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Hemophilia
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 733.... reported that one in ten thousand males get A. It has been calculated that worldwide there are approximately 350,000 people with severe or moderate , although B is 5 times less common that A. All races, religions, and economic groups are affected by .
is a bleeding disorder which is inherited genetically. Due to the pattern of inheritance, the disorder generally affects males only. About one third of cases come with a previous family history. Women with a hemophilic gene are called carriers while men are either cs or normal. A daughter of a mother who is a carrier a .....
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Teen Suicide
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 578.... aware of the following signs of adolescents
who may try to kill themselves. Child and adolescent psychiatrists
recommend that if one or more of these signs occurs, parents need to talk
to their child about their concerns and seek professional help when the
concerns persist.
Teen suicide leaves behind an unceasing wake of questions. Parents,
friends, and classmates all ask in endless echo-WHY? Everyone tries to
make sense of it. But no sense can be made. All questions. No answers.
Just the cold, haunting specter of senseless death. Psychological studies
have discovered a nu .....
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Bulimia
Number of pages: 1 | Number of words: 158.... but is observed in older women and men also. People with are often obsessed with food and self gratification, and the disorder frequently accompanies Anorexia Nervosa.
Such behavior stems from psychological difficulties involving a compulsive desire for perfection, poor self-image, and stressful familt relationships; depression is also common. Research in the late 1980's says that itselg, however, may be caused by impaired secretion of a hormone, chlecystokinin (CCK), that normally induces a feeling of fullness after a meal.
Severe medical problems can result from nerv .....
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Epidemiology Of Varsity Sports
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1296.... Track and Field, Men's Soccer, and
Wrestling, and Women's Field Hockey.
BASKETBALL
The study of the nature and extent of athletic injuries Occuring in
Women's Basketball by Hanes and Murray in 1982 found an injury rate of 41.7 per
100 players. Of these injuries 56.9% were ankle sprains, 24.1% were muscle
strains. 76.2% of the sprains and strains occurred to the lower extremities.
Injured fingers ( which were the only upper extremity injuries) accounted for
14.3% of the injuries and 4.8% of the injuries were reported as facial.
All information for this study was c .....
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Euthanasia
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 419.... heart- lung machines can augment the duration of
life.
Well some say that life is precious, HOW IS LIFE PRECIOUS, WHEN IT CAN
NOT BE LIVED TO THE FULLEST ?.
I believe that Euthanasia should be legalized because of that option
of dying. People say that their should be a option to live, but I think
that there should also be a option to die. Many also think that they should
stay alive because they don't want death for their own reason. Why not put
them out of there misery, if the pain that one goes through is excruciating
why not let them die.
Many states have .....
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Abortion: Life Or Death Who Chooses?
Number of pages: 17 | Number of words: 4436.... of a
bygone Century? It is an incontrovertible fact of biological science - Make no
Mistake - that from the moment of conception, a new human life has been created.
Only those who allow their emotional passion to overide their knowledge,
can deny it: only those who are irrational or ignorant of science, doubt that
when a human sperm fertilizes a human ovum a new human being is created. A new
human being who carries genes in its cells that make that human being uniquely
different from any and other human being and yet, undeniably a member, as we all
are, of the great human .....
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Cholera
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 597.... ills and
feastering guerilla insurgency, is now plagued by an epidemic of Cholera.
As of February 25, 1991, the disease had claimed 90 lives and infected at
least 14,000 people. It is the first major outbreak of Cholera in the
western hemisphere since early in this century. In Peru, local authorities
have moved quickly to stem the epidemic, which is spread by poor hygiene
and contaminated water, raw food, and fish. To avoid spreading, health
officials in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Chile, have prohibited the importation
of uncooked Peruvian food products. Coastal waters ha .....
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What Is Euthanasia?
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 2179.... for the following reasons: The first
reason is that an advanced terminal illness is causing unbearable suffering
to the individual. This suffering is the most common reason to seek an
early end. Second, a grave physical handicap exists that is so restricting
that the individual cannot, even after due care, counseling, and re-
training, tolerate such a limited existence. This handicap is a fairly rare
reason for suicide; most impaired people cope remarkably well with their
affliction, but there are some who would, at a certain point, rather die.
We say that there is a sec .....
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