.... of spring water" (Cowley 41). Gone are the days when the label "loony" is slapped upon a person taking these drugs. Antidepressants have become almost as commonplace as Tylenol. Prozac is being prescribed for much more than clinical depression. Some of the other illnesses that are treatable by Prozac include bulimia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and dysthymia, which is chronic low-grade depression. In some cases, it is even prescribed for anxiety or low self-esteem (Chisholm and Nichols 38). Part of the popularity of Prozac stems from declining health care. "As medical plans cut back on coverage for psychotherapy, says [Dr. Robert] Birnbaum of Boston's ....

.... increasing awareness of the dangers of eating disorders, sparked by medicall studies and extensive media coverage, has led many poeple to seek help. Nevertheless, some people with eating disorders refuse to admit that they have a problem and do not get treatment. Family and friends can help recognize the problem and encourage the person to seek treatment. Anorexia nervosa is a disorder where people intentionally starve themselves. It usually starts around the time of puberty and involves extreme weight loss. Sometimes they must be hospitalized to prevent starvation because food and weight become obsessions. For some, the compulsiveness shows up in strange eating rituals, so ....

.... rid the body of the food that was just eaten before it has a chance to digest. The typical pattern is to start by eating something like apple peels or corn. They are not easily digested. That is followed by mass quantities of junk food. Common foods that are used for bingeing are foods that can be obtained easily without much notice such as McDonalds or Kentucky Fried Chicken. These foods can be obtained by driving up to a window to order them. No one pays much attention to a person in a car who is ordering large quantities of food. After eating the person vomits or uses laxatives to get rid of the food. When they see the apple peel or corn leave the body they know th ....

.... to keep his medical condition from other people, even from his wife. Everything that is discussed in the doctor's office is confidential, therefore, the doctor has an obligation to every patient's privacy. But the husband can not ask the doctor to lie to the pilot's wife or ask the doctor to do something illegal as to prescribing her antibiotics that would also cure her gonorrhea. The doctor only can cure her for what he knows that she have. The doctor could suggest to wife that she should get a blood test done too as for a physical. But he will have to get consent testing for HIV. The only other thing the doctor can do is talk to he husband, to persuade him to tell h ....

.... doesn't take much for lung, throat, or skin cancer to develop from cancer. many of these cancers turn to be fatal for many people. If they are not fatal there will be something to remember them by, whether it be scars or an amputated part of your body. Active teenagers should also take into consideration how smoking can effect their performance. It decreases your lung capacity, causing you to breathe more heavily. Teenagers who smoke have been proven three times more likely to use alcohol, eight times more likely to use marijuana, and 22 times more likely to use cocaine. Among the many drugs used by people, marijuana is the most commonly used. People who use this dru ....

.... groups. We must all protect ourselves from this infection and teach our children about it in time to take effective precautions. Given the right measures, no one need get AIDS. The pandemic continues: ----------------------- Many of us have forgotten about the virulence of widespread epidemics, such as the 1917/18 influenza pandemic which killed over 21 million people, including 50,000 Canadians. Having been lulled into false security by modern antibiotics and vaccines about our ability to conquer infections, the Western world was ill prepared to cope with the advent of AIDS in 1981. (Retro- spective studies now put the first reported U.S. case of AIDS as far back as 1968.) ....

.... up to 100 years ago."(Kelly 524). It is said that the virus stayed mainly in this closed society until many years later. Many say the disease spread when international travel began to increase. The HIV and AIDS viruses were believed to arrive in the United States sometime during the nineteen seventies. It was a common disease between gay males and intravenous drug abusers. Now it is well known that the viruses have been transmitted through sexually, occasionally through blood and organ transplants. The acronym HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus, where as the acronym AIDS stands for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. When someone has contracted the HIV vi ....

.... A person with cystic fibrosis receives one cystic fibrosis gene from each parent. The parents of a child, with cystic fibrosis, each carry one nonworking copy of the gene and one working copy of the gene. The parents are called cystic fibrosis carriers, and because they have one working gene they have no symptoms. Carrier parents have 1:4 chance to have a child who is a noncarrier of cystic fibrosis, a 1:2 chance to have a child who carries the gene, and a 1:4 chance with each pregnancy to have an affected child. If you have a son or daughter with cystic fibrosis, then you have a 1:1 chance of being a carrier. If you have a brother or sister with CF, you have a 2:3 ....