... sexually active as a result of increased condom availability. Therefore, representatives of the study are asking, along with the Board of Education, to continue to supply funds to the programs. During the 1980s, Urban Institute researchers at the University of Illinois found that, [efforts have increased to alert the public to the dangers of HIV, other sexually transmitted diseases, and unintended pregnancy, yet these problems have increased.]2 Adolescents and young adults have been especially hit hard. In addition, [among all sexually active people, teenagers have the highest rates of sexually transmitted diseases of any age group.]2 Faced with the magnit ...
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... breast cancer, particularly in China and Japan. The fourth on the list is colon or rectum cancer, a disease that mainly strikes the elderly. In the United States in the mid-1980s, more than one-fifth of all deaths were caused by cancer; only the cardiovascular diseases accounted for a higher percentage. In 1990 the American Cancer Society predicted that about 30 percent of Americans will eventually develop some form of the disease. In the United States skin cancer is the most prevalent cancer in both men and women. Lung cancer, however, causes the most deaths in both men and women. LEUKEMIA, or cancer of the blood, is the most common type seen in children. ...
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... and despair that can become feelings of hopelessness and helplessness. Some of the symptoms of a depressive episode include anhedonia, disturbances in sleep and appetite, psycomoter retardation, loss of energy, feelings of worthlessness, guilt, difficulty thinking, indecision, and recurrent thoughts of death and suicide (Hollandsworth, Jr. 1990 ). The manic episodes are characterized by elevated or irritable mood, increased energy, decreased need for sleep, poor judgment and insight, and often reckless or irresponsible behavior (Hollandsworth, Jr. 1990 ). Bipolar affective disorder affects approximately one percent of the population (approximately three million p ...
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... corpus luteum deteriorates causing uterine contraction to expell the endometrium. However, if the egg is fertilized the level of estrogen and progesterone must remain high so the endometrium is not shed. The outer layer of the egg mass(blastocyct) produces a hormone(HCG) to maintain the corpus luteum for the first 3 months of pregnancy so it can provide high levels of estrogen and progesterone. After the third month the placenta provides enough estrogen and progesterone to maintain the endometrium and also to inhibit further ovulation. Conception is when the egg and the sperm meet in the oviduct to form the zygote. If the egg or the sperm have any chromosome abnor ...
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... therapy, a change in diet, and a regular exercise program. The current trend is for doctors to immediately prescribe Prozac before exploring the other treatment options. However, Prozac “was associated with more hospitalizations, deaths, or other serious adverse reactions reported to the FDA than any other drug in America” (qtd. in Freundlich 2). Eli Lilly Pharmaceutical Company created Prozac in 1974, but it wasn’t approved by the FDA until 1987. The first of the SSRIs, Prozac inhibits or blocks the recapture of the neurotransmitter serotonin by nerve cells (“Prozac” 2). This allows the serotonin to remain in the brain for a longer period of time creating a ...
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... own head. Nevertheless, when there are no limits on one’s sexual fantasies, sexuality, in my opinion, is liable to reach a perverse and oppressive state. I hope I am correct in saying that around the time of the seventeenth century, the society/state began to liberate itself from the church. Even still, sexual liberty was small, and a “non-ethical” (meaning non- conservative) discourse on sex was prohibited. This type of regard to sex was also true in the eighteenth century. By the nineteenth century, sexual propaganda was created and fed to the masses. One memorable time period that transformed society’s views on sex, was the feminist movement in the 60’s ...
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... another brain cell. The signal then returns to the first brain cell. The signal is called a neurotransmitter. One major neurotransmitter is called dopamine, which is involved in feelings of pleasure. When the drug is released into the brain, it blocks the dopamine from returning to the first brain cell. Repeated use changes the brain cells so that normal messages can't be sent between brain cells. The drug must always be present in order for neurotransmissions to take place. The user is only able to feel pleasure from the cocaine rather than the things he/she used to find pleasurable. This is called drug addiction or dependence. Drug Classification Drugs a ...
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... take care of the child. The child is usually malnourished, has no medical care, and gets very little attention or love. The foster care system isn't any better. Only a small percentage of the children are adopted by suitable parents. But the rest remain in the foster care system, where there is little or no personal care. In both cases, the child has a poor education because of the lack of attention and discipline. He grows up to be unproductive individual or a menace to society. Many get involved in drugs and crimes. These individuals are also very violent, lacking morality due small amount of care they received themselves. In the long run, not only does the c ...
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... PNP is an enzyme which takes out the sugar and nitrogenous substances out of the cells. It then divides the purine form of the sugar, making it independent and creating or destroying in order to build more molecules such as DNA. But PNP separates anti-cancer and other helpful agents , and destroys the therapy provided by those agents. The goal was to create a drug which could inactivate PNP until therapy for these agents were complete. A computer was used to create a model of the protein in order to understand each aspect of this model . the computers assessed the chemicals which could possibly fulfill the code of this protein, and begin fitting it into the ...
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... those affected are children under 18. Only in the past few years have scientists began to understand the causes and triggers of asthma, linking the disease to autosomal dominant genes on the chromosomes 5,6, 11, 12 and 14, but especially number 5. (Figure 1) Many different triggers are associated with asthma, most commonly when airborne irritants such as pet dander, cigarette smoke, plant pollen and mold spores (and even fecal matter from dust mites and cockroaches), signal a hyperresponsiveness in the airway, in form of special mast cells. (Figure 2& 3) This is Inflammation, the first of three stages of an asthma attack. These mast cells secrete histamin ...
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