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Term Papers on Health and Medicine
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Number of words: 1533 - Number of pages: 6.... Particularly
when exposedto stimuli concretely or symbolically reminiscent of the trauma; (e)
symptoms lasting at least one month. (Famolaro, Maternal and Child
Posttraumatic... 28)".
Children are now becoming realized as significant sufferers of
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder is particularly
bad for children under the age of 11, because they lack many of the skills
needed to protect themselves. Furthermore, this vulnerability is enhanced when
the child is exposed to any maltreatment. According to recent studies,
"Posttraumat .....
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Prenatal Diagnosis
Number of words: 439 - Number of pages: 2.... same genetic makeup as the fetus because it is of fetal origin. Chorionic villus sampling will detect up to 99% of chromosome abnormalities. Some follow-up ultrasounds are recommended at 16 weeks of pregnancy. The amount of risk is the same as in amniocentesis.
Amniocentesis
Amniocentesis is performed at 15-20 weeks of pregnancy. It will detect chromosome abnormalities and other certain genetic disorders. This test can detect up to 95% of neural tube disorders such as spina bifida. It is done by inserting a needle near but not through the woman's naval into .....
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To The Victims Of ADHD
Number of words: 342 - Number of pages: 2.... are measured and entered into a computer. The computer provides a signal, such as a light or tone. This "feedback" is supposed to teach the child to increase certain kinds of brain-wave activity and decrease other types. Training usually involves 40-80 sessions, each lasting 40 minutes or more. This "treatment" costs $3,000 to $6,000. The studies which suggest impressive results for EEG Biofeedback are seriously flawed. Sample sizes were small and appropriate control groups were not used to determine if any results are due to maturation or an "expectancy" effect. .....
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Kroeger's "AIDS And The Girl Next Door"
Number of words: 795 - Number of pages: 3.... and age and 14hr workday could easily explain the latter. Fatigue was not suspicious, similarly the rush didn’t seem to present a serious danger. Therefore, the “news” struck her and threw into a state of a shock: “My hands and feet went ice cold. I thought I would lose control of my bowels. I stood up and started pacing like an animal in a cage, looking out the window.”
Immediately other thoughts entered her mind, it can’t be happening. It must be some careless mistake made by irresponsible lab-staff. Disbelief in the reality and denial of what is happeni .....
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Diabetes Type I
Number of words: 1524 - Number of pages: 6.... needs, they cannot survive without these injections.
OVERVIEW OF DIABETES TYPE I
What is diabetes type I?
In order to understand the disease we firstly need to know about insulin.
Insulin is a hormone. The role of insulin is to convert the food we eat
into various useful substances, discarding everything that is wasteful.
It is the job of insulin to see that the useful substances are put to best
use for our well-being. The useful substances are used for building cells,
are made ready for immediate expenditure as energy and also stored for
later energy expend .....
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Abortion Life Or Death: Who Chooses?
Number of words: 4447 - Number of pages: 17.... been accused of having a 19th Century approach to life in the last third of the 20th Century.
But who in reality is using arguments of a bygone Century? It is an incontrovertible fact of biological science - Make no Mistake - that from the moment of conception, a new human life has been created. Only those who allow their emotional passion to overide their knowledge, can deny it: only those who are irrational or ignorant of science, doubt that when a human sperm fertilizes a human ovum a new human being is created. A new human being who carries genes in its c .....
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Prolonged Preservation Of The Heart Prior To Transplantation
Number of words: 1939 - Number of pages: 8.... Because of this preservation restriction, the donor heart is ultimately
given to someone whose tissues do not match up as well, so there is a
greatly increased chance for rejection of the organ by the recipient. As
far as the man in Oregon goes, he will probably not receive a donor heart
before his own expires.
Currently, when a heart is being prepared for transplantation, it
is simply submerged in an isotonic saline ice bath in an attempt to stop
all metabolic activity of that heart. This cold submersion technique is
adequate for only four hours. .....
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The Ethics Of Somatic Cell Cloning
Number of words: 1088 - Number of pages: 4.... failed to do so.
The Medical Benefits:
Somatic cell cloning has many potential benefits:
1. Somatic cell cloning provides a way for completely sterile individuals, (those not capable of reproducing) to reproduce.
2. Somatic cell cloning may provide valuable basic research and spin off technologies related to reproduction and development.
3. Cloning technologies could enable the development of donor organs that will not be rejected by the transplant patient.
The benefits of these technologies are obvious. Many people will benefit from the implementation of t .....
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