They already have a pill that contains the THC from marijuana that is given to cancer and AIDS patients. ... The THC pill helps cancer patients treat their nausea and vomiting and help People who are suffering from AIDS gain weight because it causes them to become hungry or "get the munchies". ... The THC in marijuana has a very high concentrate in breast milk which is easily passed to the baby during breast feeding. Babies who were feed breast milk with THC in the milk had impaired motor development. ... No good can come from marijuana it causes lung c...

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In addition, infected pregnant women can pass HIV to their babies during pregnancy or delivery, as well as through breast-feeding. The virus is transmitted in body fluids: blood, semen, vaginal fluid, breast milk and other blood containing fluids have all been proven to carry spread the virus. By killing or impairing cells of the immune system, HIV progressively destroys the body's ability to fight infections and certain cancers. ...

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People with such life-threatening and debilitating illness as cancer, coronary heart disease, and chronic pain are learning to change their habits and attitude, as well as how they think. ... 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. ... Cancer support groups for cancer and other serious diseases have become nearly universal. ... Of those who were in the control group (no group therapy), thirteen of thirty-four had a recurrence of cancer during...

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The body becomes more vulnerable to many illnesses, from colds and minor infections to major diseases such as cancer. Breast cancer, has received a lot of attention as of late. Studies have shown that an alarming number of women with breast cancer had experienced some sort of traumatic life experience or loss several years before their diagnosis (Farrington). ...

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HIV is carried in certain body fluids including blood, semen, vaginal secretions and breast milk. These fluids can be contacted from an infected person through sexual contact, sharing of needles, during birth and from breast feeding. ... Opportunistic infections are treated with a range of powerful antibiotics and cancers with chemotherapy. ...

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The doctors recognized the condition as something new because all the patients were previously healthy, young homosexual men suffering from otherwise rare forms of cancer and pneumonia. ... By killing or impairing cells of the immune system, HIV progressively destroys the body's ability to fight infractions and certain cancers. ... Cancers are also signs of HIV, due to the fact that your immune system is down. ... Also, women during pregnancy and labor to their newborn babies should not breast feed their infants. ...

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The cause of that is in all cases pneumonia cancer or infection with bacteria and viruses. ... Babies born to HIV-infected women may become infected before or during birth, through breast-feeding after birth. ...

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The four ways in which we know this virus can be contracted is through blood, semen, vaginal secretions, and breast milk. ... Along with cancer, the way that it affects people and the numbers at which is does so is appalling. ...

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Many people in the United States uses marijuana but do they know the effects. A lot of people also use the drug because they think that they are cool if they do use it. People also use the drug to escape from problems that they have. So in my paper I will inform these people what they are doing to t...

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History of AIDS 5 Kaposi's sarcoma is a rare form of skin cancer first discovered in April of 1981 (Grmek, 1990, p.6-7). Karposi's sarcoma is actually the most common form of cancer found in AIDS patients. ... In the year 1981, researchers thought this disease was found in only gay men therefore calling it "gay cancer or gay-related History of AIDS 9 immune deficiency", (So little time... 1998). ...

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