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Femoral Hernia
291 Words - 2 Pages.... a body wall allows part of the organ or tissue to bulge through. Hernias may
develop in almost any area of the body, but they most frequently occur in the
abdomen or groin. Hernias are commonly called "ruptures," but this is a
misnomer, as nothing is torn or ruptured. Hernias can be present from birth
(congenital) or can be caused by stress and/or strain.
A femoral hernia is just one of many different types of hernias. They
occur when a part of the intestine protrudes into the femoral canal. The
femoral canal is the tubular passageway that carries blood vessels and nerves
from the abdomen into the thigh. Femoral hernias occurs most commonly in women.
This condition can ....
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Cigarette Smoking
716 Words - 3 Pages.... because second-hand smoke will endanger non-smokers health
and it pollutes the enviroment.
Smokers feel they have had the right to smoke in a public place for so
long that it should not be taken away. Resturants and businesses should be
allowed to set their own smoking rules, based on demands of the customers.
Also business may decrease if they do not allow smokers the right to smoke,
ecspecially bars and restaurants. The work place is another problem for
smokers, now they have to go outside even in the winter to have a cigarette,
even though they used to be able to smoke inside.A strong supporter on
smokers rights is Democratic Assemblyman Dick Floyd, who wanted to vote ....
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Abortion Should Be Made Illegal
844 Words - 4 Pages.... is far more than mere fetal tissue. He inspired King David to write:
"Your eyes saw even the embryo of me, and in your book all its parts were down
in writing." (Young 25-27) The bible (Exodus 21:22, 23) has clearly stated
that a person would be held accountable for hurting an unborn baby. (Young 25-
27) Take this for example; Say a woman is walking down the street carrying a
child in her arms. Another woman is walking down that same street carrying a
child, only this woman is carrying the child in her. Both children are
dependent on their mothers, both just dependent in different ways. (Schwarz 35)
Take another example "Suppose a woman suffers a miscarriage, A ....
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Can Genetics Cause Crime?
893 Words - 4 Pages.... that about one in every 27
black men, compared to one in every 205 white men, died violently also 1 in 117
black women met a untimely end as compared to white women which only 1 in 496
were killed due to violent crimes. This is not surprising that young males
commit most of the serious crimes. According to an article in Scientific
American, only 12.5 percent of violent crime in the U.S. in 1992 was committed
by females. What is also surprising according to W.W. Gibbs the author of
"Seeking the Criminal Element," in Scientific American,(1995 March) pp 100-107,
is that a very small number of criminals are responsible for the majority of the
violent crime.
Sullivan who is n ....
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Breach Of Confidentiality: The Legal Implications When You Are Seeking Therapy
1866 Words - 7 Pages.... Consequently it is very difficult for any person to establish a
trusting relationship with their therapist, because they fear, that the
therapist might reveal their most personal information and emotions to others.
Health professionals therefore created the patients bill of rights to install
confidence between clients and therapists. The patient has a right to every
consideration of privacy concerning his own medical care program. Case
discussion, consultation, examination, and treatment are confidential and should
be conducted discreetly. Those not directly involved in his care must have the
permission of the patient to be present. The patient has the right to expect
that ....
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Abilities Of People With Disabilities
702 Words - 3 Pages.... attitude." One way to show the effects of discrimination of people with
disabilities in the workplace is to show ways people with disabilities are
discriminated against and to show what is being done to stop this raping of
the human heart.
Got a weight problem? Sure, there are a lot of diets you could try,
but why not exercise your right as a victim and strike back at
discriminatory employers? You might not lose any weight ,but at least you
can get the job you deserve. This is possible because of the courts and the
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission wants to extend protections under
the 1973 Rehabilitation Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act to
obe ....
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AIDS And Its History
1967 Words - 8 Pages.... infection become wrongly programmed and start killing themselves they are not killed by the virus, as had been thought.
But Duesberg, professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California at Berkeley and a member of the American National Academy of Sciences, goes further. HIV is not a new virus, he says. It is perhaps "as old as America". It is carried by a small, fairly constant proportion of the population and is harmless.
It is present in many AIDS patients because most of them have risk factors in their lives such as drug abuse, sexual behavior or other shocks to the system that expose them to many microbes.
AIDS is therefore not infectious, Duesberg ....
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Seasonal Affective Disorder
1047 Words - 4 Pages.... in the winters and left in the spring.
Over the course of years the woman moved from city to city. Mueller noticed,
that the farther north she moved the early the depression. Mueller had begun to
speculate that the lack of sunlight had contributed to the women’s depression.
In order to confirm this he exposed the patient to artificial sunlight. He
found that over a period of time the patient had recovered from the depression.
Today light therapy is the most commonly used method in treating SAD.
The two hormones that are affected by the sunlight, and are thought to be
the cause of SAD, are melatonin and serotonin. Both of these chemicals “are
influenced by phot ....
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