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Euthanasia
Number of Words: 577 / Number of Pages: 3
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There is also another point that has to be looked at which is future medical advances. It would reduce pressure on scientists to come up with cures and symptomatic treatments for those of us who do want to live, no matter the circumstances. It would have to be thought of through a different point of view, think about the past. If had been legalized 40 years ago, there is a good chance that hospice care would not exist. I think that the improvement in terminal cared is directly effects how good treatments to minimize suffering. “If that suffering had been extinguished by extinguishing the ...
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Prader-Willi Syndrome
Number of Words: 1433 / Number of Pages: 6
... in their mouths.
"The ingenuity and determination of PWS children in surreptitiously obtaining
edibles is almost legendary and belies their cognitive defects. Serial weighing
may be the only way to discover whether such a child is, in fact, stealing
food"(Finey,1983).
PWS occurs in about l in 10,000 births. It occurs in both males and females
equally and is found in people of all races and all nations.It is one of the ten
most common conditions seen in genetics clinics.
Young people with PWS resemble each other very much.Most of the time, they look
like brother and sister. Most of PWS people ha ...
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Antibiotic Resistance
Number of Words: 646 / Number of Pages: 3
... is completely finished. If it is not, then
this will just give the bacteria some time to find a way to avoid the
effects of the drug.
One antibiotic that will always have a long lasting effect in history is
penicillin. This was the first antibiotic ever to be discovered. Alexander
Fleming was the person responsible for the discovery in 1928. In his
laboratory, he noticed that in some of his bacteria colonies, that he was
growing, were some clear spots. He realized that something had killed the
bacteria in these clear spots, which ended up to be a fungus growth. He
then discovered that inside this ...
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Alzheimer's Q&A
Number of Words: 958 / Number of Pages: 4
... enlarged, also reducing surface area
in the brain.
What are the symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease?
Alzheimer's Disease is a dementing illness which leads to loss of
intellectual capacity. Symptoms usually occur in older adults (although
people in their 40s and 5Os may also be affected) and include loss of
language skills -- such as trouble finding words, problems with abstract
thinking, poor or decreased judgment, disorientation in place and time,
changes in mood or behavior and changes in personality. The overall result
is a noticeable decline in personal activities or work p ...
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Steroids
Number of Words: 937 / Number of Pages: 4
... type of voice, and the physical build. Adrenal steroids, produced
in the cortex of the adrenal gland in humans, regulate protein and carbohydrate
metabolism. Aldosterone, another steroid produced in the adrenal cortex, plays
a role in the mineral and water balance of the body.
Anabolic steroids are commercially produced by chemical methods from the
male hormone testosterone. Artificial steroids were first developed for medical
purposes during World War II (1939-1945) by the German army. The Germans gave
it to their soldiers to make them more aggressive in combat. After the war,
doctors in Europe ...
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Alzheimer’s Special Care Units
Number of Words: 2711 / Number of Pages: 10
... care units and are necessary to the treatment and well being of a resident with Alzheimer’s disease or a related forms of dementia.
In order to understand what benefits a person will receive from a special care unit, we must first examine what dementia is. When most people think of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, probably the first symptom to come to mind is forgetfulness of memory loss. While many people believe that senility is an inevitable symptom that comes with age, it is important to remember that memory loss is pathologically based, not age based. It is normal to forget where o ...
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The Effects Of Stress, Alcohol Outcome Expectancies, Gender, Coping Styles, And Family Alcoholism On Alcohol Consumption
Number of Words: 1424 / Number of Pages: 6
... drinking? This research will determine the answers to
these questions, and determine the strength of the correlations, if any.
Introduction
The main question that this statistical model will answer is as follows:
Is there any correlation between drinking and gender, alcohol expectancies,
family alcoholism, stress, and coping styles?
Gender
It has been demonstrated that significant differences exist between the
drinking patterns of men and women (Hilton, 1988). In a survey of US drinking
habits conducted in 1988 by the US National Center for Health Statistics, Dawson
and Archer (1992) ...
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Skin Cancer: “What Disease Am I”
Number of Words: 429 / Number of Pages: 2
... found on dark skinned people. It will develop into large masses
unlike basal cell carcinoma, it can spread to other parts of the body. It
is estimated that there are 2,300 deaths from squamous cell carcinoma every
year.
Another type of this cancer is malignant melanoma. Malignant
melanoma is the most harmful. It develops on about 32,000 Americans
annually. Every year are estimated 6,800 Americans will die from melanoma.
Melanoma like its less aggressive cousins, basal cell and squamous cell
carcinomas, is almost always curable in its early stages.
Melanoma has its beginnings in melanocyte ...
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Preventing Health Problems Through Running
Number of Words: 514 / Number of Pages: 2
... running, "many
Zuni were able to reduce or eliminate their diabetes medication."(5)
My research also reveled that diverticular disease can be reduced
in men that run. For instance, Marty Munson and Teresa Yeykal writes in
the article "Outrun trouble" which says, "guys who racked up the most ours
doing vigorous exercise reduced their risks of diverticular decease by a
third."(38) They also say "it's good advice to make your lifestyle to
consume high fiber."(38)
I found that running can also reduce the risk of heart disease.
The article "Run for your life" talks about Mitchell H. Whaley ...
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Getting Daily Exercise
Number of Words: 444 / Number of Pages: 2
... told over the years, was to get at least twenty minutes of exercise, three times a week. This article states that you should get at least thirty minutes of moderately intense exercise everyday of the week. I feel this is quite a bit for some people and should not be stated as the “minimum” amount you should receive. I agree with having an exercise routine throughout your life, beginning when you are young (although it is never too late to start). I do not agree, however, with some of the demanding circumstances that young children are expected to endure by having too much to get thin because of the ...
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