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    Endometriosis a disorder where the tissue lining of the uterus forms outside of the uterus causing pelvic pain. Endometriosis was first noticed in 1860, by Austrialian pathologist Karl Freiherr von Rokitansky. He first called the disease “an adenomyoma”. In the 1900’s there were only 20 worldwide cases of the disease. In the past many women have lived with this disease undiagnosed. Some factors could be environmental issues, food and general health and other numerous factors. No one knows for sure

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    Menopause Changes

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    The changes of menopause and your body, are when you’re entering a new time in your life by focusing on yourself and the thing you can enjoy. Menopause is when your ovaries stop producing hormones and your menstrual periods stop. There are two hormones, estrogen and progesterone they are what help regulate your monthly period. When the estrogen levels and progesterone levels have dropped and, an absents or irregular menstrual periods for 12 consecutive months is when a woman has entered into menopause

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    Through the last decades humanity has witnessed the heartbreaking and unsettling bloodshed with the legalization of abortion done within organizations such as Planned Parenthood. The beginnings of the largest abortion provider of the world was founded by Margaret Sanger, she opened America's first abortion clinic in 1916 but was jailed for 30 days for breaking the “comstock law”(dianedew.com). This law prevented people from talking and creating birth control back in her time. Her ultimate goal was

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    The Plan B Pill

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    The Morning After Pill Introduction/Thesis: Speculation of when life actually begins in the womb and whether or not the Morning After pill encourages sex amongst teenagers has been carried out for years and with that speculation, many perspectives have been formed for different sides of the pill. Data and opinions have been weighed in regards to the Morning After Pill, but though an examination of different perspectives on this controversial subject, research supports that the Morning

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    help promote muscle growth" (Iole 1). Types of steroids include anabolic and growth hormones. The definition of an anabolic steroid is, "Any drug or harmful substance, chemically and pharmacologically related to testosterone (other than estrogen, progestins, and corticostoroids) that promotes muscle growth, any drug or hormonal substance that stimulates the endogenous production of steroids in the human body which acts in the same manner" (Collins 1). Types of anabolic steroids include oral and intramuscular

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    The world is rapidly growing, with billions of people present on this planet. Aging in human life is one of the inevitable things. As we grow older there are physical, psychological and social changes that accompany it. There are various diseases that affect these changes; they are osteoporosis, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, type 2 diabetes, alzheimer’s disease and hypertension. This paper is going to focus on osteoporosis a disease that can initially weaken the human body without any indications

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    Have you ever wondered where or who your delicious cut of beef comes from? Do you really want to know the truth about how or where your beef is raised and processed? How much time, effort and care are put into raising the beef you as a consumer consume? Our have you ever thought about another source of meat, maybe and all-natural, purely organic form that you know the what, where, and how it was handled. Most of the meat in America as of lately comes from a farmer out west that has thousands of

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    The Effect of Endometriosis on In Vitro Fertilization By: Brittany Pangilinan Abstract The success of in vitro fertilization treatment is compromised when a patient is suffering from endometriosis. Endometriosis creates scar tissue and adhesions on the women’s ovaries and other reproductive structures preventing the joining of the egg and sperm during fertilization. In vitro fertilization was created in 1977 to manually join the egg and sperm in hope of fertilization in patients who cannot conceive

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    EPIDEMIOLOGY Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is a common endocrine disorder that affects 4% to 12% of women of childbearing age.1 The proportion of individuals in a population with PCOS depends on the diagnostic criteria.2 According to the criteria implemented by the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology/American Society for Reproductive Medicine, PCOS is as great as 15% to 20%.2 As stated in The National Institute of Health Office of Disease Prevention Report, PCOS impacts about

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    Taking a Look at Abortion

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    Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy, whether it is naturally (miscarriage) or it can be induced, which is when a woman decides that she does not want to have a baby. Abortion takes place all over the world, for multiple reasons. It started nearly 200 years ago. The reason I chose this topic is because it is commonly debated about & personally, I am pro-life. Or what other people may consider an “antiabortionist”. There are two different abortion types; medical & surgical. A medical abortion

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