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Dreams
Number of Words: 2033 / Number of Pages: 8
... stage one sleep. Research has shown stage one sleep to be the
lightest of the four levels of sleep. In this stage the E. E. G, a machine
that measures types of brain waves, shows many alpha signals. Alpha signals
really are fast low voltage brain signals. The sleeper can also be easily
awakened while in this stage of sleep. The next level of sleep is stage
two. In which the brain shows sporatic brain wave signals which consist of
high-voltage activity known as sleep spindles. Many people have been know
to sleep walk while in this stage. The next level of sleep is stage three.
In this stage the b ...
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Magnetic Therapy
Number of Words: 1010 / Number of Pages: 4
... also very aware of the tendency the human mind has in playing a role in the healing process:
"The spirit of the master, the imagination is the instrument, the body is the plastic material. The moral atmosphere surrounding the patient can have a strong influence on the course of the disease. It is not a curse or a blessing that works, but the idea. The imagination produces the effect" (Livingston, p. 25).
This role imagination plays, known as the placebo effect, is a true thorn in the side of as a practice. And this is where the debate lies: between true physiological efficacy and the placebo ef ...
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Being Unfit Can Mean Problems
Number of Words: 540 / Number of Pages: 2
... 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 don'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 not
have enough energy to do it. But ...
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AIDS
Number of Words: 2987 / Number of Pages: 11
... symptoms. In addition,
although the vast majority of documented cases have occurred in the United
States, AIDS cases have been reported in about 162 countries worldwide. Sub-
Saharan Africa in particular appears to suffer a heavy burden of this illness.
No cure or vaccine now exists for AIDS. Many of those infected with HIV may not
even be aware that they carry and can spread the virus. It is evident that HIV
infection represents an epidemic of serious proportions. Combating it is a
major challenge to biomedical scientists and health-care providers. HIV
infection and AIDS represent one of t ...
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Health Experience
Number of Words: 832 / Number of Pages: 4
... So do you think that the system would give women a break? Of course not, "Because women use the system more often, we should pay higher insurance premiums." "’Poor women and women of color are liabilities, while insured women are ‘markets’ and ‘billable’ resources." "doctors accuse ‘poor’ women of not taking proper care of ourselves or our children, or they see drug use and depression in ‘poor’ families as individual, preventable failures of character rather than as markets of economically and socially depressed community development." "’Poor’ women are more likely to be used as ‘teaching materi ...
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD)
Number of Words: 2286 / Number of Pages: 9
... of
mucous membranes.
Symtoms of infection usually appear within two to ten days after
exposure but might take up to thirty days.
In males, gonorhea usually strikes first at the urethra, the
tube that extends from the bladder to the tip of the penis. A burning sensation
during urination may be experienced due to the irritation of the urethra's
mucosal lining. Many males may also notice and abnormal discharge from the penis.
The penis itself may be red or swollen at the tip. Urination may become more
frequent or difficult. Occasionally, no symptoms are evident immediately.
In females, gonorrhea ...
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Indian Healing Beliefs
Number of Words: 1010 / Number of Pages: 4
... This
power comes from varied sources: a visionary experience that leads one into
the study of medicine, or being born into a family that includes
generations of medicine people. Many tribes have both men and women
medicine people, but some tribes have only medicine women. Many medicine
people have a specialty, such as herbalist, bone setter, midwife, or
counselor. The Hopi tribe has Effie, a medicine women who learned the art
of using herbs. Each person is effective and useful at what he or she does,
and they each have distinct ways of doing their work. They are ‘medicine'
in their cultures; learned, ...
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Euthanasia: People Should Have The Right To Choose
Number of Words: 874 / Number of Pages: 4
... is whether to do this by way of
active euthanasia or passive euthanasia. Many are against active euthanasia
because in this case you actually kill the person rather than letting them die.
But both methods are used for the same end which is to end someone's life
without further pain for the patient as well as for the family. The only choice
to make after this fact is established is which of these means better carries
out the end. James Rachels, a philosophy professor, says that, "if one simply
withholds treatment [in the way of passive euthanasia], it may take the patient
longer to die, and so he ...
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Doctor Assisted Suicide
Number of Words: 403 / Number of Pages: 2
... the establishment of religion.
The Declaration of Independence proclaimed, for the first time in the history of nations, that each person exists as an end in himself. This basic truth which finds political expression in the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness means in practical terms that you need no one's permission to live and that no one may forcibly obstruct your efforts to achieve your own personal happiness. But what if happiness becomes impossible to attain? What if a terrable disease, or some other desaster, drains all joy from life, leaving only misery and suffering? ...
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How Has AIDS Affected Our Society?
Number of Words: 1223 / Number of Pages: 5
... headed by American virologist Jay Levy
at the University of California at San Francisco isolated a retrovirus from
people with AIDS and from individuals having contact with people with AIDS. All
three groups of scientists had isolated what is now known as HIV, the virus that
causes AIDS. In 1995 HIV was estimated to infect almost 20 million people
worldwide, and several million of those people had developed AIDS. The disease
is obviously an important social issue.
AIDS has caused many to rethink their own social behavior. People are
forced to use caution when involving themselves in sexual activ ...
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