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- 9981: The Immune System
- ... take faster and better action against it. There are many disorders that disrupt the immune system's operations. The most serious are the disorders called immunodeficiency diseases, such as AIDS. These diseases can lead to death. Immunodeficiency diseases are among the most severe disorders of the immune system. People afflicted with such conditions lack some basic feature or function of their immune system. As a result, their immune system fails to ...
- 9982: Steroids
- ... the use of them. In 1988, Congress passed what is known as the Anti-Drug Abuse Act. This act made the distribution or possession of anabolic steroid for non-medical reasons a Federal offense. The penalty for distribution to minors is a prison offense. In 1990, Congress made the laws even stricter, and classified anabolic steroids as a controlled substance. The law also increased penalties for steroids use and shipping. To ...
- 9983: Smoking Tobacco
- Smoking Tobacco Drugs are generally recognized as of the greatest problems in the United States. According to the statistics, tobacco has the highest death rate. Smoking is a very popular habit, even though we all know that smoking is very dangerous. Millions of people around the globe want to quit smoking for medical reasons such as having already two ...
- 9984: Skin Cancer
- ... need serious attention. The American Cancer Society estimates that over 850,000 cases of skin cancer will occur in the United States during 1996. Of those cases, they predict that 9,430 will end in death (4., p 1). Apparently, Americans still do not have an adequate amount of prevention information to help reduce the disfigurement and mortality from this cancer. Exposure to the ultraviolet radiation from the sun is the ...
- 9985: Safe Sex vs. Unsafe Sex
- ... rules for "safe sex". These rules are very strict, and will be found quite objectionable by most of us who have previously enjoyed unrestricted sex. But to violate these rules is to risk unusually horrible death. Once one gets used to them the rule for "safe sex" do allow for quite acceptable sexual enjoyment in most cases. Note that even when one is conscientiously following the recommendations for safe sex, accidents ...
- 9986: Premature Infancy
- ... twentieth and thirty-eighth week. Almost 250,000 babies, nearly seven percent of newborns, are premature(Golant 4). Prematurity, even with all the advances in technology, is still a major cause of fetal and neonatal death. Actually, around seventy- five percent of perinatal deaths are due to a number of problems associated with prematurity(Freeman 232). Premature babies are very weak and defenseless, and need to be hospitalized. One reason for ...
- 9987: The Dawn of a New Age: PCP
- ... the neuron" (Haberstadt, 1995). In other words, they excite the neuron by allowing charged ions to enter it. As said before, however, too much of these neurotransmitters would kill the neuron by exciting it to death. As a matter of fact, this is the principle damaging factor in stroke patients (Restak, 1994). When a neuron dies, it releases copious amounts of amino acid neurotransmitters which then kill other brain cells through ...
- 9988: Marijuana As A Medicine
- ... medical uses. Other illegal drugs such as cocaine and heroin are classified as Schedule II, even though they are considered habit forming and dangerous, where marijuana, classified as a Schedule I, has never caused a death or overdose and is not considered addictive. The federal government refuses to reclassify marijuana because there is no proof that smoked marijuana is the most effective available treatment for anything. (McCaffrey 27) There can be ...
- 9989: Medical Miracles on the Horizon
- ... diabetes, and others may be eliminated. Physicians and scientists are even showing some hope for a future cure for AIDS, a terrifying and rapidly spreading disease that is now in the top ten causes of death. Another field of medicine that will be extremely vital in the next era is that of geriatrics. As life expectancy continues to rise and our society continues to age, the field will undoubtably become one ...
- 9990: Leukemia
- ... inheritance has been shown to be a factor in the incidences of leukemia and sometimes it is seen accompanying birth defects (Altman and Sarg 154). With the problems that surround leukemia and the probability of death there are ways to treat it. Most of these treatments have only developed recently and are still undergoing testing. But a few drugs have been shown to produce a state in which the patients shows ...
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