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- 9931: Prozac: Harmful or Helpful?
- ... Attention 1). Psychiatric drugs should be prescribed by psychiatric doctors. The percentage of people wrongly taking antidepressants would drop along with the number of serious adverse reactions. Prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death in America. Every year approximately 200,000 people die from prescription drug reactions and anther 80,000 die from medical malpractice. You have a seven times greater chance of dying walking into your doctors ...
- 9932: Asthma
- ... In conclusion, deaths do result from asthma, in fact the mortality rate for asthma has not significantly changed in many years and still claims approximately 1 percent of all hospitalizations for acute asthma. The overall death rate is extremely low. Asthma in Families Percentage of offspring Both Parents - 50% One Parent - 25% Neither Parents - less than 10%
- 9933: The Dangers of Smoking
- The Dangers of Smoking We know what it is, see it every day, and disregard it as of no consequence. It is smoking, the single most preventable cause of premature death in the United States. In fact, approximately 400, 000 Americans die per year from smoking ciggerettes. Smoking is obviously dangerous but there are ways in which it could possibly be reduced. Both men and women ...
- 9934: Teen Drug Use in the United States
- ... purpose of using drugs. When the person continues to use drugs persistently; depression as well as lowered self worth occurs. If the individual continues to use it can usually lead to being institutionalized and/or death.
- 9935: Homeopathic Remedies
- ... person's joints. All patient's taking the substance in a controlled study improved while all those receiving the placebo worsened. The effects of Homeopathic remedies on cases of acute diarrhea, the leading cause of death in children worldwide. Eighty-one Nicaraguan children were tested. All received the typical treatment, while half also received individualized homeopathic treatment. Those who received the homeopathic treatment recovered much more quickly than those who had ...
- 9936: AIDS Esssay
- ... over today's world. AIDS will continue to remind the people of today's world that it is lurking out in the open. The moral issues of AIDS have brought this world to its fate, death. If we continue to let the moral issues eat away at the world, we will let the chance of finding a cure slip through door. There is no way out of the moral issues but ...
- 9937: The Molecular Biology Of Cystic Fibrosis
- ... no longer move it. This leads to supradded infections. Progressive airway obstruction and inflammation causes hypoxia, a reduced lung vital capacity, and eventually over months or years hypercapnia (chronic respiratory failure) which usually leads to death (CF Foundation 1). THE BIOCHEMISTRY OF CYSTIC FIBROSIS It has been mentioned that the basic defect in cystic fibrosis is due to abnormalities in the secretions of the exocrine glands. These glands all produce a ...
- 9938: Addiction and Heath Professionals
- ... 1992). One statistic that has been proven is that anesthesiologists appear to be at highest risk for developing an addiction (Collins, 1998). This is because they have ready access to drugs, often experience life-and-death decisions, and have long hours. Fentanyl, a drug twenty to thirty times more potent than morphine, is the most popular drug abused by anesthesiologists (Coombs, 1997). To give an ideal of the prevalence of drug ...
- 9939: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
- ... which may develop in the unborn child when the mother consumes alcohol during the course of her pregnancy" (88). This can be a very dangerous situation having symptoms that last a lifetime, sometimes leading to death. Although some researchers argue that there is a safe drinking limit while pregnant, abstinence of alcohol is best because innocent babies are being born with mental and physical handicaps due to fetal alcohol syndrome. Fetal ...
- 9940: Heart Attacks and Its Causes
- Heart Attacks and Its Causes For years, heart attacks have struck fear into the eyes of Americans. All cardiovascular diseases together are the widest cause of death in the country, with heart attacks alone accounting for about twenty-three percent of all fatalities (Staff,1997). Doctors have tried to reduce this risk over time by advising patients about lowering cholesterol levels, for ...
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