Would you have unprotected sex? Would you have unprotected sex with multiple partners everyday? Would you have unprotected sex with multiple partners everyday in a country where 1 out of every 10 adults is HIV positive? This is the risk taken by millions of African prostitutes everyday. 95% of the p...

Cancer is a very common killer disease known today around the world. Cancer is known as one of the most popular diseases, which have grown but because of the new development in medicine there are less deaths. More people are being found with this disease but they're not dying because of the dev...

Yellow Fever Yellow Fever, or Flavivirus Taxon, is a virus that kills 30,000 people yearly. It is carried by mosquitoes, which feed on humans. Currently, it is only found in South America and Africa. It is non-contagious and can only be caught once. Someone could tell ...

AIDS: What is it and how is it spread? What is AIDS and how is it spread? Around the world, AIDS has been a top killer for many people throughout the 20th century and is spread numerous ways. Scientist have been hard at work for years to find a cure for AIDS, but only have been able to fin...

Diabetes Diabetes is considered by some in the medical field as a silent killer, which can become loud if the person lets it. By not knowing your status or getting your status late it could have the person suffer some serious medical injury to the body. If detected early it can be handled a...

Attacking Anthrax Anthrax is a horrible killer. Most that die are unknowing that they are even infected. The symptoms are black sores in the first instance, and abdominal cramp and vomiting and bleeding in the second. If the bacteria grows it will invade the blood stream and cause systemic...

"To Clone, Or Not To Clone?" Did you ever imagine having a child that is the exact replica of you? Did you ever imagine of having the cure for heart disease or cancer? Well, these fantasies are not far from reach. The way we could reach these fantasies is through a process cal...

The Green Mile: Character Response "He wore chains on his arms and across his water barrel of a chest; He wore legirons on his ankles and shuffled a chain between them that sounded like cascading coins as it ran down the lime-coloured corridor between the cells" You have just been ...

When you turn on the television you see many visions of problems in America. These problems include violence, poverty, crime and murder. All of these problems are either caused by, or directly related to drugs. A drug is any substance ingested into the body that is not food. The greatest probl...

When you turn on the television you see many visions of problems in America. These problems include violence, poverty, crime and murder. All of these problems are either caused by, or directly related to drugs. A drug is any substance ingested into the body that is not food. The greatest proble...

What Should Our Cholesterol Levels Be, Ideally, and How Can We Control Our Cholesterol Without Prescription Drugs? At the moment, suppliers of anti-cholesterol drugs, such as Pfizer's Lipitor or Pravachol, are marketing their merchandise as the sole weapon available to combat the relentless onsl...

Cardiovascular diseases rank as America's number 1 killer. They claim the lives of 42.7 percent of the more than 2 million Americans who die each year. Cancer follows, killing 23.8 percent. All other causes of death account for 33.5 percent. Medical research continually seeks to reduce di...

Sickle Cell Anemia Imagine, that you have just had your newborn baby and as you take her to get her first check up, you find out she has sickle cell anemia. The first thing that goes through your mind is what is it and how did she get it? About Sickle Cell Sickle cell anemia disease is a ...

Vitamin B12 Vitamins are essential to keep you healthy, maintain a good metabolism and to stimulate growth especially in children. They aid in the formation of hormones, blood cells, and genetic material. The vitamin B complex, composed of eight forms of vitamin B, works together to absorb and ...

Teen Alcoholism "Too many college students have just one objective, "to get drunk!" Campus alcoholism is an epidemic sweeping through colleges and universities at a rapidly growing speed. Even though it is illegal for a minor under the age of 21 to purchase or consume al...

Heart disease is a common disease in people. Its a disease that affects the heart and the cardiovascular system. There are many types of Heart disease. Most often when people think of any kind of heart disease they usually think of the Coronary Artery Disease. That is the narrowing of arteries that ...

It is an empty room, with an open wooden-framed door that towers any possible trespasser. From the outside it may be confused with a perfectly squared block of concrete, in the middle of nowhere. There isn't anything near not even at a distance of a thousand feet radius, as if it was a vacuum t...

VICTORIES IN THE WAR AGAINST DISEASE Once upon a time, not so many years ago, each summer brought fear of a deadly, paralyzing disease, which struck mostly children and young adults. This killer cut short the lives of hundreds of young people every year, and made long-life cripples out of many s...

AIDS is the worst disease epidemic to ever spread throughout the world since the Black Death took the lives of more than one third of the European population back in the Middle Ages. AIDS, which is an acronym for Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome, is a disease cause by the HIV virus. The disease k...

Marijuana is the most widely used illegal drug in America today. However it is the least understood. Not until about the 1960's did many people know about marijuana and the harm it causes. Marijuana is a green, brown and gray mixture of dry shredded leaves from the hemp plant (Cannabis Sativa). Mar...

By further highlighting events that occur during sleep, those that do not happen will simultaneously be highlighted on as well. Humans show a marked surge in growth hormone (hGH) production during the early part of sleep, making it the greatest natural release of this hormone over twenty-four hou...

Since the dawn of man, science has been filled with controversial advances. For example, breakthroughs in areas such as artificial insemination have caused much controversy in the past. However, time has proven that such advances are truly worthwhile. The same could happen with cloning if only it wa...

"To Clone, Or Not To Clone?" Did you ever imagine having a child that is the exact replica of you? Did you ever imagine of having the cure for heart disease or cancer? Well, these fantasies are not far from reach. The way we could reach these fantasies is through a process called cloning...

Imagine the air that you and your children breathe is being polluted with hundreds of chemicals and toxic substances, but if you smoke you don't have to imagine. With each cigarette you smoke you are polluting your lungs and the air around you with over four thousand chemical compounds and over...

*Cloning* The issue of cloning has be come a great topic for the past few years. The questions of cloning or not to clone have many reasons for either option. How to define cloning. To use a good definition the Medical Association defined cloning as the production of genetically identica...