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Bronchitis
Number of Words: 824 / Number of Pages: 3
... chills,
running nose, aching muscles and possibly back pains. This is soon
followed by the obvious persistent cough. At first the cough is dry and
racking and eventually becomes phlegmy. The persistent cough is worse at
night than during the day, and when the person breathes in smoke and fumes.
The main symptoms most recognized in chronic bronchitis is, again, a cough,
with sputum, often occurring in paroxysms. Other symptoms in chronic
bronchitis are dependant on how much, or how little, emphysema is present.
This disorder causes the lungs to become overstretched, making the
breathing process d ...
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How I Deal With A Loved One Who Has Aids
Number of Words: 823 / Number of Pages: 3
... my loved one does not see the pain and suffering that was accidentally forced upon them by a blood trusfusion or by their own bad judgment and the agony caused to all family members and friends. How do I cope with the pain? First, I must deal with the pain by getting everything out in the open. I can not make plans for the future anymore. I have to plan everything on a day by day basis. Now. I’m going to try to be there for my loved one through his pain and his happiness.
The pain of seeing someone I love with HIV whose physical condition is diminishing kills me. One day he will not be here wit ...
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Euthanasia
Number of Words: 2546 / Number of Pages: 10
... ways of ending life are abortion, capital punishment, war, and suicide.
The issue of “assisted suicide” has been the subject of intense national debate. In June 1997 the U.S. Supreme Court handed down decisions in two cases challenging the legality of state bans on “assisted suicide”. In both cases the Court found that there was no constitutional right to assisted suicide and turned the matter to states to decide whether to ban or legalize assisted suicide. The use of in the Netherlands was first permitted in 1973. Currently, the state of Oregon is the only state to permit physician-assisted sui ...
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Vitamins
Number of Words: 704 / Number of Pages: 3
... This discovery caused vitamine to be turned into vitamin.
In 1912 Hopkins and Funk made a hypothesis. The hypothesis stated the
absence of some vitamins could cause diseases such as beriberi and scurvy.
Later a letter was assigned to each vitamin. The letters which were assigned to
vitamins in the early years of vitamin research categorize them according to
their functions. As research progressed, the vitamins were given scientific
names.
Foods that contain vitamins are very essential for good health and
growth. Milk can be important because it is a source of vitamin D. V ...
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Treating Bulimia
Number of Words: 774 / Number of Pages: 3
... goes away, psychotherapy is over. This is not true. The process of psychotherapy helps a person resolve the emotional dilemmas that led them to food in the first place. This part of treatment fully begins when the eating itself is less of an issue. Then a psychotherapist deals with the psychological aspects of the disease.
When someone enters therapy, it does not necessarily mean that the eating disorder will lessen in a predictable manner. Sometimes people initially increase the bingeing or purging in a last-ditch attempt to hold onto the behavior before they have to give it up. Others sto ...
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Abraham Maslow's Theory Of Human Needs
Number of Words: 818 / Number of Pages: 3
... the demands of the first have been satisfied.
1. Physiological Needs. These needs are biological and consists of the needs for oxygen, food, water, and a relatively constant body temperature. These needs are the strongest because if deprived, the person would die.
2. Safety Needs. Except in times of emergency or periods of disorganization in the social structure (such as widespread rioting) adults do not experience their security needs. Children, however often display signs of insecurity and their need to be safe.
3. Love, Affection and Belongingness Needs. People have needs to escape feelings of l ...
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Reasons To Be Fit
Number of Words: 546 / Number of Pages: 2
... osteoporosis, frailty, diabetes and
conditions like obesity than the people are not. Fit people also tend to
live a longer life. Doing aerobic and weight exercises such as running,
walking, swimming, weight lifting etc. and a healthy diet is important in
preventing or treating the above diseases or conditions.
When you are fit, you feel energized and want to be active. Unfit
people are always sitting around saying they are tire and donˇ¦t want to do
things. The truth is, unfit people are always tire. Their heart and
metabolism rate are low, so when they want to do something, they do no ...
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Number of Words: 1533 / Number of Pages: 6
... and Child
Posttraumatic... 28)".
Children are now becoming realized as significant sufferers of
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder is particularly
bad for children under the age of 11, because they lack many of the skills
needed to protect themselves. Furthermore, this vulnerability is enhanced when
the child is exposed to any maltreatment. According to recent studies,
"Posttraumatic Stress Disorder is a common sequella of severe or chronic
maltreatment of children, particularly among sexually maltreated children (
Famularo, Symptom Differences... 28)". Posttraumatic ...
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Abortion - Right To Choose
Number of Words: 759 / Number of Pages: 3
... particular the capacity to feel pain. 2) reasoning (the developed capacity to solve new and relatively complex problems) 3) self-motivated activity (activity which is relatively independent of either genetic or direct external control) 4) the capacity to communicate, by whatever means, messages of an indefinite variety of possible contents, but on indefinltely many possible topics. 5) the presence of self-concepts, and self-awareness, either individual or social, or both. (Taking Sides -Volume 3).
Several cases have been fought for the right to choose. Many of these have been hard cases with very p ...
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Emergency Visits On The Rise
Number of Words: 490 / Number of Pages: 2
... a walk-in clinic or doctor’s office because it’s more convenient for them, they rather not put up in the waiting room for hours, and for the homeless patients, the know that their chances of getting a real bed is higher if they come in the emergency room. Eighty-nine percent of all emergency patient thought they need to be seen immediately, but less than forty three percent of these patients requires care within twenty four hours. The other fifty five percent was just a false alarm, an example of this is a sixty years old man has chest pain thinking that it could be related to a heart attack, he goe ...
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