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Meningitis
Number of Words: 682 / Number of Pages: 3
... by a variety of after-effects, some permenant and physically disabling and some less obvious, affecting the patient emotionally. Although many people will make a quick and complete recovery others will need a lot of support and care over the weeks and months following there illness. Unfortunately it is impossible to predict which after-effects if any an individual will suffer from. The after-effects are similar of the two forms of bacterial is considered much more serious then viral since it is fatal in about 1 out of 10 cases. But it is a mistake to assume that patients who have had viral ...
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Schitzophrenia And Other Mental Disorders
Number of Words: 1483 / Number of Pages: 6
... along with many of other
records of treatments to people inflicted with a disorder. This is mainly
because in the early 1900's people thought that people with disorders were just
stupid and they did not investigate further into the matter. The quanity of
people that have a disorder is unknown. There is an estimated guess that 15% of
the U.S. population has some sort of disorder but that is not factual. This is
because the survey people only can estimate from the people who check
theirselves into a institution, the ones who do so make up 3% of the 15%
estimation. The U.S. in 1990 spent an estima ...
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Hemophilia
Number of Words: 949 / Number of Pages: 4
... of the factor IX - also known as Christmas disease. This protein deficiency of causes the blood to not be able to form a firm clot, and there a person who gets bruised or cut, keeps on bleeding. Not more, but longer. There are also other blood clotting disorders such as von Willebrand disease which can affects both sexes.
is the most common hereditary blood disorder, affecting approximately one in ten thousand people, almost all male. People with suffer from abnormal blood clotting. In c's, clotting cannot occur and bleeding is prolonged. They also have times of painful internal bleeding in t ...
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Nutrition And You
Number of Words: 1606 / Number of Pages: 6
... that it be practiced regularly and that it be
practiced in accompaniment with a healthy diet. It is also desirable to
practice more that one sport as different sports exercise different areas of the
body. Carbohydrates, proteins, and fats are the sources of energy for the body.
The contained energy is expressed in calories. There are 9 calories per gram in
fat and there are about 4 calories per gram in proteins and carbohydrates .
Carbohydrates are the main source of energy for the body. This energy is mostly
used for muscle movement and digestion of food. Some sources of carbohydrates
are : grain ...
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Abortion
Number of Words: 1012 / Number of Pages: 4
... believe can only be justified to prevent the death or extremely serious injury to the mother. Unfortunately, there is no consensus of when that event occurs.
Many people believe that happens at conception. That is, a just-fertilized egg is a full human being and should be protected as such. Some hold this belief because of their religious faith. Their religion teaches that a soul enters the fertilized egg at the instant of conception, and the cell becomes a human person at that time because of the presence of the soul.
Others point out that shortly after conception, a unique DNA code is formed ...
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Euthanasia
Number of Words: 1913 / Number of Pages: 7
... Euthanasia is morally
and ethically wrong and should be banned in these United States. Modern
medicine has evolved by leaps and bounds recently, euthanasia resets these
medical advances back by years and reduces today's Medical Doctors to
administrators of death.
Euthanasia defined
The term Euthanasia is used generally to refer to an easy or painless
death. Voluntary euthanasia involves a request by the dying patient or that
person's legal representative. Passive or negative euthanasia involves not
doing something to prevent death—that is, allowing someone to die; active or
positive euthanasia i ...
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The Problem With Medicare
Number of Words: 1367 / Number of Pages: 5
... States, Al Gore, wrote in a letter stating that social security funds are not being depleted. Gore said that, "the allegationsto the contrary have been circulated by certain organizations as a money-making scheme for some time." (Gore Letter). Vice President Gore tries to show theses allegations are untrue by explaining how social security works. In this letter, Vice President Gore cleared up the allegations by writing that, "When Social Security taxes are collected, they are credited to the Social Security trust funds with government security, perhaps the safest investment in the United States ...
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Psychoanalysis And Treatment
Number of Words: 2217 / Number of Pages: 9
... of her thoughts and feelings.
Freud refined Breuer's method by conceptualizing theories about it and, using these theories, telling his patients through interpretations what was going on inside the unconscious part of their minds, thus making the unconscious become conscious. Many hysterias were cured this way, and in 1895, Breuer and Freud published their findings and theories in Studies in Hysteria.
CLASSIC PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY
Traditional psychoanalytical theory states that all human beings are born with instinctual drives that are constantly active even though a person is usually not conscious o ...
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Discovering Sicke Cell Anemia
Number of Words: 1315 / Number of Pages: 5
... is actually protected from a severe form
of malaria. This helped the children in countries where malaria was a problem,
to be able to survive against that disease. What happened to those children?
They grew up, had their own children and ended up passing the gene for sickle
cell anemia onto their offspring.
This disease is a hereditary blood disorder that affects the red blood cell.
Red blood cells contain a protein called hemoglobin which transports oxygen from
your lungs to every part of your body. Hemoglobin's oxygen carrying ability is
essential for living but if there is a structural ...
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A Pro-Choice Argument
Number of Words: 2114 / Number of Pages: 8
... is a huge financial burden on a woman as well as her family. Many women lack sexual education, such as which contraceptives are available to them, where to buy them, and how to pay for birth control, which can be very expensive.(Small steps are being made to help with the latter problem. Recently, Maryland became the first state to offer insurance coverage for contraceptives.1) These women who are uninformed about the family planning options open to them are generally the same women who are from lower class societies, and therefore lack the money required for raising a child. Prenatal care is extrem ...
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