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Term Papers on Health and Medicine
Teenage Suicide
Number of words: 935 - Number of pages: 4.... tries to commit suicide while they are attempting
to kill thierselves they realize that they actually dont want to die. They
really do want to live. On the average, a teenager takes his or her own
life every one and a half hours, making about one hundred and thirty
deaths a week, making suicide the second leading cause of death among
teenagers.
Three major aspects of teenage suicide are (1) what causes teens to
make this choice to take their own lives. (2) How you may be able to detect
if someone you know might be going to commit suicide and (3) and how you .....
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The Different Faces Of Yoga
Number of words: 1417 - Number of pages: 6.... The god is not a creator of the world or of mankind. He does not sit in judgment of mankind, nor does he punish them for their sins. Rather the god of yoga is "a special person untouched by misery, desire, or action and its results... He is the teacher of the ancient teachers" (Nikhilananda 680). The goal of the yogi, one who studies yoga, is to reach the state of pure intelligence, which is the soul's true essence, by suppressing all other mental activities (Nikhilananda 680). In order to reach this state, The yogi fixes himself in an immobile bodily .....
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Being A Virologist
Number of words: 551 - Number of pages: 3.... cold, just vaccines.
I don't know, and could not find that much information on exactly
how virologists find cures and vaccines. But I know that they need
antibodies to make these cures. And there are two primary ways of making
these antibodies. One, they can take them from patient zero. Patient
zero would be where the virus originated from.
Two, they could inject into an animal like a horse. If the animal,
horse creates antibodies to fight off the virus, we take some of its blood.
And from the plasma we extract the antibodies. Here is a method used .....
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Ebola
Number of words: 1298 - Number of pages: 5.... with infected blood,
infected body fluids, or through sexual contact. Even after a person recovers
completely from Ebola, it may stay in the semen for up to seven weeks. In the
African outbreaks it has also been transmitted by the reuse of needles because
the health care systems are so under financed. Ebola wasn't thought to be an
airborne virus, but recent studies by the US Army Medical Research Institute of
Infectious Diseases and the CDC found that monkeys showed Ebola like symptoms
after being exposed to aerosolized Ebola. The studies also found tha .....
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Assumptions And Principles Underlying Standards For Care Of The Terminally Ill
Number of words: 1137 - Number of pages: 5.... a curable disease and the
other with relieving the symptoms resulting from the relentless progress of an
incurable illness. There must be openness, interchange, and overlap between the
two systems so that the patient receives continuous appropriate care. The
patient should not be subjected to aggressive treatment that offers no hope of
being effective in curing or controlling the disease and may only cause further
distress. Obviously, the clinician must be on the alert for any shifts that may
occur in the course of a terminal illness, which make the patient a .....
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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Number of words: 865 - Number of pages: 4.... into the bronchial tubes. The bronchial tubes or
passages, look like trees, and branch out into smaller and smaller airways
the further they go further into the lungs. All along the breathing
passages, tiny protective hairs called cilia help keep the dust and other
pollutants from entering your lungs. These airways end in tiny air sacs
known as alveoli. The alveoli transfer oxygen from the air you inhale
directly into the bloodstream.
Chronic bronchitis is one of the major lung diseases that underlie COPD.
Chronic bronchitis often develops in people over .....
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Multiple Personalities: Do They Really Exist?
Number of words: 1521 - Number of pages: 6.... realizing it. This
can account for memory loss and time loss in the primary personality, who
often does not have access to the memories of the other personalities. A
common misconception among the general public is the confusion of MPD with
the disease of schizophrenia. Schizophrenics do NOT have distinct
personalities, rather, they have hallucinations of voices outside their
heads. Schizophrenia is caused by brain malfunctions and can be treated
with drugs, whereas suffers of MPD cannot because MPD is an almost purely
psychological disorder. MPD seems to be c .....
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Euthanasia In Canada
Number of words: 1328 - Number of pages: 5.... self-dignity, personal choice, economic well-being, happiness,
family support, and individual rights.
The word euthanasia simply means good death, but has come to mean
causing death with intent, whether by doing something (commission), or by
omitting something(omission). Euphemisms of the pro-euthanasia movement,
include "right to die", and "death with dignity". The term "passive
euthanasia" is often applied to the withdrawal of useless treatment that is
onlyprolonging the dying of a person. This needs to be differentiated from
withdrawing of somethi .....
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