, either orally or injected, these synthetic steroids fool the body into thinking that testosterone is being produced and therefore the body shuts down functions involving testosterone (Mishra 2). Given the right training stimulus and diet, these steroids enables the user to process protein into muscle fibers at astonishing rates, creating increased muscle size and strength with a drop in body fat (due to an increase in metabolic rate) . They are, in effect, the chemical essence of manliness, physical power and masculine aggression (Nichol .....
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Human Subconcious
Words: 1279 - Pages: 5.... conflicts, crimes and other problems occur very
often. We don't really realize it but most of these problems are due to our
lack of understanding each other and even ourselves... In this sense, we
could say that humans are not aware of their own blindness. To prove this
I'll be analyzing two books we read (Sphere & The Left Hand of Darkness)
and a movie we saw (Enemy Mine) trying to see what kind of ideas each story
shows about human nature.
In a first place, Sphere tries to emphasize the idea that most of us tend
to ignore our subconscious. We all had a fear, an idea or a dream that we
don't want to talk about. Sometimes it could be st .....
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Cystic Fibrosis
Words: 962 - Pages: 4.... performing autopsies on infected children. She had also named the genetic defect. Those were destruction of pancreas, damage to lungs and infections in lungs. By the 1940’s scientists discovered that thick secretions, which blocked digestive enzymes from the pancreas, were clogging the ductile systems and passageways. Which caused the ineffectiveness of the digestive track. The mucus is what trapped the infectious bacteria in the lungs.1946 scientists discovered that CF was a recessive trait caused by a mutation of a single gene. They also found out that about 5% of Americans are asymptotic carriers. Meaning they don’t show the disease .....
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Artificial Contraceptives
Words: 1480 - Pages: 6.... tiny metal or plastic loops or coils that are placed in the uterus. They have an effectiveness of 95-99%(Funk & Wagnall’s, pg.98). A physician must insert IUD’s, but they can remain there until it is desired to be removed for a pregnancy. Although they sound ideal, some women have experienced uterine cramps and increased menstrual flow when using an IUD. (Billings, pg.63) in fact, some devices increase the risk of pelvic infection(Funk & Wagnall’s, pg.98). Further, in Perry and Dawson’s book, Nightmare, they proclaim the dangers of IUDs. They focus, especially, on the Dalkon Shield IUD; an IUD described as “the safes .....
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