... smoking take it seriously. Stop them before it's too late. Teaching of the effects of cigarette smoking is a must. Tell them that about 400,00 Americans die every year because of health problems due to smoking. The second part of prevention takes place in our government. Stricter fines for sales to minors would help out allot. If there were also laws about underage smoking in public more teens would think twice about smoking. In the end all of this would help deplete the smoking population. Once a teen is addicted, at such a young age breaking the addiction is more difficult. Teenagers are adolescents and their minds are still developing. The task of brea ...

... are no longer in use. Some of them were ineffective at best, some of them could be downright deadly. We have better technology today (tons better). Now you might be asking about the different types of birth control. The forms of birth control that have been used over the years and currently include pesssaries, plants, condoms, and birth control pills. While there have been others it is best that we not discuss them here(trust me you don't want to know). Pessaries are vaginal suppositories. Used from ancient times to the present, they can be a fairly effective form of birth control. In ancient times, pessaries often contained acacia gum, which, while having so ...

... struggle with addiction. This has heightened the general public’s awareness of a problem that does exist within the field. This realization has led the American Medical Association to take active and preventive measures toward drug use as well as state medical boards (Mansky, 1996). The American with Disabilities Act protects the drug impaired health professional through recovery and back into his/her job. The problem concerning addicted health professionals seems to affect the public as most of us seek healthcare at one time or another in our lifetimes. First, the definition of impairment must be addressed. According to the American Medical Association’s Co ...

... which is characterized by a variety of physical and behavioral traits that result from maternal alcohol consumption during pregnancy. The term Fetal Alcohol Effects, FAE, indicates that alcohol is being considered as one of the possible causes of a patient's birth defects. In other words, FAE is a less severe form of FAS. Both FAS and FAE are the results of the use of teratogens, which are nongenetic influences that can potentially complicate fetal development.(Harris, p.85) FAS is due to the mother's consumption of alcohol during pregnancy. Alcohol in the woman's bloodstream circulates to the fetus via the placenta. There, the alcohol intrudes with the abil ...

... problems", striking the rich and the poor as well as the young and the old (Rosenfeld, 1999). Experts think a genetic vulnerability combined with environmental factors may activate an imbalance in brain chemicals called neurotransmitters (Mental Health). seems to run in families and can be brought on by stress or physical illness. Having a family history of increases your risk of developing the condition. Researchers have identified several genes involved in bipolar . But not everybody with a family history of will develop the disorder. Your genes may have predisposed you to be at a certain point on the happiness- scale, just as other genes may ...

... different water temperature and pressure to help heal many things such as sprains, headaches, and even pneumonia. It is usually accompanied by massage, and used often in sports. Imagery is a type of therapy in which the patient imagines that they are being healed, and before long, they will feel better. For example, if a patient had a bad sunburn on their back, they could imagine that a block of ice was melting inside their neck and dripping down the back. Within minutes, the pain should be gone. Imagery can also include sounds, tastes, and smells. (Nash,1996:45) The list of alternative therapies goes on and on. For every disease known to mankind, there is pro ...

... the disease. The sweat glands are affected in a different way. They produce sweat that has an abnormally high salt content. Cystic fibrosis is due to an inborn error of metabolism that is inherited as a recessive trait. In families where both parents ae carriers, approximately 25% of all the offspring will have the diswase, although the incidence may vary from one family to the next. The disease is relatively common to Caucasions, usually among Negroes, and very rare in Mongolians. In the United States, about 1 in every 2000 children is born with the disease, and 5% of the population are carriers. In the days before antibiotics, patients succumbed to broncho ...

... The word yoga is derived from the Sanskirt word yuj, which means to bind together or unite (Eliade 519). The God in yoga, known as Ishvara, does not resemble the god known to Christians, Jews, or Muslims. The god is not a creator of the world or of mankind. He does not sit in judgment of mankind, nor does he punish them for their sins. Rather the god of yoga is "a special person untouched by misery, desire, or action and its results... He is the teacher of the ancient teachers" (Nikhilananda 680). The goal of the yogi, one who studies yoga, is to reach the state of pure intelligence, which is the soul's true essence, by suppressing all other mental activities ...

... is immune to from AIDS. Until a vaccine and cure is discovered for AIDS, the numbers will increase and people will keep dying. Therefore it is of vital importance to educate people about AIDS and to promote safer sex. The key word now is prevention. Among many proposed policies to help prevent AIDS infection, one of the most controversial is mandatory AIDS testing. Mandatory AIDS testing is theoretically very effective, however, when it is applied, it is not practical at all because one is dealing with human nature, the odd nature of the virus itself, and also all of the stigmas that are attached to AIDS. Therefore, not only will mandatory AIDS testing not pre ...

... He found many examples of consumption-crazy Britons who had ran up huge bills and driven their family into oppressive debt. Another thing he found out was that their shopping was used as a therapy to give their mood a lift. They got their support from shop assis-tants. This may be one way of buying social support. Shopaholics Shopaholics is becoming a more and more frequently known disease. It is not only found in the US, but all over the world including Denmark. In Britain a nation wide survey revealed that addicts will stop at nothing to found their desire to spend money. They will do anything from stealing to prosti-tution. One out of 20 adults is fou ...