The school system has a policy prohibiting "performance enhancing drugs" unless medically indicated. ... The distinction between treatment, and enhancement is quite difficult to discern as to what category falls outside the realm of medicine's responsibilities. ... Given the present situation in United States, where there is not even universal access to treatment, the chance of universal access to enhancements is implausible. Nonetheless, I question, why shouldn't new science and medical technology offer a better life for only the privileged? ... Flicted, growth hormone wi...

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The legalization of medical marijuana is a very controversial topic. ... Marijuana can be a drug of necessity in the treatment of AIDS, glaucoma, cancer and multiple sclerosis". ... Cancer patients use marijuana to alleviate the severe nausea that often accompanies chemotherapy and sometimes makes lifesaving treatment impossible. ... Drug Enforcement Agency Director Asa Hutchinson states, "We all have sympathy for folks that need medication, but we have to listen to the scientific and medical community, and they're saying that marijuana has no legitimate medical purpose" (Health Organ...

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This flexibility makes them extremely interesting to researchers who realized the potential advances in medical treatment in the future. ... Stem cells ability to become any type of cell makes them perfect for a wide range of medical uses. ... Cloning technology may someday be able to give "re-booted" immune systems offering new treatments for various diseases. The idea is to help the patient grow new cells and tissues using his or her own cells leading to "grow your own" transplants and other treatments. ... Members of the medical community continue to debate what should and shouldn'...

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The government should change marijuana's status from that of a Schedule 1 drug (considered to be potentially addictive and with no current medical use) to that of a Schedule 2 drug (potentially addictive but with some accepted medical use) and regulate it accordingly" (Kassirer). ... Coleman accepted some of the medical benefits but he still proceeded to disagree with the facts about its help with the release of some cancer symptoms. ... "Marijuana is also a powerful appetite stimulant, specifically for patients suffering from HIV, the AIDS wasting syndrome, or dementia" (Medical Use)....

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Through revived tactics and theory of the mind-body connection, the medical community are beginning to put more focus on treating the individual and cause of an illness rather than the symptoms and disease itself. ... Mind-body techniques are already in widespread use throughout medical settings and include a variety of methods. ... As the two most common killers in the Western world, coronary heart disease and cancer are often found in the limelight of the studies testing the mind-body connection and medical techniques. Through further knowledge and understanding it is the hope of the medical...

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In order to protect both the patient and health care provider it is vital that health care workers be tested regularly and report the results to their employer or the medical board. ... Any medical provider servicing victims of traumatic accidents can be considered a high-risk medical occupation (Arnow 274). ... Treatment for HIV may require schedule or workload change in order for the person to be able to attend regularly scheduled doctors appointments. ... Incredibly, most medical groups oppose mandatory testing of physicians for HIV infection. ... Mandatory testing for HIV would help inc...

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Medical Ethics Animal Research How has animal research helped humans? Animal research has been the way forward for most of the medical advances of this century. Here is a short list of breakthroughs that were brought about through animal research: Antibiotics for the treatment of bacterial infections; Vaccines for smallpox, tetanus, diphtheria, polio, measles, hepatitis B and chicken pox, gene therapy, Insulin to control diabetes; Chemotherapy for cancer patients; Pacemaker implants to treat cardiac patients; Discovery of the HIV virus and development of drugs to control the p...

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There are hemophilia treatments. ... If you decide that you need to go get checked and the results come out to be positive you will need a lot of emotional support, medical care and improved health habits. There are some treatment options for HIV. ... And finally, Treatment and Prevention of Specific Opportunist Infections. ... After you have been diagnosed with HIV it is very important to get medical care and start monitoring the immune system as soon as possible after HIV status is known. ...

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With the American Academy of pediatrics, the American Medical Association, the CDC, the EPA, as well as doctors and scientists around the world all in agreeing that vaccines are safe, it's hard to believe there is an issue getting people to vaccinate themselves, and their children. ... Secondly, if vaccines are thought to be excessive, I would venture to say that the treatment it takes to cure a deadly and infectious disease is more than just excessive, but also extensive. Lastly, possible side effects are inconsequential in comparison to the treatment it would take to help save a child f...

