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Cystic Fibrosis
Number of Words: 1062 / Number of Pages: 4
... or pneumonia (Scientific 1). The patient usually will have a great appetite but poor weight gain and bulky foul smelling stools. causes mucus to clog the lungs and leads to fatal infections. The thick mucus also obstructs the pancreas, preventing enzymes from reaching the intestines to digest food (Scientific 1).
Lung problems are the most common cause of death of patients (CFF 4). Lung impairment accounts for more than 90 percent of the disability and death in patients with . Infant deaths from Cystic Fibrosis are often caused by blockage I the intestines. affects the digestive sys ...
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Assisted Suicide
Number of Words: 586 / Number of Pages: 3
... to spend thousands of dollars a day on medical expenses just so the patient can continue living a life he doesn't even want to keep? This medical treatment, in some instances, can only extend a life by mere weeks. In theory, this treatment is just adding on more weeks of pain and suffering. Not only does the patient have to suffer, but the family members have to suffer watching their loved ones live in agony. Furthermore, these medical expenses are probably covered by government medical aid. If this money is being spent on someone who doesn't even want the help, wouldn't it make more sense to spe ...
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Diet And Cancer... What Is The Link?
Number of Words: 504 / Number of Pages: 2
... AICR guidelines are:
1. Reduce the intake of total dietary fat to a level of no more than 30%
of total calories and, in particular, reduce the intake of saturated fat to less
than 10% of total calories.
2. Increase the consumption of fruits, vegetables and whole grains.
3. Consume salt-cured, salt-pickled and smoked foods only in moderation.
4. Drink alcoholic beverages only in moderation, if at all.*
Most cancers start when the body is exposed to a carcinogen, a cancer-
causing substance that is found everywhere in our environment for example in
sunlight. When the body is exposed to this sub ...
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Number of Words: 937 / Number of Pages: 4
... anxiety and worry about life
circumstances for a period greater than 6 months, during
which this person has been bothered by these concerns for
more days than not.
B. The person has difficulty controlling the anxiety and
worrying.
C. The anxiety and worry are associated with at least 3
of the following symptoms:
1) Restlessness or feeling keyed up or on edge
2) Being easily fatigued
3) Difficulty in concentrating or mind going blank
4) Irritability
5) Muscle tension
6) Sleep disturbances
D. If another psychiatric disorder ...
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Abortion Life Or Death: Who Chooses?
Number of Words: 4447 / Number of Pages: 17
... It is an incontrovertible fact of biological science - Make no Mistake - that from the moment of conception, a new human life has been created. Only those who allow their emotional passion to overide their knowledge, can deny it: only those who are irrational or ignorant of science, doubt that when a human sperm fertilizes a human ovum a new human being is created. A new human being who carries genes in its cells that make that human being uniquely different from any and other human being and yet, undeniably a member, as we all are, of the great human family. All the fetus needs to grow into a b ...
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Attention Deficit Disorder
Number of Words: 1816 / Number of Pages: 7
... of behavior and attention. They receive information from the lower
brain, which regulated arousal and screens incoming messages from within and
outside of the body. The limbic system , a group of related nervous system
structures located in the midbrain and linked to emotions and feelings, also
sends messages to the frontal lobes. Finally, the frontal lobes are suspected to
be the site of working memory, the place where information about the immediate
environment is considered for memory storage, planning, and future-directed
behavior. Scientist believe the activity in the frontal lobes is depress ...
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Alcoholism
Number of Words: 796 / Number of Pages: 3
... or as a
learned, maladaptive coping behavior. More recently, and probably more
accurately, it has come to be viewed as a complex disease entity in its own
right. Alcoholism usually develops over a period of years. Early and subtle
symptoms include placing excessive importance on the availability of alcohol.
Ensuring this availability strongly influences the person's choice of associates
or activities. Alcohol comes to be used more as a mood-changing drug than as a
foodstuff or beverage served as a part of social custom or religious ritual.
Initially, the alcoholic may demonstrate a high tolerance to ...
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Autonomy Vs. Paternalism In Mental Health Treatment
Number of Words: 2813 / Number of Pages: 11
... Mr. Gordon
eluded to his desire for autonomy. Mr. Gordon did not wish to live in a
supervised setting. Mr. Gordon did not wish to attend group day treatment
settings. Mr. Gordon did not wish to use medication in the treatment of his
mental health disorder. Without medication his behavior was deemed unacceptable
and did not permit him the opportunity to have any of these choices. "Choice is
a right-not a privilege to be afforded by good behavior (Penny, 1994, p. 29)."
Mr. Gordon's right of choice was limited even though he lived in his apartment
independently. The condition of his apartment was sc ...
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Haemophilia
Number of Words: 1118 / Number of Pages: 5
... of the coagulation
factor VIII (VIII:C)3. In most of the cases, this coagulant protein is reduced
but in a rare amount of cases, this protein is present by immunoassay but
defective. Haemophilia A is the most common severe bleeding disorder and
approximately 1 in 10,000 males is effected. The most common types of bleeding
are into the joints and muscles. Haemophilia is severe if the factor VIII:C
levels are less that 1 %, they are moderate if the levels are 1-5% and they are
mild if they levels become 5+%.
Those with mild haemophilia bleed only in response to major trauma or
surgery. ...
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AIDS:Is There A Cure? Are There Preventions?
Number of Words: 1091 / Number of Pages: 4
... same way as by IV needle but it is always by the
blood.(Madaras,187) The most rare way the AIDS virus is spread is by a mother
passing it to fetus inside her.(Madaras,188)
AIDS is a very rapidly-spreading disease although it is only spread four
ways. Ten years ago only two cases of AIDS were known. Nine years ago only seven
cases were known. In 1983 over 3,000 cases were recorded, and by 1989, there
were more than 100,000 cases. (Samuel,26)
Many people think you can get AIDS by what scientists call "casual
contact." Casual contact is by such means as swimming pools, kissing, toilet
seats, e ...
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