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Adolescence
Number of Words: 1641 / Number of Pages: 6
... Change:
Between the ages of 9 and 15, almost all young people undergo a rapid
series of physiological changes, known as the adolescent growth spurt. These
hormonal changes include an acceleration in the body's growth rate; the
development of pubic hair; the appearance of axillary, or armpit, hair about
two years later. There are changes in the structure and functioning of the
reproductive organs; the mammary glands in girls; and development of the sweat
glands, which often leads to an outbreak of acne. In both sexes, these
physiological changes occur at different time ...
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Malpractice Or Poor Judgement?
Number of Words: 946 / Number of Pages: 4
... to worsen. Take for
example the United States, where surgeons annually pay an average of $75,000 on
insurance premiums. On top of these premiums, doctors who practice very
defensively add as much as $21 billion US to the health care bill every year.
Twenty percent of the tests prescribed by doctors were not necessary, but they
are the result of defensive practising by doctors who do not want to be held
liable.
This condition, already appearing in India, could become the downfall of
their present health care industry. Doctors are being forced to “look upon
every patient as a potential litigant. ...
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Alcohol: Most Used And Abused Drug
Number of Words: 2126 / Number of Pages: 8
... experience
drinking problems to some degree. Surveys have shown that more than one out of
three Americans have a personal friend or relative who has had a drinking
problem for ten years or longer. Almost two out of three Americans report that
they know someone who drinks too much. It is estimated that there are 18
million alcoholic or problem drinkers in the U.S. For every alcoholic there are
at least four other people who are affected by the alcoholic. This means that
in the U.S. there are at least seventy-two million other people dealing with the
disease somehow. Many people believe that al ...
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Euthanasia
Number of Words: 788 / Number of Pages: 3
... who
knows? It has been said that trials and pain make us stronger. Even if someone
is in pain, that pain could make them mentally stronger than if they give up and
take the easy way out. Life is pain, everyone goes through pain in their lives,
but most stick it out to the end, not giving up taking the easy way out. As
long as a person still is able to know what is happening around them and can
interact with the world around them it should be illegal for doctors to aid in
their suicide.
"Some say that doctor-aided death is widespread already, only covertly,
and that the Netherlands i ...
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Assisted Suicide
Number of Words: 1052 / Number of Pages: 4
... being intimidated or forced into feeling their early death would be a convenience to society. Section 241 is doubly flawed. It is not an especially effective drawback against those who seek to prey on the vulnerable, but at the same time it forces persons enduring intolerable suffering to exist in that state against their own wishes, thus denying them their right of self-determination as citizens in a free democracy. Competent, rational human beings must have the right to determine their own health care according to their personal wishes, values and beliefs, as long as such a determination does not ...
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Modern Technology And Medicine
Number of Words: 684 / Number of Pages: 3
... build more molecules such as DNA. But PNP separates anti-cancer
and other helpful agents , and destroys the therapy provided by those
agents. The goal was to create a drug which could inactivate PNP until
therapy for these agents were complete. A computer was used to create a
model of the protein in order to understand each aspect of this model .
the computers assessed the chemicals which could possibly fulfill the code
of this protein, and begin fitting it into the simulated molecule . when
it came to the real thing everything was accomplished the only problem was
that the lack of technology in t ...
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The Use Of Supplements Creatine, Androstenedione, And HMB
Number of Words: 2273 / Number of Pages: 9
... 60% of the Creatine is stored in its phosphorylated form, phosphocreatine also known as Creatine phosphate(1).
Approximately 95% of the body’s Creatine supply are found in the skeletal muscles. The remaining 5% are scattered throughout the rest of the body, with the highest concentrations in the heart, brains, and testes. A skeletal muscle itself does not produce Creatine, but utilizes the Creatine originating in the liver and kidneys. The human body gets most of the Creatine; it needs from food or dietary supplements. Creatine is easily absorbed from the intestinal tract into the blood stre ...
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Three Important Values In Nursing
Number of Words: 893 / Number of Pages: 4
... in the patient's/family's/loved one's shoes'.
In a recent "NurseWeek" article (see bibliography), Deepa Arora discussed the issue of instilling hope in patients with ALS or 'Lou Gehrig's Disease'. This disease, although it is fatal and causes ongoing deterioration of the body's ability to move, leaves the mind completely alert and does not affect intellectual function.
This article includes a quote from Ileane Mindel, RN, home liaison for the Les Turner ALS Foundation in Skokie, Ill. "It's not enough just to help ALS patients with their symptoms. The pain that patients experience, from bein ...
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Alcoholism
Number of Words: 880 / Number of Pages: 4
... of Northumbria at Newcastle informs alcohol’s main ingredients are ethyl and water, and is made by fermenting fruits and other grains (1).
The chance taken by alcoholics when he or she drinks while on the job can be a deadly choice. Alcoholics will take the chance of putting themselves, along with other co-workers in danger when intoxicated by alcohol. An alcoholics work performance is compromised because of the disease. Being intoxicated while on the job risks work efficiency. MEDSOC states that “there is an increased likelihood of mistakes, errors of judgement, increased accident pronenes ...
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Health
Number of Words: 1162 / Number of Pages: 5
... of behavior on health. The goals
of these specialists are: prevention of diseases, preservation of health,
and improved quality of health for those suffering from disability and disease.
What does it mean to be healthy? Health is a state of complete physical
, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease, illness
or infirmity. It is important to distinguish between disease and health.
Disease is the prognosis of a particular disorder with a specific cause and
characteristic symptoms. On the other hand, illness is the existence of disease
and, the individual's perceptio ...
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