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Term Papers on Health and Medicine
Schizophrenia
Number of words: 1209 - Number of pages: 5.... Schizophrenics may believe that someone is following them, or planning to harm them. Schizophrenics believe that others can hear their thoughts, also known as Broadcasting, and even change them. ex...hear their thoughts, insert thoughts into their minds, or control their feelings, actions or impulses. Patients might think they are Jesus, Napoleon, or Franklin D. Roosevelt. @ (American Psychiatric Association Annual >90 page 1)
Pregnant women who experience an immune reaction that presents danger to their unborn children, this reaction raises sharply the rat .....
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Angina Pectoris
Number of words: 5928 - Number of pages: 22.... constantly, and yet, coronary heart disease
remains the number one killer in the world.
The media today concentrates intensely on drug and alcohol abuse,
homicides, AIDS and so on. What a lot of people are not realizing is that
coronary heart disease actually accounts for about 80% of all sudden deaths.
In fact, the number of deaths from heart disease approximately equals to
the number of deaths from cancer, accidents, chronic lung disease,
pneumonia and influenza, and others, COMBINED.
One of the symptoms of coronary heart disease is angina pector .....
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The Safety Of Blood
Number of words: 1528 - Number of pages: 6.... for
today's society. Even though one in every five people will need a blood
transfusion and the risk of contracting a disease such as AIDS is practically
negligible, people are still concerned that the blood that they receive may have
harmful or deadly diseases and that today's blood supply is not "safe."
However, "safe" means different things for different people. For some,
safe is an absolute security from any danger. This is an extreme viewpoint,
though, because most people realize that one can never be completely safe.
Another, and more popular .....
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Birth Control At Schools
Number of words: 472 - Number of pages: 2.... high schools may have a negative effect on the way young adults view sex. In high school, young adult's emotions and feelings are still very immature; therefore, passing out condoms may be promoting teenagers to have sex. Parents think giving free condoms to children sends mixed messages on what to think about sex education or how to have sex.
Promoting safe sex and distributing free condoms in high schools are great ways to control the rampant spread of sexually transmitted diseases and high levels of teen childbirth. Whether it is a lack of knowledge or .....
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Vegetarianism
Number of words: 1867 - Number of pages: 7.... weight, using it as a diet. In each case it can be a healthy or a harmful way to eat. The benefits or harm of is associated with two factors: education about nutritional needs coupled with food choices. Even groups like athletes can thrive on a vegetarian diet if they are well educated to the bodies' dietary needs and are well aware of the limit-less choices available on a vegetarian diet. What follows in this essay, is first: a brief, yet insightful look at the vegetarian diet (the nutritional aspect) and then: an analysis of how this diet may, in fact, b .....
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Issues To Consider In Deaf And Hard-Of-Hearing Patients
Number of words: 2518 - Number of pages: 10.... issues, assistive devices, interview techniques and sources of further information. Guidelines for assessment of deaf and hard-of-hearing patients are provided in Table 1. Table 2 provides suggestions for conducting interviews with these patients.
Illustrative Case
A 60-year-old deaf woman, a native user of American Sign Language, presented as a new referral. During visits with her previous physician, she had always communicated by using her daughter as an interpreter. The referral physician arranged for a certified interpreter and then called the new .....
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The Fabry Disease
Number of words: 331 - Number of pages: 2.... (intra - within, epidermal - outer layer) spaces filled with blood.
Places (vessel wall) where there is no telangiectasis are filled with deposits
of glycolipids. These deposits are also found in the heart, muscles, renal
tubules and glomeruli, central nervous system, spleen, liver, bone marrow, lymph
nodes and cornea. Retarded growth, delayed puberty and ocular abnormalities are
also common symptoms. These symptoms are mostly fond in males because they
display full-blown syndrome, while females displays a partial form.
Diagnosis
They firsts take a uri .....
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Vegetarian Diet
Number of words: 2410 - Number of pages: 9.... vegetarianism, however, dates back much further. The Greek philosopher Pythagoras, considered by many to be the father of vegetarianism, encouraged a non-meat diet among his followers as a diet that was the most natural and healthful (Messina 3).
A excludes the consumption of meat, and can be exercised by people for a number of reasons. The largest majority of individuals chose vegetarianism for health related reasons. For example, someone with an ulcer might be prescribed a strict diet of vegetables in order to promote the healing process. Or someone with a dan .....
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