Essays Tagged: "medicines"

Medicine During Shakespeare

of the two start crossed love, other are skeptical, butwe will probably never know.The methods and medicines used in Renaissance and Medieval times werevery primitive compared to today's standards. m ...

(1 pages) 31 0 3.4 Mar/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

Herbal Extracts and Hormones

ith the introduction of herbal capsules and pills, people are enjoying the benefits of Earth's good medicines. The herb industry has been growing at about thirty percent per year for the past several ... on Flower or Valerian Root is used to calm a person or relieve anxiety. These are thousand year old medicines used as tranquilizers. They have fewer side effects and don't damage the body as Valium or ...

(6 pages) 100 0 3.8 Nov/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

"Stereotyped Women in Advertising"

me products, such as laundry and cleaning items and food, or for child products, such as children's medicines and children's toys. I found an article written by Jason Low about portrayal of women in s ...

(7 pages) 429 2 3.9 Jun/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria

ons.Antibiotics are chemical substances that are secreted by living things. Doctors prescribed thesemedicines to cure many diseases. During World War II, it treated one of the biggest killersduring wa ... t whenantibiotics were being mass produced, bacteria started to evolve and became resistant to thesemedicines.Antibiotic resistance can be the result of different things. One cause of resistance could ...

(3 pages) 134 0 3.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

This essay disproves that "Cheating is always wrong" and "there is an absolute reality"

ing performance in sports by the following:·Endurance/Weight training·Massages·Medicines to enhance performance from places such as GNCThese all are acceptable ways of "cheating" ... one tries to get out of dying by struggling to survive. In this case, the outwitting comes from the medicines that are generated from the minds of scientists to fight the disease or bacteria causing o ...

(4 pages) 205 2 3.3 Nov/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Wal-Mart in Halifax, Canada

wide variety of merchandise including apparel, domestics, hardware, electronics, home furnishings, medicines, restaurants, beauty aids, and so more. The company operates internationally with subsidia ...

(4 pages) 155 0 3.2 Nov/2002

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Biodiversity

versity is because of the benefits tohumans such as resources that provide goods for human use like medicines, foods, and products for shelter.Other important benefits to humankind include the product ...

(1 pages) 142 0 4.6 Jan/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Research on the career of a pharmacist.

practice, because pharmaceutical companies in a standard dosage and drug delivery form produce most medicines. Most pharmacists work in a community setting, such as a retail drug store, or in a hospit ...

(2 pages) 126 0 3.5 Jan/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Short Summaries of "Les Miserables"

smissal. The foreman, whose advances she hasrejected, throws her out.Desperate for money to pay for medicines for her daughter,Fantine sells her locket, her hair, and then joins the whores inselling h ...

(4 pages) 32 0 3.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

"Fueling Drug Costs in Today's World" This essay takes a look at whats behind the "rising drug costs" and the value of medicine today.

rugs cost is on a rising trend. Consequently, much of the national debate today is over the cost of medicines. As consumers living in the United States, the consumption of and dependence on prescripti ...

(2 pages) 105 1 5.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

China's one child policy.

rm the land. Not only is the population increasing, people are living longer, due to better acts in medicines. The population of 65 years old was only 66 million in 1990, and now is expected to grow 9 ...

(10 pages) 530 3 4.3 Apr/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues

Hardship Experience Is Not Necessary For Young Students to Mature

For instance the SARS is a kind of hardship. Almost everyone scare about it. They wear masks; have medicines to prevent themselves from infected. On the other hand the people who have been infected t ...

(2 pages) 41 0 3.7 May/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Drugs, Alcohol, Adults, and Kids.

housands of drugs that can help people overcome the treatment of infections and diseases. There are medicines to lower blood pressure, treat diabetes, and reduce the body's rejection of new organs. Me ... um poppy, which is also used to create the class of painkillers called narcotics. Examples of these medicines are codeine and morphine. Heroin can range from a white to dark brown powder to a sticky, ...

(17 pages) 290 0 4.3 May/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Are Electro-Convulsion Treatments Harmful?

tidepressants or patients who can't take antidepressants; and severe mania that does not respond to medicines. My opinion on this is that it is very harmful to a person's brain.From the 1996 study of ...

(4 pages) 28 0 3.0 Sep/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

"The Scarlet letter" by Nathanael Hawthown.

ryone in town really needs a good doctor so they welcome him with arms wide open. He does know some medicines and cures for sicknesses by learning from others. Dimsdale is very sick and is always hurt ...

(2 pages) 40 0 4.3 Nov/2003

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Pfizer, Inc. Case.

pharmaceutical and consumer products company, which discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets medicines for humans and animals. The company consists of three SBU's (Strategic Business Units):&mi ... arket serves as a disincentive to pharmaceutical firms in their efforts to discover and develop new medicines. Scientific factors, such as the changing focus of drug discovery and development, have al ...

(10 pages) 621 0 4.4 Nov/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

This essay discusses why technological exploration is more important than the exploration of the 1500s.

to develop the latest and finest ways to treat and prevent disease. In earlier times there were no medicines, even for the common cold. Technology has allowed doctors to develop medication, and effec ...

(1 pages) 31 2 3.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

Elizabethan Era: Diseases and medicines.

ver and vomiting. Cholera is rapid acting and death occurs 12-48 hours of infection. Cholera had no medicines to cure it. And in the 19th cholera became the first global disease in a series of epidemi ... eadache, body aches, and general weakness. The plague left a huge dent in the population of England.MEDICINESMedicines used in Elizabethan times had no proof that they worked. People based their belie ...

(2 pages) 29 0 3.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Speech on the rain forest.

Most people have no idea just how much the rainforest is affecting our lives. Many of our foods and medicines come directly from the rainforest. Even the oxygen we breathe is a direct function of the ... odiversity. Less RF means less rain, oxygen, and greater threat of global warming.One fourth of the medicines available today owe their existence to plants. 70% of the plants found only in the rainfor ...

(6 pages) 130 2 4.7 Jan/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences

Biotechnology assignment, Genetic Engineering,

ry, the environment, medicine and Agriculture. Biotechnology is used in the production of foods and medicines, the reduction of wastes and the creation of renewable energy sources. I have chosen Genet ...

(3 pages) 105 0 3.7 Mar/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biotechnology