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People should be allowed to choose what they would like to do to their bodies. People have the choice to drink and risk the chance of ruining their liver. People have the option to smoke cigarettes and risk the chance of numerous diseases like lung cancer. The government needs to step in and stop black market dealers, and regulate marijuana to ensure it is not synthetic which could be engineered to get someone a better high. It is important that the government sorts out the good and the bad…

the United States is now three decades old, continuing to worsen over the years. Many Americans are fearful of being categorized as obese because of the risk of other developing health conditions that come along with it, including: heart disease, cancer, diabetes or sleep apnea, just to name a few. Obesity is looked at as a simplistic issue because being larger than others automatically means that one is lazy right? This is the attitude taken towards this subject. Many people do not understand…

Furthermore, cancer treatments have grown and there are more and more different types of treatments being created for helping eliminate cancer every day. When doctors first diagnose a patient with cancer, their first task is to determine what stage the cancer is in and where it is located. “Cancer is best treated in the early stages. This helps with the doctors knowing the possibility of the cancer spreading to be less likely (American Cancer Society, 2014, p. 2). People are scared of the…

Develop a plan for healthcare advocacy After researching my local hospital, I found out that the healthcare issues affecting my local community are overweight, obesity and tobacco. Overweight or obesity is defined as a body mass index, usually rises the chances of dying from many illness, for example type 2 diabetes, stroke, coronary heart disease, hypertension, gallbladder disease and many more. The other issue affecting my community is Tobacco. Tobacco is one of the greatest…

legalization is going to happen sooner than later because of a poll taken of Floridians by Quinnipiac University shows that 51% of Floridians agree with legalization and 45% against. (International Business times) Society as a whole wants a cure for cancer, wants to see babies cured of epilepsy and want to believe in the positive effects of marijuana, but apparently not enough to get the voters to polls at election time. Predictions that by the year 2020 marijuana will be legal in at least 18…

to ensure the pace of progress is not hindered. Sustained funding of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) is critical to maintaining the pace of scientific discovery(ASCO)Recently The funding for Certain fatal cancers have gone to breast cancer. When it comes to U.S. cancer research funding, deadly disease doesn’t always translate into dollars. Lung cancer – the nation’s top cancer killer – ranks near the bottom by many measures of funding.FOX News…

diseases, cancer, and HIV by using the CAS 9 protein to cut out…

Planned Parenthood may have been breaking Federal Law, I do not believe that the government should defund them. Planned Parenthood does much more than just abortions; they do STI/STD testing and treatment, provide multiple types of contraception, cancer screenings and prevention, pregnancy tests and prenatal services, adoption referrals to other agencies, and urinary tract infection treatments. All of these services are available for men, women, and teenagers. They help many people all over the…

campaigns to notify the nation of the risks and how to treat obesity and educate the populace to see that is a serious issue resulting lots of capital and casualties. “Obesity in childhood can add up to health problems-often for life” (National Heart, Lung, Blood Institute). Most people do see the symptoms but just ignores it and often considers it “natural” growth. As they grow up they will use these as excuses and will never try to fight against obesity costing them to get a higher chance to…

2014). Gastrointestinal cancer refers to cancers that typically affect the digestive system; this incorporates cancers of the oesophagus, gallbladder, liver, pancreas, stomach, small intestine, bowel, and anus (GI Cancer Institute, 2012). Gastrointestinal cancers can be located in the upper digestive or lower digestive tract (Wikimedia Foundation, 2015). Specifically, cancers in the upper digestive tract include: esophageal, stomach, pancreatic, liver, gallbladder. Colon cancer is a type of…