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Bacteria
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 736.... of causing diseases is tooth decay and ulcers. Tooth decay leads to cavities, which means is arises the film on our teeth. People with diets high in sugar have a higher chance of getting tooth decay or cavities. The sugar us turned into lactic acid, the acid leads to a lost of calcium and if followed by the breaking down of the tooth.
Scientists have found that most stomach ulcers are the result of l infection. Many of us once believed that stress was the caused of ulcers. It is possible that the stressful environment helps the ’s growth.
Each species of pathogenic has a di .....
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Abortion
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 629.... chance of getting pregnant, even if she uses protection. If she doesn't want to get pregnant she shouldn't have sex, and she should be responsible enough to suffer the consequences. For example, Carrie is very promiscuous and finds out that she is pregnant, so she goes and has an . Next time Carrie finds out that she has HIV, well she can't pay someone to get rid of her problem so she has to deal with it. Why shouldn't she have to deal with the fact of being pregnant? There are many other options to killing an innocent human: adoption or raising the child with the help of .....
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Necrotizing Fasciitis/Myosits (Flesh Eating Disease)
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 565.... the disease spreads into the
muscle tissue, it is called Necrotizing Myositis.
Background
The first record of the disease was in France in 1783. The disease
occurred throughout the 1800's and 1900's, but was usually only found in
military hospitals in times of war. Some outbreaks have occurred also in
civilian populations. There seemed to be some decrease in the 1940's, and
then another outbreak in the 1980's.
Ontario is the only province in Canada where there is statistics on
serious group a streptococcal infections (including necrotizing fasciitis).
These .....
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Issues To Consider In Deaf And Hard-Of-Hearing Patients
Number of pages: 10 | Number of words: 2518.... and sources of further information. Guidelines for assessment of deaf and hard-of-hearing patients are provided in Table 1. Table 2 provides suggestions for conducting interviews with these patients.
Illustrative Case
A 60-year-old deaf woman, a native user of American Sign Language, presented as a new referral. During visits with her previous physician, she had always communicated by using her daughter as an interpreter. The referral physician arranged for a certified interpreter and then called the new patient (using the state's relay service) to inform her that an i .....
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U Of T Professors Devise Better Way To Test Sight In Babies
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 547.... more
sensitive than methods previously available, " says Skarf.
At the HSC, VEP's are used in a number of clinical applications: to
determine whether a visual problem is cognitive; to assess whether babies
who don't appear to see well will see better in the future; to determine a
course of treatment for such problems in which one eye turns in or is
weaker than the other eye. The second aspect of the researchers' work
involves the development of a stimulator for stereopsis, or binocular
vision, which is the fusing of images from both eyes into one picture that
has depth. "The .....
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Euthanasia
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1913.... killing. Euthanasia cheapens life,
even more so than the very divisive issue of abortion. Euthanasia is morally
and ethically wrong and should be banned in these United States. Modern
medicine has evolved by leaps and bounds recently, euthanasia resets these
medical advances back by years and reduces today's Medical Doctors to
administrators of death.
Euthanasia defined
The term Euthanasia is used generally to refer to an easy or painless
death. Voluntary euthanasia involves a request by the dying patient or that
person's legal representative. Passive or negati .....
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The Effects Of Alcohol On People
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 2158.... and
as an intoxicant. (History of Alcohol , page 1)
Alcohol has played a significant role in religious backgrounds and
ceremonies in the past. In Greece there was a god of wine which was named
Bacchus. The Romans drank vast amounts of wine and other alcoholic
beverages. Wine and beer both have a very long background and or history.
Alcohol was used to supposedly relieve stress and the drudgery of day to
day life. (History of Alcohol , page1)
Gin houses used advertisements like " drinkers can drink for a
penny and get dead drunk for two pence " to lure in alcoholics or dri .....
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Euthanasia Term Paper
Number of pages: 12 | Number of words: 3093.... relative , to put them to death. The patients
or their relatives may ask a doctor to withhold treatment and let them die.
Many critics of the medical profession contend that too often doctors play
god on operating tables and in recovery rooms. They argue that no doctor
should be allowed to decide who lives and who dies.
The issue of euthanasia is having a tremendous impact on medicine in
the United States today. It was only in the nineteenth century that the
word came to be used in the sense of speeding up the process of dying and
the destruction of so-called useless .....
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