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What's Love Got To Do With It; Everything!
Number of Words: 1436 / Number of Pages: 6
... Why are they in love? Then,
ask yourself, How are they in love? It may be surprising, but the answers to
these questions can be surpassingly different. Only when they are the same will
the love be true.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, is set in a house somewhere
in Albuquerque NM, some time in the afternoon or early evening, and going into
night. As previously stated, the story was written in 1981, and it appears to
set in the same time. Two couples are sitting around the kitchen table, drinking
gin, and talking, talking about love and the many forms it takes. Teresa (Terri)
give ...
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Health Care Reforms
Number of Words: 503 / Number of Pages: 2
... and then analyzed in terms of their value to the production of the end product. For health services the end product would be the aggregation of applied procedures, tests and therapies related to a particular patient treatment. Accounting systems categorize expenditures in terms of labor, materiel and capital, allocating pools of common expenses and overhead that can't be directly traced to a specific product or service. The impreciseness of most allocation techniques tends to misrepresent real cost levels, resulting in poor business decisions and mis-allocation of resources.
Reform will be ...
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Familial Hypercholesterolemia
Number of Words: 560 / Number of Pages: 3
... cholesterol- LDL, is known to precipitate out and accumulate on the lining on the membrane of arteries, and eventually sludge this tube enough to impair the flow of life giving blood to the end organ supplied by this blood vessel resulting in disease and serious impairment of that organ, eventually. It has been well proven that an excess of "good" cholesterol- HDL, helps to preserve the integrity of the blood arterial lining of blood vessels preventing the occurring of impairment of flow of blood to its end organ.
In , afflicted individuals of a given family spontaneously manufacture excess, someti ...
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Bulimia
Number of Words: 795 / Number of Pages: 3
... be obtained by driving up to a window to order
them. No one pays much attention to a person in a car who is ordering
large quantities of food. After eating the person vomits or uses laxatives
to get rid of the food. When they see the apple peel or corn leave the
body they know that the food they have eaten has been totally eliminated
because the apple or corn is easily recognized and does not digest. A
typical binge can be between 1,00 and 11,000 calories. The food is consumed
at a rate of approximately 166 calories per min. (See Chart) The food is
not chewed well. They take a bite and swallow ...
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Prevention Of HIV Transmittance To Babies
Number of Words: 1097 / Number of Pages: 4
... that they don't want laws, policies or medical care imposed on
women merely as "vectors" who may transmit HIV to their infants.
The new guidelines recommend that all pregnant women should receive HIV
counseling and testing. These guidelines are aimed at helping pregnant women
know their HIV status early so that medical care, including zidovudine (Retrovir,
known as AZT, Burroughs Welcome Co., Research Triangle Park, NC), can be made
available. The new guidelines also reiterate previous federal health advisories
that say counseling should precede HIV testing. Physicians and other health
professional ...
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Schizophrenia
Number of Words: 1686 / Number of Pages: 7
... is an extremely complex mental illness. It is clear
that schizophrenia is a disease which makes it difficult for the person with the
illness to decide what is real and what is not (Swados 5). It is also clear
that this brain disease affects normal, intelligent people in all walks of life.
There are six concrete phrases that describe schizophrenia: it is a real
disease, has concrete and specific symptoms, is different from other mental
illnesses, is the result of flaws brain biochemistry, may be treated by specific
antipsychotic drugs, and is almost always treatable.
Scientist are unsure of the caus ...
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Treatments Of Huntington's Disease
Number of Words: 292 / Number of Pages: 2
... researchers found the protein it produces, a larger than normal molecule they called huntingtin that was unlike any protein previously identified. The question that they did not know was what either the healthy huntingtin protein or its aberrant form does in a cell. Recently, a team from Johns Hopkins University found a second protein called HAP-1, that attaches to the huntingtin molecule only in the brain. The characteristics of this second protein has an interesting feature- it binds much more tightly to defective huntingtin than to the healthy from, and it appears that this tightly bound comp ...
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How Alcohol May Affect Human Behaviour
Number of Words: 1068 / Number of Pages: 4
... alcohol is consumed (with food, in a social
gathering, with other drugs etc.)
The immediate effects of alcohol on an individual varies but can produce a wide
range of effects including: (2)
Loss of inhibitions.
Flushing and dizziness.
General impairment of brain and nervous system functions.
General loss of co-ordination.
Impairment of motor (movement) skills.
Staggering.
Slow reactions.
Blurred vision and slurred speech.
Aggression.
General impairment of senses (e.g. touch, sight, speech, etc.)
Vomiting.
Unconsciousness.
Child ...
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Psychology: Human Development
Number of Words: 1755 / Number of Pages: 7
... holds weight in the world of psychology.
Freud believed that human development was fueled by inner forces. He believed
the most powerful of all inner forces was our sexual being. Freud linked
everything with sex. This includes any bodily pleasure whatsoever. Thus, when
Freud discusses the sexual needs of children, they are not the same kind of
sexual needs that an adult would experience. Children experienced sexual
gratification in different ways. Sucking their thumbs or retaining their
excrement could be seen as sexual gratification for small children. Freud also
specified certain areas of our body as ...
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Why Exercise Is Important
Number of Words: 2835 / Number of Pages: 11
... eating right is an essential imperative for our individual well being. Not because we want to follow society's footsteps, but because it's the right thing to do.
This guide will address the reasons of why exercising is a physical imperative in the areas of diet, aerobic exercise, and weight training. With the expert advice from numerous research institutes nationwide, as well as first hand tips from the pros themselves, this guide will present the different exercising methods that will train your mind and body to better health. In addition, it will also talk about how to train yourself to better hea ...
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