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Diagnosis begins with a complete medical history, a physical examination, blood tests, and other studies that may be required by the patient symptoms. ... The goal of treatment is to relieve symptoms by decreasing inflammation and/or the level of autoimmune activity in the body. Treatment for lupus requires a balance of medication and the control of environ-mental factors. ... The key to successful management of systemic lupus is regular contact and communication with the doctor, allowing monitoring of symptoms, disease activities, and treatment side effects. ... Lupus in 2010: A Medical...

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Depression is a mental medical illness that causes regular sadness. ... No end point has been defined for the treatment of depression, making it hard for patients to know if they have been cured. ... "These changes can lead to a vicious cycle that's tough to break without treatment for both depression and any other disease (webmd.com)." ... An individual can also experience pain which is common with depression and can impede the treatment of depression. ... A family member may even, "assist the individual in getting appropriate treatment and support the individual by listening and helpin...

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In rarer cases, Salmonella infection can also be carried in medical products that were derived from contaminated animals. ... Treatment Doctors do not usually prescribe antibiotics, since patients typically recover on their own in a few days. ...

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With multi-drug resistant infections, or 'superbugs', on the rise, vaccines are among the most powerful preventative treatment against disease. ... Though modern medicine has been able to make incredible advancements in the treatment of infectious diseases, many multi-drug resistant infections have become resistant to the best antimicrobial drugs available. ... Ultimately, the best treatment for multi-drug resistant infections is prevention, and proper early vaccination is likely the best preventative treatment available. ... The 2007 American Medical Association article, Historica...

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Now researchers have discovered that this blood contains valuable stem cells which can be used in the treatment of several blood disorders. ... Stem cell transplants are necessary after a patient has undergone a radical treatment such as chemotherapy. While these treatments destroy unhealthy cancerous cells, they also destroy otherwise healthy cells that are needed to maintain a strong immune system. ... It also poses no medical risks to the donor, and has a low graft-versus-host-disease (GVHD) threat even when combined with a non-matched donor. ...

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Some of the largest research being conducted focuses what allergies actually are, what causes their presence and treatments available, and whether our lifestyles could very well be affecting this medical problem. ... Although there are no definite treatments for allergies, we do know how some of them are triggered. ... "There are treatments we can take to suppress these symptoms that we suffer with. ... Injections are also a form of treatment. Some have to receive treatments a couple of times a week to once a month. ...

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In the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, scientists scrambled for a treatment that would obliterate or, at the very least, prevent the disease from infecting more people. ... Due to medical advancements, HIV/AIDS need not be viewed as a terminal illness, but instead, looked upon as a manageable disease....

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In 1977, the American Medical Association came out in favor of legalizing Marijuana. ... Marijuana actually helps easy the pain of people with diseases such as multiple sclerosis, cancer treatment, AIDS, glaucoma, depression, epilepsy, migraine headaches, asthma, pruritis, sclerodoma, severe pain, and dystonia. ...

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Thus, they should not be considered as a medical or a public health problem. ... There are many different treatments available to treat head lice. ... "Chemical treatments directed against lice are pediculicides. ... In reading the novel "All Quiet on The Western Front" it was evident that WWII soldiers dealt with lice constantly, and they were always applying delousing treatments and shaving their heads. ...

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Crohn's disease can affect any part of the digestive tract, from the mouth to the anus; but it most commonly occurs in the small intestine, medically speaking in the ileum. ... The whole point of that story was to tell you that choosing a good doctor and getting the treatment that you need are extremely necessary to live with this disease. ... Food and Drug Administration has approved the drug infliximab, better known as Remicade, for treatment of moderate to severe Crohn's. ...

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Stigma stops an individual to seek medical help. ... We need to fight this unfortunate attitude towards others who try to live a normal life now that treatment is available. ... There is no cure yet for HIV infection but the treatment through Antiretroviral Therapy is already showing success. ...

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A patient who believes a treatment in going to be effective has a much better chance of showing improvement than does one who in neutral or pessimistic- even when the treatment in subsequently shown to have no direct or relevant physiological effects. ... The medical profession's survival and prosperity from ancient times is to a large extent a demonstration of the power of "faith- in healing. ...

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